Singapore Buses route 853

Service 853 is a trunk route linking Yishun Interchange and Lorong 1 Geylang Terminal, passing through Lentor, Ang Mo Kio, Serangoon and Geylang Bahru. During Sundays and Public Holidays, Service 853 will ply an extended route terminating at Upper East Coast Terminal instead, via Geylang, Tanjong Katong and Marine Parade, and is denoted as Service 853# or 853C.

Service 853 is an inter-town route serving between the housing estates of Yishun, Ang Mo Kio, Serangoon and Geylang Bahru. The route is frequented as a popular connection between various housing estates as an alternative to the MRT network, serving Yishun, Ang Mo Kio and Serangoon Town Centres. As such, it benefits from moderate to high demand throughout the day, but high capacity double-deck / articulated buses are not deployed as wheelchair-accessible rigid buses are capable of coping with daily loads.

This is the only route that uses Dennis Lances, till it was withdrawn (and also, several on route 169 which comes from AMDEP). These were replaced by OC500LEs and Citaros released when SMRT had delivered MAN NL323Fs.

History

 * 13 Feb 2011: Introduced to ply from Yishun Blk 706, to ply Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, serving the newly opened Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
 * 10 Aug 2014: Amended to serve Yishun Temp Polyclinic via Yishun Ctrl and Yishun Ctrl 1
 * 14 Mar 2015: Amended to Yishun Temporary Bus Interchange.