SBS Transit Bus Service 16M is a supplementary bus service operating between Bedok Interchange and Bukit Merah Interchange, passing through Marine Parade, Joo Chiat, Old Airport, Orchard Road, Tiong Bahru and Jalan Bukit Merah.
Operating as alternate trips of Service 16 during stipulated hours on Weekdays & Saturdays (except Public Holidays), Service 16M makes a detour along Bukit Merah Central & Jalan Bukit Merah, serving two additional pairs of bus stops.
| Route Overview | ||||||||||||
Route  |
Bedok Bus Interchange ↔ Bukit Merah Bus Interchange | |||||||||||
| Passes Through | Marine Parade, Joo Chiat, Old Airport, Orchard, Tiong Bahru, Jln Bukit Merah | |||||||||||
| Route Length | Towards Bukit Merah: 22.6 km | Towards Bedok: 22.1 km |
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| Travelling Time | 90 mins | |||||||||||
| Operator Information | ||||||||||||
| BCM Route Package | Bukit Merah Bus Package | |||||||||||
| Current Operator | SBS Transit Ltd | |||||||||||
| Current Depot | Ulu Pandan Bus Depot (UPDEP) Bedok North Bus Depot (BNDEP) |
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| Current Fleet | Single-deck & Double-deck buses | |||||||||||
| Operating Hours | ||||||||||||
| Departure Times from Bedok |
Weekdays (except Public Holidays) |
Saturdays (except Public Holidays) |
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| 06:00 – 14:40 | 06:00 – 10:30 | |||||||||||
| Departure Times from Bukit Merah |
Weekdays (except Public Holidays) |
Saturdays (except Public Holidays) |
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| 08:30 – 17:00 | 08:30 – 13:15 | |||||||||||
| Operating Frequency | ||||||||||||
| From Bedok | 6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| Weekdays | 17 – 19 mins | 20 – 26 mins | – | – | ||||||||
| Saturdays | 24 mins | 22 – 30 mins | – | – | ||||||||
| From Bukit Merah | 6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| Weekdays | – | 19 – 26 mins | – | – | ||||||||
| Saturdays | – | 22 – 30 mins | – | – | ||||||||
| Fare Information |
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| Fare | Charges regular distance fares |
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Launched on 9 March 2020, Bus Service 16M is a supplementary route of Service 16 that makes a slight detour by plying Jalan Bukit Merah (outside Bukit Merah Town Centre) before entering Bukit Merah Central, thus serving two additional pairs of bus stops. During its stipulated operating hours on Mondays to Saturdays (excluding Public Holidays) as outlined above, Service 16M operates on alternate trips with Service 16.
Apart from increasing accessibility to nearby community amenities (such as Bukit Merah Community Centre and Bukit Merah Polyclinic), the route gives upstream commuters the option to alight at Jalan Bukit Merah, offering easy transfer to many other bus services plying the Jalan Bukit Merah corridor.
MRT Stations Served:
- EW5 Bedok
- TE27 Marine Terrace
- TE26 Marine Parade
- CC8 Dakota
- CC7 Mountbatten
- CC5 Nicoll Highway
- EW13NS25 City Hall
- CC3 Esplanade
- CC2 Bras Basah
- DT21 Bencoolen
- NS24NE6CC1 Dhoby Ghaut
- NS23 Somerset
- NS22TE14 Orchard
- TE15 Great World
- TE16 Havelock
- EW17 Tiong Bahru
Route Variant:
- Service 16: Bedok ↔ Bukit Merah
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Operator History
- 09 Mar 2020 – Present: SBS Transit Ltd
The Bus Service Operating License (BSOL) for this route will be renewed in 2029 under the Bukit Merah Bus Package.
History
- 2020 (09 Mar): Introduced as a supplementary service between Bedok Integrated Transport Hub and Bukit Merah Int during mornings and afternoons on weekdays and mornings on Saturdays, plying an extended route of Service 16 via Jln Bukit Merah and Bukit Merah Ctrl. Wheelchair-accessible at launch.
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Since 16 will get affected by Thomson East Coast Line MRT rationalisation, with stage 4 opening on 23 june & currently 16 duplicates the TEL from Orchard to Havelock, can other bus routes replace the purpose of 16M from Bukit Merah Interchange to Henderson Road via Bukit Merah Central & Jalan Bukit Merah such as 132 & 851? What do you think?
Till now I still don’t understand why can’t they just uprightly amend 16 to the current 16M (and they can just amend routes that caused controversy easily).
Ikr LTA planners these days are a bunch of clowns. They always talk so much about needing to be prudent with taxpayers’ monies yadda yadda when people complained about controversial amendments yet can still come up with useless route variants like this 16M that literally no one asked for. Bruh
Ah yes, the Clown Transport Authority
Even if the LTA isn’t repealing the route of 16M, they could just renumber it to 16 and stop using the name 16M
Less taxes required than a 99% duplication that runs simultaneously
Heck, even 853M (the extended version of 853 that goes to East Coast instead of stopping at Kallang) is more worth the money
Oh yeah
Forgot to say that 248 (as it currently stands) is also pretty redundant (248M runs continuously every day, and the parent service only runs for three time periods per day)
They should just merge the two as 248 under 248M’s route
Then bus 16 should only operate on Sunday’s and PH. Or, bus 16 operates on weekdays and Saturdays, while bus 16M operates on Sunday’s and PH. Or could be something like bus 70 or 853.
Thing is, the polyclinic doesn’t open on Sundays and PHs.
So 16/M finally started deploying DDs.. I wonder how the service got DD clearance eventually as there were supposedly height restrictions in place at Joo Chiat Rd that prohibited DD deployment on 16..