SINGAPORE – The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is carrying out modification works at some bus stops across the country to support more than 500 public buses that have three doors, for smoother boarding and alighting.
However, due to site constraints at some locations, not all bus stops can be modified, it added.
“At these bus stops, the third door may continue to remain closed, and bus captains will advise passengers to alight using the second door for safety,” said LTA on April 27 in response to queries from The Straits Times.
It did not provide the number of bus stops deemed unsafe to alight from the third door. Neither did it disclose the number of bus stops undergoing modification works.
LTA explained that at some bus stops, the third door would open directly onto the road instead of a “proper platform”.
Such bus stops, including one at East Coast Apartments in Telok Kurau Road, are shorter in length and situated between exits of a residential building.
At another stop along the same road, before Saint Patrick’s Road, passengers alighting from the third door might step on a grass patch instead of a concrete platform.
A bus stop at Sing-China Building on Piccadilly Road near Seletar West Park Connector has a different infrastructural constraint – there are metal beam barriers on both sides of the bus stop.
