Second UK transport operator wins bid to run bus services in Singapore
From: CNA
By: Kenneth Lim
Date: 23/11/15
SINGAPORE: London's largest bus operator Go-Ahead Group has won the bid to operate bus services in Pasir Ris and Punggol, announced the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Monday (Nov 23).
The Loyang bus package is the second contract put up for bidding in the Government's new bus contracting model. Go-Ahead Group is the second bid winner from the UK, after London-based Tower Transit won the bid for the first bus package in May.
Go-Ahead will operate the new Loyang bus depot from December. The company will run 25 services from Changi Airport and Changi Village bus terminals as well as, as well as the Pasir Ris and Punggol bus interchanges. The services will terminate at Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Sengkang, Tampines and Yishun bus interchanges as well as New Bridge Road and Upper East Coast bus terminals. These services will be rolled out in two tranches from the third quarter of next year.
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LTA Awards Second Bus Package to Go-Ahead Group Plc
News Release 23/11/15
1. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the contract for the second bus package to The Go-Ahead Group Plc. Starting from the third quarter of 2016, Go-Ahead, which runs bus and rail services in the U.K., will operate the Loyang bus package of 25 bus services1. These bus services will be operated out of the new Loyang Bus Depot which Go-Ahead will manage. In addition, Go-Ahead will manage two bus interchanges - Pasir Ris Bus Interchange and Punggol Bus Interchange. Go-Ahead will receive an estimated total fee of $497.7 million2 over the five-year contract period.
2. Go-Ahead has 26 years of experience operating both public bus and rail services in the U.K. The company is the largest bus operator in London, running 24% of the city’s bus routes, with about 2,300 buses from 17 depots across the city and employing about 7,000 staff under a similar bus contracting model.
3. Commuters can expect higher bus service levels as all bus services will have scheduled headways of no more than 15 minutes for both directions during the morning and evening peak periods, with at least half of them having scheduled headways of no more than 10 minutes. Of these, the feeder services will run at intervals of six to eight minutes.
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