Sengkang West Bus Depot

Sengkang West Bus Depot is an upcoming bus depot bounded by Seletar West Road 1 & Seletar West Road 2. It is scheduled to be completed by 2024 (originally planned for 2023) and will be handed over to the successful tenderer of a currently-unknown bus package under the Bus Contracting Model (BCM).

General Information
Name Sengkang West Bus Depot
Address 8 Seletar West Road 1, Singapore 798990 /
12 Seletar West Road 2, Singapore 798989
Depot Information
Operator TBA
BCM Route Package TBC
Type Multi-storey bus depot
Catchment TBC
Introduction

Sengkang West Bus Depot is the fifth bus depot (after Ulu Pandan Bus Depot) that LTA developed and funded, as well as the first multi-storey bus depot commissioned by LTA (not counting East Coast Integrated Depot). The depot is intended to accommodate additional buses that are being introduced over the years, as the overall bus capacity increases under the Bus Service Enhancement Programme (BSEP) and Bus Contracting Model (BCM).

The location of Sengkang West Bus Depot was confirmed in April 2017 through the approval of changes to the URA Masterplan 2014. Contract DE133 for the Design and Construction of Sengkang West Bus Depot was published on 3 May 2018. The multi-story depot is designed for handling roughly 600 buses and will be equipped with parking spaces, refuelling and washing facilities, repair and maintenance facilities, and administrative offices to support day-to-day bus operations.

On 25 Jun 2019, the contract was awarded to Santarli Construction Pte Ltd-Zheng Keng Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd Joint Venture at a sum of SGD $202,120,000.

The bus package allocated to Sengkang West Bus Depot remains to be confirmed, but given its location, it will very likely be allocated to Sengkang–Hougang Bus Package and as a replacement for Hougang Bus Depot. The route package was scheduled for contract renewal in 2021, which falls short of the depot’s expected completion date of 2023. However, in October 2021, the negotiated contract with SBS Transit was revealed to be extended by 3 years till 2024.

When completed, Sengkang West Bus Depot will be the third multi-storey bus depot in Singapore after Woodlands Bus Depot and Soon Lee Bus Depot.

Delayed Opening

Due to the Circuit Breaker and phased re-opening since April 2020, the completion of Sengkang West Bus Depot was delayed from 2023 to 2024 as mentioned by Minister for Transport Ong Ye Kung in a written reply to a Parliamentary Question posed in October 2020.

Bus Captain Dormitory

As part of the Ministry of Transport’s Financial Year 2019 Expenditure Estimates, an item for “Independent Multi-Storey Bus Depot-cum-Dormitory at Sengkang West” was listed. In response to a media query by Lianhe Zaobao, an LTA spokesperson mentioned that the proposed dormitory for Bus Captains would be built as part of the construction of Sengkang West Bus Depot, to maximise land use and reduce travelling time to and from the Bus Depot for Bus Captains.

It remains to be confirmed if the dormitory will be integrated within the Bus Depot building, or as a separate building in the vicinity of the Bus Depot.

Charging Infrastructure

As part of the tender for Electric Vehicles Charging System (EVCS) for Electric Buses (Reference no.: BD401), Sengkang West Bus Depot is one of the bus depots that will be outfitted with Electric Bus Chargers, which will support the 360 three-door electric single deck buses procured by LTA in November 2023.

For Sengkang West Bus Depot, Busways Pte Ltd/Shell Singapore Pte Ltd Consortium will be installing these EV chargers, which will have capacities of up to 360kW.

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13 thoughts on “Sengkang West Bus Depot

  • 8 January 2024 at 5:22 PM
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    Sengkang West Bus Package Should be Operated by Tower Transit since it’s operative in the North Region

    And Certain Services like 80, 87 should be removed from the Package and go to there new packages with new services
    80 to Bukit Merah Package under SBST (Can Amend to loop at Sims Place from HarbourFront, There is MRT from City to Hougang and Sengkang Already and other bus services from Paya Lebar/Geylang East)
    87 to Bedok Package under SBST (Can possibly extend to Punggol North in the Future)
    And Services 854, 854e & 965 can add to the Package since they serve Sengkang and Nearby

    Service 83 can extend to Buangkok INT since there is already a lot of services that take Sengkang-Punggol Route

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  • 12 September 2021 at 12:58 PM
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    High chance that Go-Ahead will win SK-Hougang package and base its ops from this depot.

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    • 20 June 2022 at 11:35 AM
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      Most probably,But they will lose out Loyang to SMRT but bag CCK in 2023.

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    • 2 September 2023 at 4:45 AM
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      What about svc 51 & 151?More dead mileage incurred unless GA ask permission to park a few buses from those svc @ UP.I rather LTA award CCK to GA.Few of svc 61 & 67 can park at LY.

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  • 30 November 2020 at 8:46 PM
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    If GAS win SKG-HGN in 2023,Then the SGN-EUN buses will park at former SMRT Amdep and SBST Amdep until Kim Chuan depot is completed in 2025.

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  • 11 October 2020 at 5:51 PM
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    Strong feelings that GAS will win Sengkang-Hougang package

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