The shuttle service is funded by the CDC and will take up 5 to 6 per cent of its budget.
A new shuttle bus service will be rolled out from Jul 8 to connect residents living in the Marine Parade cluster. SINGAPORE: The one-year free shuttle bus service pilot for Marine Parade cluster residents was designed in consultation with the Land Transport Authority and not decided “in a vacuum”, said Member of Parliament for MacPherson SMC Tin Pei Ling .
Residents living in Marine Parade GRC, MacPherson SMC and Mountbatten SMC will from Jul 8 have access to the new free shuttle bus service that will ply seven routes within these areas and bring them to amenities like polyclinics, hawker centres and MRT stations. The free shuttle bus service can quickly address the needs of residents and is also “flexible” in adapting to new concerns.
“Each district will have different needs and people within each district and its different clusters will also have different needs they have to find the resources for,” she said.Ms Tin said that some of the feedback on the Marine Parade cluster is that public transport may not fully reach “community focal nodes” and may also not be frequent enough, especially for last-mile connections.
She also said that the one-year pilot means changes can be made along the way, and more can be done at the end of it. “We can only speak for our own cluster … whether or not it will be replicated will be for the others to decide,” she said.
Land Transport Authority Tin Pei Ling
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