SBS Transit Bus Service 30 is a trunk service plying between Bedok and Boon Lay, passing through Geylang Serai, Mountbatten, HarbourFront, Pasir Panjang, Teban Gardens and Corporation Drive, running from East to West of Singapore. An Express route variant, Service 30e, is also operated.
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Notes:
- – Wheelchair Inaccessible Bus Stop
| Route Overview | ||||||||||||
Route  |
Bedok Bus Interchange ↔ Boon Lay Bus Interchange | |||||||||||
| Passes Through | Changi Road, Sims Ave, Old Airport Rd, Telok Blangah Rd, Pasir Panjang Rd, West Coast Rd, Corporation Dr | |||||||||||
| Route Length | Towards Boon Lay: 37.9 km | Towards Bedok: 37.9 km | ||||||||||
| Travelling Time | 130 mins | |||||||||||
| Operator Information | ||||||||||||
| BCM Route Package | Bedok Bus Package | |||||||||||
| Current Operator | SBS Transit Ltd | |||||||||||
| Current Depot | Bedok North Bus Depot (BNDEP) Ulu Pandan Bus Depot (UPDEP) Ulu Pandan buses park at: Bulim Bus Depot |
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| Current Fleet | Single-deck & Double-deck buses | |||||||||||
| Operating Hours | ||||||||||||
| Departure Times from Bedok | Weekdays & Saturdays | Sundays / Public Holidays | ||||||||||
| 05:15 – 23:35 | 05:30 – 23:35 | |||||||||||
| Departure Times from Boon Lay |
Weekdays & Saturdays | Sundays / Public Holidays | ||||||||||
| 05:30 – 00:20 | 05:45 – 00:20 | |||||||||||
| Operating Frequency | ||||||||||||
| From Bedok |
6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| Mondays – Thursdays | 8 – 9 mins | 10 – 16 mins | 10 – 16 mins | 15 – 17 mins | ||||||||
| Fridays | 8 – 9 mins | 8 – 15 mins | 11 – 15 mins | 15 – 16 mins | ||||||||
| Saturdays | 12 – 13 mins | 9 – 14 mins | 14 – 16 mins | 13 – 18 mins | ||||||||
| Sundays / Public Holidays | 14 – 16 mins | 12 – 16 mins | 14 – 15 mins | 14 – 19 mins | ||||||||
| From Boon Lay |
6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| Mondays – Thursdays | 9 – 11 mins | 8 – 16 mins | 8 – 10 mins | 11 – 19 mins | ||||||||
| Fridays | 10 – 11 mins | 9 – 16 mins | 8 – 10 mins | 12 – 19 mins | ||||||||
| Saturdays | 12 – 14 mins | 10 – 14 mins | 10 – 18 mins | 12 – 18 mins | ||||||||
| Sundays / Public Holidays | 12 – 13 mins | 10 – 15 mins | 15 mins | 13 – 17 mins | ||||||||
| Fare Information |
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| Fare | Charges regular distance fares |
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Spanning from East to West, Service 30 provides inter-town connections between many parts of Singapore. From Bedok Interchange, the route passes through Geylang Serai, Old Airport, Fort Road, Keppel and HarbourFront, continuing west to Pasir Panjang, West Coast, Teban Gardens and Corporation Drive, terminating at Boon Lay Interchange. At almost 38km in each direction, it is one of SBS Transit’s longest bi-directional bus routes.
As an inter-town service, demand for this route is moderate to high throughout the day. Particularly strong areas of demand include the sector between Boon Lay Interchange and Corporation Drive (supplementing Feeder 240), and the sector between HarbourFront and Bedok. By having an express sector between Keppel Road and Fort Road, this service skips the CBD area allowing for faster commute as compared to other services such as 10 (to Old Airport) and 196 (to Mountbatten), which travel through the CBD.
Since 1992, Service 30 had been plying its express sector along the East Coast Parkway, offering scenic views along the Benjamin Sheares Bridge. With the opening of the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE) in late 2013, the service now travels underground, no longer plying the scenic stretch of road.
Despite its length, the last bus from Boon Lay departs rather late, at 12:20am daily. This trip reaches Bedok at around 1:30am; a runtime of 70 mins would not be possible during the day where passenger demand and road traffic is higher.
MRT Stations Served:
- EW5 Bedok
- EW6 Kembangan
- EW7 Eunos
- EW8CC9 Paya Lebar
- CC8 Dakota
- CC7 Mountbatten
- TE24 Katong Park
- NE1CC29 HarbourFront
- CC28 Telok Blangah
- CC27 Labrador Park
- CC26 Pasir Panjang
- CC25 Haw Par Villa
- EW27 Boon Lay
Special Departures:
- Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim (Aft Corporation Pl) → Bedok Int
Weekdays: 05:30 & 05:38 - Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim (Bef Jurong Port Rd) → Boon Lay Int
Weekdays: 06:00, 06:33, 06:48, 06:58 & 07:29 - Telok Blangah Road (HarbourFront Stn Exit B) → Boon Lay Int
Weekdays: 05:30 & 05:39
Saturdays: 05:30 & 05:42
Sundays / Public Holidays: 05:30, 05:43, 05:56 & 08:50
Route Variant
- Express 30e: Bedok Int ⇄ Pasir Panjang Rd
Weekdays Morning & Evening Peak Hours, except Public Holidays
Express 30e offers quicker travel for commuters in the East travelling to their workplaces at Pasir Panjang in the morning and back in the evening.
