SBS Transit to divert 24 bus services for New Year countdown

24 bus services will be diverted from Sunday evening (31^st December) to early New Year's Day due to road closures for the New Year countdown celebrations across Singapore. Transport operator SBS Transit said on Tuesday (26^th December) that three bus services - 99, 240 and 246 - will be affected from 6:00pm on 31^st December to 1:00am on 1^st January for the countdown event in Boon Lay. The bus services will skip bus stops along Boon Lay Drive, Boon Lay Place and Corporation Road.

In addition, 15 bus services in the Marina Bay area will be diverted from their regular routes for the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown 2018. The bus services are: 10, 56, 57, 70M, 100, 111, 130, 131, 133, 162M, 195, 196, 400, 402, and 502. These services will not call at affected bus stops along Bayfront Avenue, Collyer Quay, Connaught Drive, Marina Boulevard, Parliament Place, Raffles Avenue and Temasek Avenue. The diversion will start in phases from 4:00pm on 31^st December to 2:00am on 1^st January.

The six Nite Owl services will have their routes diverted between 12:00am to 2:00am. These services will skip the first three bus stops on their regular routes along Raffles Avenue and begin service along North Bridge Road, at the bus stop in front of the City Hall MRT station. As the Nite Owl services will be extended to operate until 4:00am, the services will ply their regular routes from 2:00am after the affected roads are opened, SBS Transit said.