SINGAPORE - Commuters heading home late at night will have more transport options from Friday, as two new private bus services are set to ply one-way routes from the city to the heartland during the wee hours on Fridays, Saturdays and the eve of public holidays.
The new night bus services will both start plying from the bus stop opposite the MAS Building in Shenton Way. Buses for the two new services will operate at 45-minute intervals, with the first bus leaving Shenton Way at 11.30pm and the last bus leaving at 2.30am in the morning.In comparison, SMRT’s six NightRider services previously operated at 20 to 30-minute intervals, while SBST’s six Nite Owl services operated at 40-minute intervals.
A&S Transit told The Straits Times that its NS-1 and NS-2 services will each be served by three MAN A22 diesel buses that the firm had acquired from SMRT in 2021. Each bus has a seating capacity of 43 passengers, with no standing passengers allowed. Demand for the public night bus services was low even before the Covid-19 pandemic, LTA had said, and the withdrawal of the services would free up finite resources that could then be reallocated to meet new demand.