Gallery:
Poster Gallery
Operator History:
- 1974 – 2001: Singapore Bus Services Ltd
- 2001 – Present: SBS Transit Ltd
The Bus Service Operating License (BSOL) for this route will be renewed under the Bedok Bus Package, in which the negotiated contract term was extended by an undisclosed number of years from 2023.
History:
- 1974 (03 Feb): Re-numbered from Service 30/30A as a service between Chai Chee Ter and Jln Ahmad Ibrahim Ter
- 1974 (08 Dec): Amended to ply the extended stretch of Robinson Rd, skipping Market St
- 1976 (15 Feb): Serves new staggered bus stop outside Overseas Union Finance along Robinson Rd
- 1978 (01 Jun):Â Extended to Jurong Int
- 1979 (11 Feb): Amended to ply the extended Shenton Way towards Jurong Int, skipping Parsi Rd and Anson Rd
- 1979 (25 Feb): Amended to Bedok Int
- 1979 (14 Oct): Amended to ply Still Rd and Sims Ave East towards Bedok Int with the conversion of Changi Rd to one-way traffic, skipping Telok Kurau Rd
- 1979 (25 Nov): Amended to ply Sims Ave/Geylang Rd and Tg Katong Rd, skipping Telok Kurau Rd/Still Rd, Joo Chiat Pl and Joo Chiat Rd
- 1981 (11 Oct): Serves new staggered bus stop outside Tunas Bldg along Anson Rd, skipping the bus stop outside Intl Plaza
- 1982 (24 May): Amended to ply West Coast Highway
- 1988 (03 Jan): Serves new staggered bus stop opposite Treasury Bldg along Shenton Way, skipping the bus stop opposite Marina House
- 1990 (01 Jul): Extended to Boon Lay Int and amended to ply Teban Gardens Rd towards Boon Lay Int
- 1992 (28 Jun): Amended to ply Mountbatten Rd, Fort Rd and ECP under TransitLink Network Integration Exercise Phase 8, skipping Nicoll Highway and Shenton Way
- 1996: Skips a pair of abolished bus stops outside and opposite MOE Water Works along Jln Ahmad Ibrahim
- 1999: Serves new pair of bus stops outside and opposite West Bay Resort Condo along West Coast Rd
- 1999: Skips abolished pair of bus stops outside and opposite Wishart Rd along Telok Blangah Rd
- 2001: Amended to ply West Coast Rd and Penjuru Rd with the partial closure of Teban Gardens Rd
- 2002: Skips abolished bus stop opposite ITE Pasir Panjang along Telok Blangah Rd
- 2002: First bus from Boon Lay Int brought forward to 0530 hrs on weekdays and Saturdays, and 0545 hrs on Sundays and Public Holidays.
- 2003 (16 Mar): Amended to ply Geylang Rd, Paya Lebar Rd and Sims Ave with the partial closure of Tg Katong Rd for the construction of Circle MRT Line
- 2003: Serves new bus stop outside Shell Kiosk along Tg Katong Rd
- 2004: Last bus from Bedok Int extended to 2335 hrs daily
- 2006 (19 Mar): Amended to ply Cassia Link, Cassia Cres, Guillemard Rd and Guillemard Camp Rd with the partial closure of Old Airport Rd and Dunman Rd to facilitate the construction of Dakota MRT station on the Circle MRT Line
- 2006 (18 Jun): Amended to Boon Lay Temp Int
- 2006 (29 Oct): Serves new bus stop outside VivoCity along Telok Blangah Rd
- 2008 (07 Dec): Skips abolished bus stop opposite Temenggong D Mosque along Telok Blangah Rd
- 2008 (29 Dec): Amended to ply the reinstated Old Airport Rd and Dunman Rd, skipping Cassia Link, Guillemard Rd and Guillemard Camp Rd
- 2009 (04 Oct): Amended to ply the reinstated Tg Katong Rd, skipping Geylang Rd, Paya Lebar Rd and Sims Ave
- 2009 (27 Dec): Amended to Boon Lay Integrated Transport Hub
- 2011 (19 Nov): Amended to Bedok Temp Int
- 2011 (03 Dec): Designated wheelchair-accessible bus service (WAB)
- 2013 (29 Dec): Amended to ply MCE with the partial closure of ECP
- 2014 (30 Nov): Amended to Bedok Integrated Transport Hub
- 2023 (08 Jan): Amended to ply the realigned Teban Gardens Rd towards Boon Lay and serves additional bus stop before Teban Gdns Rd along Jurong Town Hall Rd
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Worst service ever
Waited for more than 30 mins opp blk 32 bedok!!
Only Bbdep 30,99 & 198 park at Soon Lee second floor.They’re temporary allocated 40 parking lots including 7 spare buses.174 fully Bbdep.
i saw a special departure of service 30 from Telok Blangah Road bus stop “After Alexandra Road”
on Saturday the 16th march at around 10:30am
I’m sure only the boon lay bound svc will realign and gain a stop at Jurong Town Hall Rd
Should be under Jurong West since it serve 70% of the West/South sectors.
Look at Express 30e, it’s Bedok – Pasir Panjang. That’s why LTA placed 30/30e under Bedok.
Actually can also shortened 30 to Kent Ridge if LTA wants…Or 30e the reverse way.