SINGAPORE: SBS Transit will be adding some 200 train
trips to its MRT services to cope with an expected rise in
ridership during the Formula One weekend from September
23-25.
Train operating hours for the North East Line (NEL)
will be extended.
Waiting time will be shortened to five minutes from
after the evening peak hour to midnight on Friday and from noon to
midnight on Saturday and Sunday.
After midnight, trains will run at a frequency of six minutes on
all the three evenings.
For Punggol and Sengkang LRT, the last LRT train will depart only
after the last NEL train arrives at their respective
stations.
Some bus services will also be affected by road closures due to the
Formula One race week.
From September 21 to 26, 28 bus services will be temporarily
diverted to travel on alternative routes due to road closures in
the Marina Centre area.
- CNA /ls