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 the then Minister for Transport, Yeo Cheow Tong, on 19 May that year. It has a direct connection from the bus interchange to the Toa Payoh MRT station on the North South line.

Toa Payoh Bus Interchange 大巴窑巴士转换站 Pertukaran Bas Toa Payoh
Public bus
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
General information
Location	530 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310530 Singapore
Owned by	Land Transport Authority
Operated by	SBS Transit Ltd (ComfortDelGro Corporation)
Bus routes	20 (SBS Transit) 1 (Tower Transit)
Bus stands	13 (End-on) 4 (Boarding) 3 (Alighting)
Bus operators	SBS Transit (except Service 143) Tower Transit (Service 143)
Connections	NS19  Toa Payoh
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Disabled access	Accessible alighting/boarding points Accessible public toilets Graduated kerb edges Tactile guidance system
History
Opened	26 December 1983; 38 years ago (1983-12-26) 31 May 1998; 24 years ago (1998-05-31) (Temporary) 19 May 2002; 20 years ago (2002-05-19)
Closed	30 May 1998; 24 years ago (1998-05-30) 18 May 2002; 20 years ago (2002-05-18) (Temporary)
Key dates
26 December 1983	Commenced operations
31 May 1998	Operations shifted to temporary interchange
19 May 2002	Operations shifted back to new and air-conditioned interchange

History

Original interchange

The original interchange was built at a cost of S$2.17 million and opened on 26 December 1983.[1] It replaced a bus terminal that had been in operation since 1971.^{[citation needed]}

Relocation of bus interchange in 1998

When the old Toa Payoh Bus Interchange was demolished on 31 May 1998 to make way for the building of HDB Hub, the new and current headquarters of the Housing and Development Board (HDB) of Singapore, the interchange operator, SBS Transit Ltd, 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 located in HDB Hub

Bus services from the temporary bus interchange moved on 19 May 2002, back to the bus interchange original site, which has a direct underground connection to Toa Payoh MRT station. It is notably the first bus interchange in Singapore to be fully air conditioned[2] and it is housed within the building of HDB Hub.

Anti-terrorism exercise

This bus interchange participated in the Exercise Northstar V on 8 January 2020

Bomb hoax

Similar to other bomb hoaxes at Hougang and Jurong East, 21-year-old Lin Zhenghuang was sentenced to 3 months in jail on 7 February 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 22 July 2005, reporting that there had been a bomb attack at Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.[3]

Bus contracting model

Under the new bus contracting model, all the bus routes were split into 6 route packages: 143 under Bulim, 28 and 31 under Tampines, 90 and 141 under Serangoon-Eunos, 159 and 163 under Sengkang-Hougang, 145 under Bukit Merah and the rest are under Bishan-Toa Payoh bus packages.

References

External links

• Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)
• Media related to Toa Payoh Bus Interchange (category) at Wikimedia Commons