Toa Payoh Bus Interchange

Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
大巴窑巴士转换站
Stesen Bas Toa Payoh
Commencement Date: 19 May 2002
Number of Gates:
End-on:
Sawtooth:		 17
13
4
Number of Services: 19
Operator: SBS Transit
MRT Station:  NS19  Toa Payoh

Toa Payoh Bus Interchange 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.

Contents

History of Bus Interchange

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.

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.

Anti-Terrorism Exercise

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

Bomb Hoax

Similar to other bomb hoaxes 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]


Routes

Bus Routes in Singapore

Service Gate Destination Gate-Type Note
SBS Transit Trunk Services
8 B4 Tampines Bus Interchange End-on
26 B2 Bedok Bus Interchange End-on
28 C4 Tampines Bus Interchange End-on
31 B1 Tampines Bus Interchange End-on
73 D1 Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange Sawtooth
88 C1 Pasir Ris Bus Interchange End-on
90 B3 Airport Road (loop) End-on
139 A3 Bukit Merah Bus Interchange End-on
142 D2 Potong Pasir Avenue 2 (loop) End-on
143 A2 Jurong East Bus Interchange End-on
145 A4 Buona Vista Bus Terminal End-on
155 C5 Siglap Road (loop) End-on
157 E1 Boon Lay Bus Interchange Sawtooth
159 C2 Sengkang Bus Interchange End-on
163 E1 Sengkang Bus Interchange Sawtooth
SBS Transit Feeder Services
231 E2 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 (loop) Sawtooth
232 D2 Toa Payoh East (loop) Sawtooth
235 D2 Toa Payoh Lorong 3 (loop) Sawtooth
238 D1 Toa Payoh Lorong 8 (loop) Sawtooth

Gates

Gate A1
-
Gate A2
143
Gate A3
139
Gate A4
145
Gate B1
31
Gate B2
26
Gate B3
90
Gate B4
8
Gate C1
88
Gate C2
159
Gate C3
-
Gate C4
28
Gate C5
155
Gate D1
238 73
Gate D2
142 232 235
Gate E1
157 163
Gate E2
231W 231G TC*
WWWW WWWW WWWW WWWW WWWW WWWW

Notes:

- *Turf City Service

References

  1. ^ "Bomb hoax youth gets 3 months' jail, $4,000 fine". Asia Media. 8 February 2007. http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=63294. 
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