McDonald's Place
11 King Albert Park
Singapore 598292
Opposite Bukit Timah Plaza, at the corner of Clementi and Bukit Timah Road is King Albert Park. Here one can find the McDonald's Place, headquarters of the international fast food chain, McDonald's. It is also a popular haunt for students in the vicinity and one of the few fast food outlets with a 24-hour drive-through in Singapore.
This very site at 61/2 miles Bukit Timah Road used to be the terminal and service depot for the Green Bus Company. Buses were first introduced in Singapore around 1930 as a replacement to the trolleybus. The main operator was the colonial establishment known as the Singapore Traction Company. However, at the same time in the early 1930s, small Chinese family-owned companies began operating private bus services known as the 'mosquito buses' which were nicknamed for the way they weaved in and out of traffic. The Green Bus Company was one of them. It was well known for its bus service from its Queen Street terminal to Johor Bahru, Malaysia via Bukit Timah Road. It served largely the rural areas north of the city with many of its bus services catering to the Bukit Timah area. However, the reign of the Chinese bus companies came to an end in the 1970s when the government created the Singapore Bus Services (SBS) to centralise the public transport system in Singapore.