GEYLANG Bahru residents working in Suntec City and Shenton Way can hop on a new premium bus service from Friday and get there in less than half an hour.
Premium service 546, operated by SMRT, will ply Geylang Bahru, Upper Boon Keng Road, Lorong 1 Geylang and Sims Avenue before heading straight to the city.
It will stop along Nicoll Highway at Suntec City and One Raffles Link as well as Clifford Pier and Shenton Way, cutting travel time by almost 20 minutes by doing away with the need to transfer buses, said SMRT.
Premium service 546 has 13 stops in total from Geylang Bahru to Shenton Way, clocking 25 minutes for the entire journey.
The new service will make two trips every morning, calling at the first stop at Blk 73 at Geylang Bahru at 8.25am and 8.35am on Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays.
Commuters will be charged a flat fare of $3 and each bus can take up to 41 sitting passengers. No standing is allowed.
SMRT's new service adds to the growing number of premium bus services here, as part of plans under the land transport review to provide more comfortable and direct journeys for commuters.
Including the new service, SMRT and its subsidiary BusPlus now offer seven premium services.
Read the full report in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
same too for comfort premier service buses...they started first...and based on their feedback...business is so good that they'll introduce more of such buses
have'nt we noticed many taxi drivers chiong each other...Q long long...now our pie is so small
so what can we do to counter these pirate buses?...go back to touting?
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same too for comfort premier service buses...they started first...and based on their feedback...business is so good that they'll introduce more of such buses
have'nt we noticed many taxi drivers chiong each other...Q long long...now our pie is so small
so what can we do to counter these pirate buses?...go back to touting?
Bro, we can encounter this by doing the same thing, said $4 per head from Geylang Baru to Suntec.
exactly...why cant we also be enterprising & compete with those buses
i mean we too can go to their pax waiting area (e.g. at Tg Rhu long pax Q for pte buses)...and we display "Suntec $2/pax - max 4 pax"...paid cab pool
cheaper than buses ...thats competition right?
bros around serangoon ave 1/2 also can do same or any other loc where these buses rob us of our paxs
so are we touting? we dun overcharge mah right!!
this's one way we get a bit of our pie back
any comments?
I dun think so that we r touting, mayb lta might think so. In fact we r helping the govt to encourage the public to give up their vehicle and take public transport. By the way is Taxi public transport ???
Im just waiting for LTA to say that taxis are not conisdered as a public transport. If they dare to say that then I can choose which passenger to pick up.
They should bloody enforce this on all Malaysian kup kias coming into Singapore ! It's mandatory for Malaysian workers coming into Singapore by motorcycles 125cc be no longer possible.
They should be serviced by comfort delgro and SMRT private buses !
They have to park somewhere at senoko and pay for a $6 ride anywhere on the island !
Despite of government rulings of pollution compliance Euro-4 and lower emission standards. Lorries, Malaysian registered cars, vans and motorcycles does not or fail to meet such local pollution compliances standards !
They will bring Tampines, Bedok and Yishun residents to Shenton Way.
By Yeo Ghim Lay
TAMPINES, Bedok and Yishun residents who work in Shenton Way can look forward to six new premium bus services on Monday.
Three of the services will ply different parts of Tampines, and two will serve Yishun. The remaining service starts at Bedok Reservoir Road.
Premium services 552, 553, 554, 558, 559 and 585 will make one trip each during the morning peak hour, leaving from their respective starting points from 7.45am to 8am.
All six services will end at Fullerton Road before 9am, after making stops along Robinson Road.
Commuters will be charged a $3.60 fare or each trip on five of the services, and $3.30 for service 585, which travels a shorter distance.
The services will run Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays.
With the new additions from SBS Transit, there will be a total of 64 premium buses services running in Singapore from Monday.
Thirty-nine of these will be operated by Comfortdelgro Group - 34 by SBS Transit and five by Comfortdelgro, the group's private bus subsidiary.
time we taxi drivers must think of some innovative ways to overcome these competitors i.e. premium buses
now they're starting on morning periods...very soon evenings will be in their agenda
otherwise one day will come all taxi drivers will chiong each other due to lack of paxs...if not already happening...ask those on morning shift & they'll tell you lots of paxs queing for pte buses
to me all pte buses or premium buses that ply away from the main roads are like 'pow hong chai' (pirate taxi/bus)...yet they have the blessing of garmen knn
any inputs???
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If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
time we taxi drivers must think of some innovative ways to overcome these competitors i.e. premium buses
now they're starting on morning periods...very soon evenings will be in their agenda
otherwise one day will come all taxi drivers will chiong each other due to lack of paxs...if not already happening...ask those on morning shift & they'll tell you lots of paxs queing for pte buses
to me all pte buses or premium buses that ply away from the main roads are like 'pow hong chai' (pirate taxi/bus)...yet they have the blessing of garmen knn
any inputs???
All this premium buses r belongs 2 d same ppl, that's y they have d blessing from d "undergarment".
