Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:From what I have heard Joo Koon interchange will be used solely for Benoi-Gul-Pioneer-Tuas industrial estates and not really have city direction trunk services. Hence, may be 5 services is fine to start from here. Guess, 3 will be completely new, and 2 might shift from Boon Lay to here.
The whole JIS service needs a re-routing. Some routes are very winding. This is a good opportunity for LTA to make a proper routing including 182/192/193/254/255/257.
Hopefully, after the re-routing, there can be still be one bus route that goes into Jurong West Extension area, before going into the industrial area and end at Joo Koon Bus Interchange. Maybe can stop at Pioneer MRT Station before going into industrial area, so the load can be seperated, since after all there are two distinct types of commuters: residents (before Pioneer MRT) and employees (after Pioneer MRT).
For example,
- Boon Lay Bus Interchange
- Jurong West Street 64, Avenue 4, Street 72, Avenue 5, Street 82, Street 81, Street 71, Street 61.
- Pioneer MRT Station
- Pioneer Road North
- ... (industrial area)...
- Benoi Road
- Joo Koon Bus Interchange
- Joo Koon Circle
- Joo Koon Way
- ... (industrial area)...
- Pioneer Road North
- Jurong West Street 61, Street 71, Street 81, Street 82, Avenue 5, Street 72, Avenue 4, Street 64.
- Boon Lay Bus Interchange
This will benefit a few groups of people:
- -Employees & Employers woking in the industrial area
between Pioneer MRT and Joo Koon MRT, where obviously is faster
(and cheaper) to go from Pioneer MRT than Joo Koon
MRT.
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- -People staying in Gek Poh, Nanyang and Pioneer can have bus
connection to Pioneer MRT.
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- -People staying in Gek Poh, Nanyang and Pioneer can have direct
bus connection to Fairprice Hub.
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- -Can complement feeder services 242 and 243 at heavily-utilised
sections during peak hours.
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