Singapore Buses route 17A

Service 17A is a short-working trip for 17, running from Waringin Walk and terminating at the St Anthony's Canossian Primary School.

It helps to ease high demand for its parent service between Bedok Interchange and Bedok North Avenue 4. It originally operated only during weekday AM and PM Peak hours, adding extra capacity to Service 17’s residential sectors within the Bedok estate.

From 16 November 2014, Service 17A was converted into a full-day service under the BSEP, with additional BSEP buses supplemented but no change in route. This is the third time that an extension of service hours has been classified under the BSEP, after Service 63M and 859A.

The extension of operating hours will improve connectivity for residents in the Bedok North area to Bedok Bus Interchange and Bedok MRT Station. Access to amenities such as Bedok Polyclinic and Kampong Chai Chee CC, and schools such as Fengshan Primary, St. Anthony Canossian Primary and St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary will also be improved.

As a route variant of Service 17, this service is wheelchair-accessible as of introduction. However, SBS Transit will be officially declaring the BSEP enhanced Service 17A to be wheelchair accessible from 03 December 2014. Hence this service is not wheelchair accessible from 16 November till 03 December 2014. As an interesting fact, the route is also a duplication of Feeder service 227 (Bedok Int – Bedok North Depot (Loop)), which was withdrawn in 2002.

Go-Ahead Takeover
With Go-Ahead taking over Service 17A from 18 September 2016, Service 17A will no longer terminate and start at Bedok North Depot. The first and last stop of Bus Service 17A will be Bedok North Ave 4 (Opp SBST Bedok Bus Pk) & Bedok North Ave 4 (SBST Bedok Bus Pk) respectively, that is for alternate trips.

Under Go-Ahead, ‘Service 17A’ buses continue to run bidirectionally between Bedok North Avenue 4 and Bedok Interchange throughout the day, but for the first leg of the journey (Bedok North Avenue 4 → Bedok Int), buses will operate as Service 17. Upon reaching the interchange, these buses will switch over to Service 17A for the return journey (Bedok Int → Bedok North Avenue 4). With the change of routing, it will off service via Simei Avenue, Upper Changi Road East, Upper Changi Link and Upper Changi Road.