Introduction of Service 68

Zilchster SG

Introduction of new Service 68 to serve Tampines and Industrial Park A for a trial period of 3 months...

Details

www.sbstransit.com.sg

off_service SG

Service 68

Peak hour service from Tampines to Tampines Industrial Park A

Operating hours:

0630 hrs to 0930 hrs
1630 hrs to 2000 hrs

Service 68 will be introduced on 16 June 2003 as a trial service for 3 months.

Airbus330Captain SG

Hmmm sounds great , looking forward to see this service .

tranquilice SG

Originally posted by off_service:
[b]Service 68

Peak hour service from Tampines to Tampines Industrial Park A

Operating hours:

0630 hrs to 0930 hrs
1630 hrs to 2000 hrs

Service 68 will be introduced on 16 June 2003 as a trial service for 3 months.[/b]

Note that this is only a weekday service, with frequency of 20 to 25 minutes.

The service skips one pair of stops along Ave 5 (outside and opposite stadium) and another one pair of stops along Ave 1 (near and opposite SAFRA).

tranquilice SG

The service is introduced to serve the people working in Industrial Park A to and fro the interchange. It only acts as a supplementary to services 22 and 293 along Ave 4 during the weekday peak hours.

TIB1186Z SG

Hey, wanna guess the buses that will be deployed?

I admit there's no challenge in it, but definitely Scania L113s OAC/CAC and/or Volvo B10M Mk IIIs. Sigh, another new service operating those usual buses again, how good if we can see 0405s on them new services in Tampines, maybe PA 0405s ? That will be interesting.

off_service SG

Scania N113

xin1jun2 SG

er maybe become another 37 bus. just grab any OAC or CAC it can get its hands on

ZYX

SBS9818A SG

Yes, possible, just grab any free bus that BNDEP has. I would expect Scania N113CRBs, though, not Mk IIIs, especially the NAC ones.

tranquilice SG

Is the service full-air-con or partial-air-con?

off_service SG

SBST did not mention it. They are very clever here. They could, like what others mentioned, grab any available bus.

SBS9818A SG

So it would be damn funny to see Sv. 68 using a CAC N113 one day and the next a NAC. Anyway I think it would grab any available buses from other services as it's only operational during peak hours.

SBS9819Y SG

Who knows 68 may be a full non air-con service! That's why they dare not say!

I remember when 87 and 88 were introduced, SBS did mention that they are partial air-con, though all full fleet of air-con buses were used after about 3 months. I still remember that day when I tried to take 9888, but failed! I got a 2nd batch VO instead and when I saw a non air-con N113, I counted myself lucky for being able to enjoy air-con on the ride to Hougang Ave 3.

off_service SG

Today is the first day of service. How is the fleet like? Anyone who knows please tell us more. Thanks. Mr. Green

SBS9818A SG

Hmm, Superbus can you update us on this? I believe the bus stop inside Tampines Industrial Park A is just a little bay, a pavement and a pole with 68 on it?

Airbus330Captain SG

I know 700P was one of the buses yesterday, I check out later on 68 today .

SBS9818A SG

Hmm, they used Mk IIIs from BNDEP? Odd, we were all expecting Scania N113CRB buses.

tranquilice SG

Read in the newspaper, the workers in the industrial estate have keep asking SBST to provide a bus service there since 1994. They finally get the service after 9 years of waiting.....

SBS9818A SG

Which newspaper?

tranquilice SG

Shin Min Daily News, last week.