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

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