SMRT Feeder Bus Service 901M is a Feeder service operating from Woodlands Temporary Interchange and looping at Woodlands Avenue 6, passing through Woodlands Ave 1, Woodlands Dr 16 and Admiralty MRT Station.
Operating daily and throughout the day, it operates as alternate trips of Feeder Service 901 and offers intra-town connections between many housing estates around Woodlands South and Admiralty, offering connections to Woodlands, Woodlands South and Admiralty MRT Stations, in addition to alleviating existing demand for Service 901.
| Route Overview | ||||||||||||
Route  |
Woodlands Temporary Bus Interchange ↺ Woodlands Avenue 6 (Loop) | |||||||||||
| Passes Through | Woodlands Ave 2, Ave 1, Dr 16, Admiralty MRT | |||||||||||
| Route Length | 9.6 km | |||||||||||
| Travelling Time | 41 – 60 mins | |||||||||||
| Operator Information | ||||||||||||
| BCM Route Package | Woodlands Bus Package | |||||||||||
| Current Operator | SMRT Buses Ltd | |||||||||||
| Current Depot | Woodlands Bus Depot (WLDEP) | |||||||||||
| Current Fleet | 12-metre Double Decker Bus: – MAN A95 – Volvo B9TL 12-metre Single Deck Buses: – MAN A22 |
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| Operating Hours | ||||||||||||
| Departure Times from Woodlands | Weekdays & Saturdays | Sundays & PHs | ||||||||||
| 05:30 – 00:55 | 05:50 – 00:55 | |||||||||||
| Operating Frequency | ||||||||||||
| From Woodlands | 6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| 08 – 09 mins | 09 – 10 mins | 07 – 09 mins | 08 – 20 mins | |||||||||
| Fare Information |
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| Fare | Charges regular distance fares. Distance fares for Feeder services are capped at 3.2km. |
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Feeder Service 901M serves residential blocks, schools and public amenities along Woodlands Ave 2, Woodlands Ave 1, Woodlands Dr 16 and Woodlands Ave 6, connecting them to Woodlands Regional Centre and key transport nodes such as Woodlands Bus Interchange/MRT station, Admiralty MRT Station and Woodlands South MRT Station.
As a route variant of Feeder Service 901, this route plies a longer version of Service 901 to offer improved connections within the Woodlands estate. It operates as every alternate trip of Service 901 departing Woodlands Interchange.
In addition, Service 901M serves the following schools and public amenities:
- Woodgrove Primary School
- Innova Primary School
- Christ Church Secondary School
- Spectra Secondary School
- Kampung Admiralty
- Admiralty Place
- ACE the Place Community Centre
- Vista Point
- Woodlands East Neighbourhood Police Centre
- Woodlands Galaxy Community Centre
- Admiralty Wet Market & Food Centre
- BW Monastery
- Covenant Evangelical Free Church (Woodlands)
- Light of Christ Church Woodlands
To accommodate the introduction of Service 901M, several new bus stops were constructed along Woodlands Drive 16 and Woodlands Avenue 6.
We launched the new 901M bus service today. I joined grassroots leaders and friends from LTA and SMRT who worked hard…
Posted by Vikram Nair on Sunday, 23 June 2019
Fare: Distance Fares for Feeder Services are capped at 3.2km. See Bus Fares.
MRT Stations Served
- NS9TE2 Woodlands
- TE3 Woodlands South
- NS10 Admiralty
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Operator History
- 2019 – Present: SMRT Buses Ltd
The Bus Service Operating License (BSOL) for this route will be renewed in 2023 under the Woodlands Bus Package.
History
- 2019 (23 Jun): Launched from Woodlands Int to Woodlands Avenue 6 (Loop) as a route variant of Service 901. Wheelchair-accessible at launch.
- 2019 (05 Oct): Last bus timing from Woodlands amended from 0050hrs to 0055hrs.
I’m Soo bored of supplementary services. Bet they will be withdrawn in the future.
Instead of buying new bendies for feeders which they say use a lot of spaces,They keep on adding buses and M variant which is redundant..Just extend the 901 route and use 9 SD and 5 BD for this route..912/913M another wasted service
901 can use 7 SD & 3 BD while 901M can use 3 SD & 3 DD
Also don’t forget that most locations only serve a single direction. So if the longer route is permanent could you imagine the hassle. I would rather suggest adding an additional bus service (i.e. 905…etc) that serves a different area and gives people an option.
Bendy buses DO use alot of spaces and carry lesser people than double deckers. I for one feel that having a separate bus service (M variant) will work better than your suggestion because extending the route on the main service will mean more people on board and a longer time to reach a destination due to congestion, not the distance. It gives people a choice of which direction they prefer.
I drove both bendy and double deck buses,In terms of seats DD is more but maximum capacity is bendy buses..Yes it would take slightly more but again the deployment should be alternately not sequential type.
SD-BD-SD-SD-BD-SD
But as with such supplimentary service, it always tend to bunch up with the parent service, rendering the extra service redundant. This is always what happen to 912M, a huge waste that should be scrapped from day 1… 903/M always tend to bunch up always, but LTA doesn’t count that as bunching so they just deploying how they like it for the sake of their convenience.
And for bendy buses, the point of it in feeder routes is to have large volumes of people entering and exiting quickly and efficiently. Double deckers have staircases which increase dwell time at bus stops and bus interchange, just go see the disaster that is 806, 3 min run time between 2 bus stops 150 metres away during peak hours, and then you see its fleet, mostly DDs. Another thing is that due to the short distance travelled most peoplw are not willing to go up to the upper deck, rendering the upper deck less useful, so with bendies you have even distrubution of commuters across the bendy bus, giving people more space compared to people crowding on the lower deck of a DD. So despite being slightly longer and using up more space, the dwell times will be shorter than a DD, so the effect is essentially the same, with the bendy bus giving people a more comfortable and faster ride.
M variant that is longer that its parent route
Yes but I think in the future that Service 901 and 901M will integrate
Yes better,900 should be looping at Champions Way while 900M is the original route