City Direct Services

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Introduction

City Direct Services (CDS) are express bus routes between selected residential estates and the city. They were introduced under the Bus Services Enhancement Programme (BSEP) to benefit commuters travelling to the city with improved connectivity,

9 new City Direct bus services ply from the housing estates of Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Bukit Batok, Eunos, Hougang, Jurong East, Sembawang, Sengkang and West Coast to the Central Business District (CBD). With limited stops and the usage of expressways, commuters using these services would have comparable journey time to taking a connecting bus or LRT service and transferring to the MRT into the city.

For a start, all the nine new City Direct services made two one-way trips on weekday mornings from the respective housing estates towards the CBD. Similarly, two one-way trips took commuters back home from the city in the evenings. More trips have since been added to the bus services depending on the demand for the services. The bus services operate on weekday peak periods excluding public holidays.

The move is in line with the Transport Minister’s announcement at the Committee of Supply 2013 to tap on the resources of private bus operators to run more City Direct bus services to augment the resources of the public transport operators (PTOs). Currently, express services introduced under the BSEP, naming 513, 850E, 951E and 982E are operated by PTOs and run parallel to train lines between estates and the city.

Route information

Service	Route		Operator	Introduction date	Withdrawal date
	AM Peak	PM Peak
651	Jurong West Avenue 3 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Jurong West Avenue 3	Template:Tower Transit Singapore	2 Sep 2013	N/A
652	Upper Thomson Road → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Upper Thomson Road	Template:SMRT Buses	6 Jan 2014
653	Hume Avenue → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Hillview Avenue		13 Jan 2014
654	Anchorvale Street → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Anchorvale Street	Template:SBS Transit	20 Jan 2014
655	West Coast Road → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → West Coast Road		17 Feb 2014
656	Canberra Road → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Canberra Road	Template:SMRT Buses
657	Jurong West Avenue 1 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Jurong West Avenue 1		24 Feb 2014
658	Bedok Reservoir Road → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Kaki Bukit Avenue 1		19 May 2014	17 Dec 2018
659	Bedok South Road → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Bedok South Road		9 Jun 2014
660	Buangkok Green → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Buangkok Green	Template:SBS Transit	23 Jun 2014	N/A
661	Pasir Ris Drive 3 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Pasir Ris Drive 3	Template:Go-Ahead Singapore	22 Sep 2015
662	Choa Chu Kang North 7 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Choa Chu Kang North 7			17 Dec 2018
663	Yishun Avenue 6 → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Yishun Avenue 6	Template:Tower Transit Singapore	28 Sep 2015	N/A
664	Tampines Street 41 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Tampines Street 41		6 Oct 2015	17 Dec 2018
665	Marsiling Drive → Shenton Way	Anson Road → Marsiling Drive	Template:Tower Transit Singapore	12 Oct 2015	N/A
666	Punggol Drive → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Punggol Drive	Template:Go-Ahead Singapore	29 Feb 2016
667	Clementi Avenue 4 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Clementi Avenue 4	Template:SBS Transit	8 Mar 2016
668	Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5		15 Mar 2016
669	Bedok North Road → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Bedok North Road		22 Mar 2016	3 Jun 2019
670	Yishun Avenue 7 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Yishun Avenue 7	Template:SMRT Buses (from 30 Mar 2020)	29 Mar 2016	N/A
671	Punggol Road → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Punggol Road	Template:SBS Transit	17 Oct 2016
672	Hougang Street 51 → Marina Boulevard	Central Boulevard → Hougang Street 51		7 Nov 2016

Bus Deployments

• CDS Bus Deployments