Tower Transit Bus Service 965 is a trunk route between Woodlands Temporary Bus Interchange and Buangkok, passing through Admiralty, Gambas Avenue, Yishun, Khatib, SLE, TPE, Compassvale and Sengkang. It is one of several routes plying express along the TPE/SLE corridor.
965
Woodlands Temp Int
→ Buangkok Int
→ Buangkok Int
Buangkok Int
→ Woodlands Temp Int
→ Woodlands Temp Int
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Route  |
Woodlands Temporary Bus Interchange ↔ Buangkok Bus Interchange | |||||||||||
| Passes Through | Woodlands Ave 7, Gambas Ave, Yishun Ave 2, Compassvale St, Sengkang East Way, Sengkang East Rd | |||||||||||
| Route Length | Towards Buangkok: 25.0 km | Towards Woodlands: 24.7 km | ||||||||||
| Travelling Time | 80 mins | |||||||||||
| Operator Information | ||||||||||||
| BCM Route Package | Sembawang–Yishun Bus Package | |||||||||||
| Current Operator | Tower Transit Singapore Pte Ltd (Tower Transit Singapore) |
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| Current Depot | Mandai Bus Depot | |||||||||||
| Current Fleet | Single-deck & Double-deck buses | |||||||||||
| Operating Hours | ||||||||||||
| Departure Times from Woodlands (Temp Bus Int) |
Weekdays & Saturdays | Sundays / Public Holidays | ||||||||||
| 05:15 – 23:30 | 05:30 – 23:30 | |||||||||||
| Departure Times from Buangkok | Weekdays & Saturdays | Sundays / Public Holidays |
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| 05:20 – 23:30 | 05:35 – 23:30 | |||||||||||
| Operating Frequency | ||||||||||||
| From Woodlands | 6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| Weekdays | 10 – 13 mins | 9 – 13 mins | 9 – 13 mins | 10 – 15 mins | ||||||||
| Saturdays | 15 mins | 15 mins | 15 – 16 mins | 14 – 15 mins | ||||||||
| Sundays / Public Holidays | 15 mins | 14 – 16 mins | 17 mins | 16 – 17 mins | ||||||||
| From Buangkok | 6:30am–8.30am | 8.31am–4.59pm | 5.00pm–7.00pm | After 7.00pm | ||||||||
| Weekdays | 11 – 14 mins | 9 – 12 mins | 10 mins | 10 – 12 mins | ||||||||
| Saturdays | 15 mins | 15 mins | 15 – 16 mins | 14 – 15 mins | ||||||||
| Sundays / Public Holidays | 15 mins | 14 – 16 mins | 14 – 17 mins | 17 mins | ||||||||
| Fare Information |
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| Fare | Charges regular distance fares |
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Service 965 is an inter-town route serving between the housing estates of Woodlands, Yishun, Sengkang and Buangkok. The route is frequented as a fast connection between Yishun and Sengkang due to its express sector along the Seletar Expressway (SLE) and Tampines Expressway (TPE).
Between Woodlands and Sengkang, Service 161 offers the faster route by skipping Yishun town entirely.
MRT/LRT Stations Served:
- NS9TE2 Woodlands
- NS10 Admiralty
- NS13 Yishun
- NS14 Khatib
- SE1 Compassvale
- NE16STC Sengkang
- NE15 Buangkok
Special Departures:
- Yishun Ave 2 (Yishun Stn) → Woodlands Temp Int
Weekdays: 06:05, 06:21, 06:32, 06:49, 18:10 & 19:12
Short Trip Service
- Service 965A: Woodlands Temp Int → Yishun Avenue 2 (Opp Yishun Stn)
Weekdays (except Public Holidays): 05:55 – 06:45 & 19:02
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Operator History
- 2002 – 2004: Trans-Island Bus Services Ltd
- 2004 – 18 Sep 2021: SMRT Buses Ltd
- 19 Sep 2021 – Present: Tower Transit Singapore Pte Ltd
Route History
- 2002 (07 Jul): Introduced between Woodlands Reg Int and Sengkang Int
- 2003 (18 Jan): Amended to Sengkang Integrated Transport Hub
- 2005 (11 Sep): Amended to loop at Sengkang Integrated Transport Hub from Woodlands Reg Int
- 2013 (07 Jul): Designated wheelchair-accessible bus service (WAB)
- 2016 (12 Mar): Amended to Woodlands Temp Int
- 2020 (22 Mar): Serves new pair of bus stops before & after Sembawang Ave along Gambas Ave
- 2021 (19 Sep): Operations transferred to Tower Transit under the Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package
- 2021 (03 Oct): Serves a new pair of bus stops before and opposite Gambas Cres along Gambas Ave
- 2026 (28 Mar): Amended to ply an extended section of Woodlands Ave 7 & Woodlands Ave 10 with the partial closure of Gambas Ave to facilitate the construction of North-South Corridor.
- 2026 (24 May): Converted to a bi-directional service with the route extension to Buangkok Int; Amended to ply Woodlands Ave 9, Woodlands St 82 & Woodlands Ave 4, skipping part of Woodlands Ave 7; First bus timing daily from Woodlands Temp Int brought forward by 15 mins
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Sometimes B5LH make debuts on 965
they should bring it in to WITH because so weird to have 1 TTS along with 3 SMRT in WTBI
Must become a bidirectional service
Agreed but however, Sengkang Bus Interchange is quite damn smaller as planned. As a small bus interchange, Sengkang Bus Interchange parking lots will not have enough parking lots for SMRT 965. If you think Sengkang is not small, then tell me why 110 and 374 terminated at Compassvale instead of Sengkang?
SMRT 965 may be unlikely to go for bidirectional service as at Sengkang, SMRT 965 helped to be at the bus interchange faster, without the need to take a long break at Sengkang for SMRT Captains. Please understand that SMRT 965 is shorter than SMRT Services 966, 969, 858 & 963, so is still okay for SMRT Captains to continue SMRT 965 return direction from Sengkang. That’s why Sengkang Bus Interchange only have SBS Transit Counter Service.
Extend it to Compassvale, lah.
If look at the route of 965, it already go beyond Compassvale Bus Interchange.
Then extend it to either Punggol or Hougang
Then extend it to either Punggol, Hougang or even Buangkok ITH when it’s opened*
Looks like sengkang interchange has no space for bendy Buses.
It’s alr fortunate 965 have deployed double decker buses almost everyday, but lower amount on Weekends & Public Holidays. However do bare in mind, most of residents on 965 comes from Yishun as Woodlands residents will rather take a direct 161 to Sengkang.
Now got 2 perm MAN A95