Withdrawal of Exp 501; Amendment to Exp 502 on Sun 27 July

Zilchster SG

Saw the poster at the bus stop today.

Express Service 501 will be withdrawn.

Express Service 502 will be amended to ply from Boon Lay and looping at Marina Centre/Temasek Ave.

Tibs 106 will be also be amended as stated in the poster.

off_service SG

Hi forumers,

As I understand, the changes to services 106, 501 and 502 are together in this poster.

Zilchster SG

In the poster itself...

they suggest alternative bus routes...

and they mentioned amended svc 106

TIB1186Z SG

Ha! Expected it, too bad not both express 501 and 502, but they duplicate each other anyway. It is more appropraiate now to amend to Suntec City instead of charging express fares for rather non-express sectors like from Orchard to Boon Lay

I think the poster is by Transitlink, those blue ones with the bus stop pole and blue clouds behind, is it? Its quite some time since I saw TIBS and SBST sharing the same poster. Anyway, where will svc 106 be amended to? Suntec City? When does it take effect?

798 SG

KNN! Not again! Exp 502 will becomes crowded as the time comes.
Who would want to pay more money standing with the crowd in the bus the whole journey?

TIB1186Z SG

Of course lah, saving express 502 is like a backup.SBST is trying to force people onto the NEL, and what's more, its kinda of faster and definitely cheaper the last time I tried it. I think that perhaps express 511 and 512 will be withdrawn next, look at the pathetic freq. board

SBS9818A SG

Yes. Followed by Sv. 85, however Express 502 should be converted to a trunk service after extension. Good old SBST ripping off passengers again. Expect to see Mk IIs, O405s and 3-axle LOs on Sv. 502 from now on since HGDEP will no more control Sv. 502 (there goes 9888Y!)

Zilchster SG

The poster for the Amendment of Exp 501 and Exp 502 has disappeared from the bus stops today.

tranquilice SG

Disappeared?! Shocked

Good to see Express 502 to loop at Marina Centre, however it should be converted to a trunk service and skip Holland Rd so as not to duplicate service 7.

xin1jun2 SG

IMHO:
502 should be withdrawn totally. i mean there is the MRT from Boon Lay to City hall right?

and there is service 7 running along side it all the way till Clementi.

who would want to sit express bus when got MRT and svc 7??

ZYX

off_service SG

I think SBS Transit is taking a move back and thinking twice about the withdrawl of Express services. They wouldn’t have spent money on notices and take it away one day after the put up the notices.

SBS9818A SG

Kai Guan said SBST did not display notices at all for Sv. 27 and Sv. 163, or removed them after less than a week, they were extended nevertheless.

tranquilice SG

Do you mean the extension of services 27 and 163 to Hougang Central and Sengkang respectively?

SBST did put up such notices, do you want to see them now? Find the posters on extension of service 27 in Changi Airport T1 and T2 basement berth. They are still there.

SBS9818A SG

Yes, but my friend said they were removed a day or week after, I will hunt for Sv. 27 poster.

tranquilice SG

Hurry up and hunt the service 27 posters before they are gone.

Nope, when I went to Sengkang for the LRT ride in February, the posters are displayed in the interchange and along the roads affected.

tranquilice SG

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tranquilice SG

Links to the posters.

Service 27: http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/whatsnew_29dec2002a.asp

Service 163: http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/whatsnew_29dec2002b.asp

SBS9810X SG

Oh gosh!Where will 9888y be!

off_service SG

Most would guess service 7, another popular service from HGDEP. However, there might be more services going to HGDEP, as after the rationlization exercise, HGDEP would have more space to contain more buses.

Not only 9800A and 9888Y, how about the Tridents???

SBS9818A SG

Possibly deployed on Sv. 7, or some other HGDEP service worthy of Tridents. Sv. 80 will get several Tridents.