Toa Payoh Bus Interchange

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Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
大巴窑巴士转换站

Toa Payoh Bus Interchange

Commencement date: 19 May 2002
Number of berths:
End-on berths:
Sawtooth berths:
18
14
4
Number of services: 20
Operated by: SBS Transit
Nearest MRT/LRT Station: Toa Payoh MRT Station

Toa Payoh Bus Interchange (Chinese: 大巴窑巴士转换站) is located in Toa Payoh, Singapore. It is the first air-conditioned bus interchange in the country, which was completed in 2002 and officially opened by then Transport Minister, Yeo Cheow Tong, on 19 May 2002. The bus interchange has only services of SBS Transit and is managed by the company itself. It has a direct connection from the bus interchange to the Toa Payoh MRT Station on the North South Line.

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[edit] History of Bus Interchange

[edit] Relocation of Bus Interchange in 1999

When the old Toa Payoh Bus Interchange was demolished in 1999 to make way for the building of HDB Hub, the new and current headquarters of the Housing and Development Board of Singapore, the interchange's operator, SBS Transit, moved its bus operations to a temporary location opposite its original site located at Toa Payoh Town Park, which was upgraded after the temporary interchange was demolished.

[edit] Bus Interchange currently in HDB Hub

SBS Transit, the operator of Bus Interchange, ended bus operations to the Temporary Bus Interchange in 19 May 2002 and moved its services back to the bus interchange's original site, which has a direct connection to the MRT Station below it. It is notably the first bus interchange in Singapore to be fully air-conditioned and it is housed within the building of HDB Hub.

[edit] Anti-Terrorism Exercise

This bus interchange participated in the Exercise Northstar V on January 8, 2006.

[edit] Bomb Hoax

Just like the Bomb Hoax at Hougang MRT Station and Jurong East MRT Station, 21-year-old Lin Zhenghuang was sentenced to 3 months in jail on Feb 7 2007 and fined S$4000 for eight charges under the Computer Misuse Act. The charges were for 'mooching' or illegally tapping into his neighbour's unsecured wireless internet network and posting a bomb hoax on an online forum of popular technology site HardwareZone.

Lin previously pleaded guilty to one charge under the Telecommunications Act for transmitting a false message and nine charges under the Computer Misuse Act.

The accused posted a message on July 22 2006, reporting that there had been a bomb attack at Toa Payoh Bus Interchange. [1]


[edit] Routes

Service Gate Destination Notes
SBS Transit Trunk Services
8 B4 Tampines Bus Interchange
26 B2 Bedok Bus Interchange Euro IV Handicapped/disabled access
28 C4 Tampines Bus Interchange
31 B1 Tampines Bus Interchange
73 D1 Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange
88 C1 Pasir Ris Bus Interchange Euro III Handicapped/disabled access
90 B3 Airport Road (Loop) *90A: Terminates At Airport Road (KB Warehouse Complex)
139 A3 Bukit Merah Bus Interchange
142 D2 Potong Pasir Ave 1 (Loop)
143 A2 Jurong East Bus Interchange Wheelchair Accessible Bus Service (WAB) Euro III Handicapped/disabled access
145 A4 Buona Vista Bus Terminal
155 C5 Siglap Road (Loop) *155A: Terminates At Marine Parade Road (Victoria School)
157 E1 Boon Lay Bus Interchange
159 C2 Sengkang Bus Interchange
163 E1 Sengkang Bus Interchange
SBS Transit Feeder Services
231G E2 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 (Loop)
231W E2 Toa Payoh Lorong 4 (Loop)
232 D2 Toa Payoh Lorong 2 (Loop) Euro IV Handicapped/disabled access
235 D2 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 (loop)
238 D1 Toa Payoh Lorong 8 (Loop) Euro IV Handicapped/disabled access
SBS Transit Premium Services
535 Fullerton Road Service revenues at Toa Payoh Lorong 8

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Bomb hoax youth gets 3 months' jail, $4,000 fine", Asia Media, 8 Feb 2007. 

[edit] External links


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