Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
{{Short description|Bus station in Singapore}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
大巴窑巴士转换站
Pertukaran Bas Toa Payoh
| type = Public Bus Interchange
| image = Toa Payoh Bus interchange 20201209 143855.jpg
| caption = Interior of the bus interchange.
| address = 530 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310530
| coordinates = {{Coord|1|36|23|N|104|25|24|E}}
| owned = Land Transport Authority
| operator = SBS Transit Ltd (ComfortDelGro Corporation)
| bus_operators = SBS Transit Ltd
Tower Transit Singapore Pte Ltd
| bus_routes = 20 (SBS Transit)
1 (Tower Transit Singapore)
| bus_stands = 4 Sawtooth
14 End-on
| connections = {{SMRT code|NS|19}} Toa Payoh
| structure = At-grade
| accessible = Accessible alighting/boarding points
Accessible public toilets
Graduated kerb edges
Tactile guidance system
| opened = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1983|12|26}} (Old)
{{Start date and age|df=yes|1998|05|31}} (Temporary)
{{Start date and age|df=yes|2002|05|19}} (Integrated Transport Hub)
| closed = {{End date and age|df=yes|1998|05|30}} (Old)
{{End date and age|df=yes|2002|05|18}} (Temporary)
| years = 26 December 1983
| events = Commenced operations
| years1 = 31 May 1998
| events1 = Operations transferred to Temporary bus interchange
| years2 = 19 May 2002
| events2 = Operations transferred to new and air-conditioned bus interchange as Integrated Transport Hub
| mapframe =
}}
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located at Toa Payoh Town Centre, serving the town of Toa Payoh and Braddell. At the time of opening on 19 May 2002 by then Minister for Transport, Yeo Cheow Tong, it is the first air-conditioned bus interchange in Singapore, integrated within the Toa Payoh HDB Hub and built on top of Toa Payoh MRT station.
History
=Original interchange=
The original interchange was built at a cost of S$2.17 million and opened on 26 December 1983.{{cite news |author= |title=Quiet start at Toa Payoh interchange|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19831227-1.2.17.12|work=The Straits Times |date=27 December 1983 |access-date=27 September 2017|via=NewspaperSG }} It replaced a bus terminal that had been in operation since 1971.{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}
=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{{Cite web|title=Speech By Mr Yeo Cheow Tong At The Opening Of The First Airconditioned Bus Interchange At Toa Payoh Sunday on 19 May 2002|url=http://www.mot.gov.sg/news-centre/news/Detail/Speech%20By%20Mr%20Yeo%20Cheow%20Tong%20At%20The%20Opening%20Of%20The%20First%20Airconditioned%20Bus%20Interchange%20At%20Toa%20Payoh%20Sunday%20on%2019%20May%202002/|access-date=7 October 2021|website=www.mot.gov.sg|language=en}} and it is housed within the building of HDB Hub.
=Counter-terrorism exercise=
{{Main|Counter-terrorism in Singapore#Exercise Northstar V}}
The Toa Payoh Bus Interchange participated in the Exercise Northstar V counter-terrorism exercise on 8 January 2006, which simulated a terrorist bomb attack on various transport infrastructure, including MRT stations and bus interchanges.{{cite news |date=3 January 2006 |title=Twenty-two agencies in Exercise Northstar V ready for action |publisher=Channel NewsAsia |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/186433/1/.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001043739/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/186433/1/.html |archive-date=1 October 2007}}
=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. {{cite news | title = Bomb hoax youth gets 3 months' jail, $4,000 fine | publisher = Asia Media | date = 8 February 2007 | url = http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=63294 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081212201736/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=63294 | archive-date = 12 December 2008 }}
Bus Contracting Model
{{see also|Bus contracting model of Singapore}}
Under the Bus Contracting Model, all bus services operating from Toa Payoh Bus Interchange were divided into 6 Bus Packages, operated by two different bus operators.
=List of Bus Services=
{{See also|List of bus routes in Singapore}}
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align: left"
|+ !Operator !Package !Routes |
| rowspan=5 style="background-color:#800080; color: white" |SBS Transit
|Bishan-Toa Payoh |8, 26, 73, 88, 139/139A, 142/142A, 155, 157, 231, 232, 235, 238 |
| Bukit Merah
|145 |
| Sengkang-Hougang
|159, 163 |
| Serangoon-Eunos
|90, 141 |
| Tampines
|28, 31 |
| style="background-color:#008000; color: white" |Tower Transit Singapore
|Bulim |143 |
Bus Service 73 does not terminate at Toa Payoh Interchange. Instead, Bus Service 73 does not layover and loops in the interchange back to Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange.
References
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External links
- [http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/transport/trpt_bus_inter.aspx Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)]
- {{Commons and category-inline|Toa Payoh Bus Interchange|Toa Payoh Bus Interchange}}
{{Singapore bus stations|state=expanded}}
Category:Transport infrastructure completed in 1983