Boon to 100,000 on SBS buses daily

I REFER to the recent letters to the Forum on bus bays versus linear bus stops.

As a public bus-transport service provider, SBS Transit would like to share our views on this subject.

A survey done by us has shown that 9 per cent of journey time is spent on buses trying to exit bus bays. On the average, our buses run some 2.1 million passenger trips every day and this translates into unnecessary extended time spent on the road for commuters.

Therefore, we welcome the Land Transport Authority (LTA)'s initiative to try out linear bus stops at Jalan Eunos, which are likely to benefit some 100,000 commuters travelling along this stretch of road on our services daily.

Over the past few years, we have partnered LTA as well as the Traffic Police to run public- education programmes that encourage motorists to give way to buses exiting bus bays.

These efforts have included rewarding motorists who give way with petrol vouchers and other goodies like cameras.

On our own initiative, we have also placed 'Give Way to Buses' messages on the rear of some 100 buses, produced and distributed car decals as well as installed LED lights on the buses' rear exterior to provide a more visible signal of the drivers' intention to exit bus bays.

We will continue with our efforts and will organise another public-education campaign in the coming months.

Tammy Tan (Ms)
Director, Corporate Communications
SBS Transit Ltd