Staggered Bus Stops

Staggered bus stops are commonly found in the city, along roads which experience high volumes of vehicular and human traffic. They help disperse traffic by grouping bus services which are heading towards a similar general direction. By separating route groups and allocating separate bus stops for each group, commuters can be spread out into different bus stops while still having multiple bus services to their destinations.

Not all services are staggered. Services like Fast-Forwards, Chinatown Directs, Nite Owls and Nightriders do not stagger their stops. Sometimes, regular bus routes call at staggered stops not allocated to their route group because they are unable to call at the subsequent stop (Hill Street has a number of cases).

Special Cases
All services plying Robinson Road call at 03111 Aft Capital Twr, but not all services call at the following stop, 03071 Opp The Ogilvy Ctr. The subsequent stop, 03031 Opp AIA Twr, is served by all services continuing to Fullerton Road. This is because there used to be another bus stop in-between 03031 Opp AIA Twr and 03011 Fullerton Sq, which functioned as a staggered bus stop only for services which serves 03071 Opp The Ogilvy Ctr but not 03031 Opp AIA Twr. Whereas another group of services would only serve 03031 Opp AIA Twr and 03011 Fullerton Sq. With the abolishing of that bus stop, all services were then made to serve 03031 Opp AIA Twr.

Along Thomson Road (51071 MacRitchie Reservoir), there are two bus stop bays serving different bus services. Services turning left towards Upper Thomson Road are served by the inner bus bay, whereas services heading straight towards Braddell Road are served by the outer bus bay.

At Jalan Kayu roundabout, 68111 Bef Seletar Camp G shares two bus stops, one for Service 103 and the other for Services 39, 86, 168 and 858 due to road constraints.