Implementation of Wheelchair-Accessible Bus (WAB) Services

Introduction

On 26th June 2006, the first Wheelchair-Accessible Bus (WAB) service was launched on Service 21 after the consultation from the Voluntary Welfare Organisation (VWOs) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA). The first 10 WAB-friendly Volvo B9TL (CDGE) double-decker buses were deployed on Service 21.

Service 21 was chosen as it serves the key medical facilities such as the Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Voluntary Welfare Organisation (VWOs) such as the Handicaps Welfare Organisation, within its vicinity.

Over the past 10 years, existing bus services had progressively launched Wheelchair-Accessible Bus (WAB) services, providing better public transport for the passengers-in-wheelchair (PIW) bound, with newer WAB-friendly buses that are currently being rolled out as part of the fleet renewal exercise.

SMRT had launched its first batch of WAB services on 1st June 2009, with the roll out of 134 units of WAB-friendly Mercedes-Benz OC500LE (Gemilang) single-decker buses.

Currently, there are 229 SBS Transit bus services, 60 SMRT bus services and 14 Tower Transit bus services which are WAB certified.

List of WAB services

SBS Transit

Implementation date	Bus services
26 June 2006	21
30 October 2006	147
3 December 2006	12, 196, 198
22 May 2007	2, 51, 72, 76
20 August 2007	7, 80
17 December 2007	143T
14 July 2008	14, 123, 174, 185
2 December 2008	64, 130, 183, 199, 232, 238
26 October 2009	3, 27, 34, 53, 142, 293, 358, 410
3 December 2009	13, 15, 36, 52, 54, 57, 291, 333
28 February 2010	29, 63, 113, 265, 334, 359
28 June 2010	45, 48, 59, 94, 240, 242
18 October 2010	43, 95, 181, 228, 235
2 December 2010	24, 86, 151, 225, 231, 335
7 March 2011	18, 22, 55, 60, 135, 136, 162/162M, 241, 261, 269
27 June 2011	5, 17, 38, 39, 99, 194, 354, 400, 402
26 September 2011	19, 100, 109, 133, 138, 154, 156, 315, 317
3 December 2011	16, 30, 87, 101, 131, 175, 272, 273, 275, 282, 284, 285, 292, 403
26 March 2012	10, 25, 58, 66T, 69, 105, 165, 168
25 June 2012	33, 78T, 79T, 96, 97T, 98/98M, 124, 125, 197, 243
30 September 2012	56, 128, 163/163M, 166, 186, 195, 229, 502, 506
3 December 2012	32, 70/70M, 73, 93, 111, 238, 325, 372, 518
31 March 2013	4, 50, 62, 82, 116, 119, 132, 158, 513
9 June 2013	85, 88, 112, 120, 145, 222
30 September 2013	20, 141, 157, 182/182M, 192
3 December 2013	6, 40, 90, 139
23 March 2014	26, 35, 49, 65, 161
29 June 2014	83, 121, 155, 371
29 September 2014	11, 42, 74, 92, 386
3 December 2014	9, 91, 103, 115, CT8, CT18
30 March 2015	41, 140, 159, 201, 324, 405
22 June 2015	31, 89, 122, 200
20 September 2015	102N
28 September 2015	28, 153, 74e, 97e, 174e
21 November 2015	258N
3 December 2015	107/107M, 179, 14e, 89e, 151e
20 December 2015	47N, 117N, 118N
3 January 2016	382N
25 January 2016	30e, 196e, 246, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257
20 March 2016	134N, 150N
28 March 2016	408, 552, 553, 554, 565, 585, CT28, 1N, 2N, 3N, 4N, 5N, 6N
27 June 2016	10e, 37, 533, 534, 535, 536, 538, 539, 544, 545, 549, 555, 560, 561, 563, 564

SMRT Buses

Implementation date	Bus services
1 June 2009	171, 172, 189T, 307, 811, 851, 945T
29 November 2010	858
3 December 2011	61, 855, 920, 922, 950
29 April 2012	187, 852, 857, 970
1 July 2012	75, 77T, 177T, 700/700A
15 November 2012	167, 859, 860, 966, 980, 985
21 April 2013	173T, 882, 941T, 981
7 July 2013	902, 965, 969
29 September 2013	178, 853, 904, 947T
2 March 2014	803, 927, 961, 972
22 March 2015	176, 188, 990T
14 June 2015	106T, 190, 301, 804, 911, 963, 983
11 October 2015	67, 169, 854, 901, 925
27 December 2015	979N
14 February 2016	805N
3 April 2016	302, 800, 812, 903, 912, 913, 960, 962
24 April 2016	979MN
15 May 2016	308N

Other information

Legend

N	Services that was given a WAB status on its first day of introduction.
T	Services that was transferred over to Tower Transit as part of the LTA's Bus Contracting Model (BCM).