As we all know, the Singapore bus is a kind of significant and vital circle of the public transportations of the whole Singapore, and there are totally more than 300 public bus routes in the whole Singapore island, and these public buses of the Singapore usually possess the carrying capacity of more than 3,000,000 passengers in a day, and the main service providers of these Singapore public buses are the New MRT buses and the SMRT buses as well.
What’s more, as a matter of fact, at the beginning of the establishments of the Singapore, the public transportations of this country were not very well and ideal. At that time, there were other smaller but independent Chinese-owned buses running and working in the rural areas and the urban areas except these public transportation buses routes running and working only in the city center which were established and set up by the Singapore Traction Company. Also, if you wanted to go through the whole Singapore island from the east to the west at that time, you had to transformed and changed the buses which you got on for many times, and the whole bus strokes would cost you several hours.
Moreover, however, when it was in 1970, due to the government interventions of the local government of the Singapore, all the public transportation routes of the public buses in Singapore were completely assembled and composed, and in the meantime, all the public buses operating companies in Singapore were correspondingly merged and combined into three main large public buses companies seriously according to their geographical divisions. Also, the three main large public buses companies in Singapore were once again merged into one super public buses operating company in 1973, so, the previous company of the New MRT bus, the Singapore Bus Service, was formally founded. And in 1980s, the local government of the Singapore would like to bring into some competitions, and then the previous company of the SMRT bus, the Trans-Island Bus Services were also established.