HarbourFront Bus Interchange

{{Short description|Bus interchange located in Bukit Merah, Singapore}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = HarbourFront Bus Interchange
港湾巴士转换站
Pertukaran Bas HarbourFront

| type = 150px
Public Bus Interchange

| image = HabourFront Bus Interchange at night.jpg

| caption = Interior of HarbourFront Bus Interchange at night

| address = 4 Seah Im Road, Singapore 099115

| owned = Land Transport Authority

| operator = SBS Transit Ltd (ComfortDelGro Corporation)

| bus_routes = 5 (SBS Transit Ltd)
2 (SMRT Buses Ltd)
3 (Tower Transit Singapore Pte Ltd)

| bus_stands = 12 (boarding)
12 (alighting)

| bus_operators = SBS Transit Ltd
SMRT Buses Ltd
Tower Transit Singapore Pte Ltd

| connections = {{SMRT code|NE|1|CC|29}} HarbourFront

| structure = At-grade

| accessible = Accessible alighting/boarding points
Accessible public toilets
Graduated kerb edges
Tactile guidance system

| opened = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1985|1|13}}

| years = 13 January 1985

| events = Commenced operations

| mapframe =

}}

HarbourFront Bus Interchange is located within HarbourFront along Seah Im Road off Telok Blangah Road in Bukit Merah planning area, Singapore. The interchange serves the nearby residential estates of Telok Blangah and Bukit Purmei and also the HarbourFront commercial district, including HarbourFront Centre and VivoCity. The interchange is directly connected to Seah Im Food Centre and HarbourFront MRT station. It is the southernmost bus interchange in Singapore.

History

The interchange commenced operations on 13 January 1985 with 5 services and was initially named 'World Trade Centre Bus Terminal' until it was subsequently renamed to its present name in 2003, alongside the renaming of the World Trade Centre to HarbourFront. {{Cite news|url=https://remembersingapore.org/2012/10/28/singapore-old-bus-interchanges-terminals/|title=Those Years When We Waited For Our Buses Together|date=2012-10-28|work=Remember Singapore|access-date=2018-06-16|language=en-US}}

Bus contracting model

Under the new bus contracting model, all the bus routes buses were split into 6 route packages - 855, 963 and 963e under Sembawang-Yishun, 188 and 188e under Choa Chu Kang-Bukit Panjang, 124 under Bishan-Toa Payoh, 80 under Sengkang-Hougang, 65 under Tampines, and 93 and 123M under Bukit Merah Bus Packages.

=List of routes=

class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align: left"

!Operator

!Package

!Routes

rowspan=4 style="background-color:#7A45EA; color: white"|SBS Transit

|Bishan-Toa Payoh

|124

Bukit Merah

|93, 123M

Tampines

|65

Sengkang-Hougang

|80

style="background-color:#DB3B26; color: white"|SMRT Buses

|Choa Chu Kang-Bukit Panjang

|188, 188e

style="background-color:#54AF32; color: white"|Tower Transit Singapore

|Sembawang-Yishun

|855, 963, 963e

References

External links

[http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/transport/trpt_bus_inter.aspx Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120717005733/http://www.smrt.com.sg/Buses/eBusGuide.aspx#tabs-bus-4 Interchange/Terminal (SMRT Buses)]

Category:Transport infrastructure completed in 1985

Category:1985 establishments in Singapore

Category:Bus stations in Singapore

Category:Bukit Merah

Category:Buildings and structures in Central Region, Singapore