SBS Transit buses to skip stops on 23 routes due to Chinese New Year celebrations

SBS Transit buses at the Toa Payoh bus interchange. Twenty-three SBS Transit bus routes will skip several bus stops from Friday Feb 7 to Sunday Feb 9 due to Chinese New Year events. -- ST FILE PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
SBS Transit buses at the Toa Payoh bus interchange. Twenty-three SBS Transit bus routes will skip several bus stops from Friday Feb 7 to Sunday Feb 9 due to Chinese New Year events. -- ST FILE PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN

Twenty-three SBS Transit bus routes will skip several bus stops from Friday Feb 7 to Sunday Feb 9 due to Chinese New Year events.

Eight of these - routes 36, 56, 70M, 97, 111, 133, 162M and 195 - will miss out a bus stop on Raffles Avenue between 9.30pm and 11pm because of a lane closure for the Chingay Parade on Friday and Saturday.

Bus service 48 will also skip two bus stops along Holland Avenue and Holland Drive on Sunday Feb 9, from 5pm to 6.30pm, due to a road closure for a Chingay Parade event.

On Sunday Feb 9, 14 bus services will skip eight bus stops in the Chinatown area from 2pm to 11pm because of road closures for the Chinese New Year Yuan Xiao Party. The routes are 2, 12, 33, 54, 63, 80, 124, 143, 145, 147, 166, 197, CT8 and CT18.

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