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11 unusual facts about SBS Transit


Downtown MRT Line

In August 2011, SBS Transit won the bid and was appointed to be the operator of the Downtown Line, under a new framework which would see the authority remaining the owner of the line.

Public Transport Council

In 2006, the PTC approved applications from local transport operators SBS Transit and SMRT for an overall increase in bus and train fares of 1.7%.

SBS Transit

It then installed with LECIP EDS in 2012.
SBS9814K was driven by Kym Ng's character in Channel U drama serial She Drives Me Crazy (爱上女车长).


SBS2696E, SBS2779A and SBS2812L was previously Nokia advertisement-concept buses with special interiors.


SBS2822H was previously the F&N advertisement-concept bus with special interior but it was then changed when it became the NTU ad-concept bus together with SBS2818L, SBS2795C and SBS2837R.

TVMobile

SBS Transit was the only bus operator to have installed TVMobile in its buses as of 2006.

TVMobile had outdoor-advertising platforms at shopping mall food courts, ferries, academic institutions, taxis and selected SBS Transit buses.

As of 2005, TVMobile had been installed in most of SBS Transit's buses.

SBS Transit Moove Media, the advertising arm of SBS Transit, is responsible for advertising on its trains, buses and taxis.

SBS Transit buses were just a medium on which TVMobile was installed.

This was despite the fact that the infrastructure and equipment of TVMobile was not managed by SBS Transit at all, but rather, by MediaCorp TV Holdings.