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Some services only run during the peak hours for now because there are limited buses and drivers, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to prioritise getting more connections first, connect to more places first, instead of putting all the buses into one single service,\u201d he said, adding that if there is demand, the services can slowly be expanded to off-peak hours.<\/p>\n
As for the delayed Jurong Region Line <\/span>(JRL), Mr Siow said an\u00a0interim shuttle bus service, which will broadly follow the route of the JRL, will be introduced from the second half of 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCommuters will begin to enjoy the JRL\u2019s connectivity on the original timeline \u2013 first by bus, and later by train when the JRL is up and running,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n He previously shared that the JRL\u2019s opening would be pushed back by around six months because of construction delays and testing, and that the line will open in the middle of 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n LTA said in a press release on Sunday that the new bus services 873 and 874, which connect to Tengah, will begin on Oct 25.<\/span><\/p>\n The former will link Tengah to Bukit Gombak, Hillview and Hume MRT stations, while the latter will link Tengah to Choa Chu Kang.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Siow, who is a member of parliament for Chua Chu Kang GRC, said many residents have been asking for a bus service like 874.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI understand, because many of the residents here have moved from Choa Chu Kang and your parents are still in Choa Chu Kang, family still there, some of your children also go to school in Choa Chu Kang,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, commuters need to change buses two or three times to get to Choa Chu Kang.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWith 874, there will be just one bus,\u201d he said, adding that it will pass through the Choa Chu Kang town centre and by Concord Primary School, Bukit Panjang Government High, Chua Chu Kang Primary, Sunshine Place and Brickland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some services only run during the peak hours for now because there are limited buses and drivers, he said. \u201cI wanted to prioritise getting more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--geC6c7vP--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/18\/673682971_1266423142332415_3796468912969529907_n.jpg?itok=6evuggRo","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3239,1429,23850,9575,713,700,29204,3665,3240,12488,3242,8149],"class_list":["post-86522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bus","tag-delayed","tag-interim","tag-jurong","tag-launch","tag-line","tag-mid2027","tag-region","tag-routes","tag-shuttles","tag-tengah","tag-woodlands","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}TENGAH, WOODLANDS BUS SERVICES<\/h2>\n
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