SMRT to launch double-deckers for 10 bus services

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Commuters on board bus service 972 will have a roomier ride from Sunday when three new double-decker buses start plying the route.

The three buses will be the first of 201 double-deckers by SMRT to be deployed.

In the next three months, more double-deckers will be introduced to nine other bus services — 106, 188, 190, 850E, 951E, 960, 963, 966 and 969 — that ply longer and heavily used routes, said SMRT in a press release yesterday.

The deployment follows road tests, tree pruning and personnel training. The double-deckers are expected to ease crowding during peak hours, particularly on longer routes with high passenger loads.

The double-decker buses are part of the 573 buses to be added by 2016.

Of the 573 buses, 218 are funded by the S$1.1 billion Bus Service Enhancement Programme, which was started by the Government in 2012 to improve bus services.