Buses
SMRT Buses owns more than 900 buses and operates more than 100 bus services in Singapore.
In 2008, SMRT Buses initiated a fleet replacement to replace the retiring Nissan Diesel U31RCN buses with 134 Mercedes-Benz OC500LE wheelchair-accessible buses. All of the buses are equipped with the new Passenger-In-Bus announcement systems.
In 2009, SMRT Buses was handed over a Mercedes-Benz Citaro demonstrator bus, registered as SMB136C. SMRT Buses then placed a purchase of 50 new Mercedes-Benz Citaro production batch buses. All of them entered revenue service as of 25 November 2011.
In 2010, SMRT Buses received a MAN NL323F demonstrator bus, registered as SMB138Y. It entered revenue service on 23 December 2010.
In July 2011, SMRT Buses placed an order of 200 MAN NL323F buses from ST Kinetics after a successful trial of the demonstrator. The buses began revenue service in October 2011.
Wheelchair-accessible buses – MAN NL323F buses are used for Bus Service Enhancement Programme (BSEP) since 17 September 2012.
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