There’ll Be a Reduction of Bus & MRT Services, With Some Bus Services Suspended Completely

If you’ve taken public transport in the last few days, you’d notice that there are now less people.

But how much less, you ask.

LTA has compiled the figures, and it’s indeed much lesser than you’d have expected.

Less Bus & Train Ridership

According to LTA, there are 71% fewer bus passengers and 75% fewer train passengers since the Circuit Breaker started. With fewer passengers, LTA is going to reduce the frequency of buses and trains.

Reader Bao: Wait, isn’t the idea of having fewer passengers to fulfil the safe distancing measures?

Well, yes, but LTA will ensure that there would still be enough space for people to maintain safe distancing even with the lower frequency.

So, what services are affected?

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Affected Bus Services

The changes to buses would start from 15 April 2020 (which is tomorrow).

The adjustment of bus frequency isn’t revealed, but a list of bus services have been suspended, most of which are services that serve the CBD crowd and services that go to reactional service.

Here’s the list:

LTA  will be working closely with bus operators on the adjustment of other bus services.

Affected MRT Lines

For MRT, the changes would start from 17 April 2020 (Friday) instead.

Before COVID-19 disrupt our lives, the North-South, East-West, North East, Circle and Downtown Lines (i.e. all the lines we take daily) operate at train frequencies of no more than three minutes during peak periods and around five minutes during off-peak periods.

That would be changed to no more than five minutes during peak periods and around 10 minutes during off-peak periods.

In other words, you’d have to wait longer for the next train.

Also, the last trains would be 30 minutes earlier.

Check out this handy chart for the exact timing:

For the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL), there is no change to its frequency but its operating hours will be from 6:30am to 8pm instead of until 10pm.

And lastly, for LRT, only the Sengkang-Punggol LRT would be affected; it’ll run only on a single loop during off-peak hours and would end service 30 minutes earlier.

So if you somehow need to take any of these affected public transport, do note the changes.