Woodleigh Bus Interchange
{{Short description|Bus Interchange in Woodleigh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Woodleigh Bus Interchange
兀里巴士转换站
Pertukaran Bas Woodleigh
| type = Public Bus Interchange
| image = Woodleigh Bus Interchange 1 May 2025 (1).jpg
| caption =
| address = 203 Bidadari Park Drive, Singapore 360203
| coordinates = {{Coord|01|20|23|N|103|52|17|E}}
| owned = Land Transport Authority
| operator = SBS Transit Ltd (ComfortDelGro Corporation)
| bus_operators = SBS Transit Ltd
| bus_routes = 2 (SBS Transit)
| bus_stands = 2 Alighting Berths (1 Rigid, 1 Articulated)
3 Sawtooth Boarding Berths (1 Articulated, 2 Rigid)
| connections = {{SMRT code|NE|11}} Woodleigh
| structure = Underground
| accessible = Accessible alighting/boarding points
Accessible public toilets
Graduated kerb edges
Tactile guidance system
| opened = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2025|04|20}}{{cite web |last=Loi |first=Esther |title=New Pasir Ris Bus Interchange, delayed Woodleigh Bus Interchange to open in late April |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/new-pasir-ris-bus-interchange-long-delayed-woodleigh-bus-interchange-to-open-in-late-april |website=The Straits Times |access-date=5 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405110306/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/new-pasir-ris-bus-interchange-long-delayed-woodleigh-bus-interchange-to-open-in-late-april |archive-date=5 April 2025 |date=4 April 2025 |url-status=live}}
| years = 20 April 2025
| events = Commenced operations
| mapframe =
}}
Woodleigh Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located at Bidadari, serving residential areas around Bidadari, Joo Seng and Potong Pasir. As Singapore's first air-conditioned underground bus interchange to be built beneath public housing flats, it forms part of the HDB Woodleigh Village mixed-use development, comprising 330 Build-to-Order (BTO) flats, a hawker centre, retail shops and other community amenities. It is also linked with Woodleigh MRT station to form the Woodleigh Integrated Transport Hub.
History
A bus interchange under an upcoming housing estate in Bidadari was first announced in September 2014, then slated to be ready by 2019.{{cite web |title=Bidadari housing estate to have first bus interchange underground |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/bidadari-housing-estate-to-have-first-bus-interchange-underground |website=The Straits Times |access-date=5 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915195436/http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/bidadari-housing-estate-to-have-first-bus-interchange-underground |archive-date=15 September 2015 |url-status=dead}} The opening date was later pushed to 2021, and again in February 2024 to end-2024,{{cite web |last=Liew |first=Isabelle |title=Underground bus interchange in Bidadari to be completed by end-2024 after three-year delay |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/underground-bus-interchange-in-bidadari-to-be-completed-by-end-2024-after-three-year-delay |website=The Straits Times |access-date=5 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225142049/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/underground-bus-interchange-in-bidadari-to-be-completed-by-end-2024-after-three-year-delay |archive-date=25 February 2024 |date=26 February 2024 |url-status=live}} before finally getting a set date of 20 April 2025 earlier that same month, five months after it was handed over to the Land Transport Authority (LTA) by HDB.{{cite web |last=Liew |first=Isabelle |title=HDB handing over long-delayed bus interchange in Bidadari to LTA |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/hdb-handing-over-long-delayed-bus-interchange-in-bidadari-to-lta |website=The Straits Times |access-date=5 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250130102357/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/hdb-handing-over-long-delayed-bus-interchange-in-bidadari-to-lta |archive-date=30 January 2025 |date=30 January 2025 |url-status=live}} Originally named Bidadari Bus Interchange as referenced in LTA's Land Transport Master Plan 2040,{{Cite web |title=LTA LTMP 2040 eReport.pdf |url=https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/dam/ltagov/who_we_are/our_work/land_transport_master_plan_2040/pdf/LTA%20LTMP%202040%20eReport.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210806114432/https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/dam/ltagov/who_we_are/our_work/land_transport_master_plan_2040/pdf/LTA%20LTMP%202040%20eReport.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2021 |access-date=5 April 2025 |publisher=Land Transport Authority |page=62}} it was later renamed as Woodleigh Bus Interchange, after its connecting MRT station of the same name.
Bus Contracting Model
{{see also|Bus contracting model of Singapore}}
Under the Bus Contracting Model, all bus services operating from Woodleigh Bus Interchange are under Serangoon-Eunos Bus Package, operated by the anchor operator, SBS Transit Ltd.
=List of Bus Services=
{{See also|List of bus routes in Singapore}}
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align: left"
! scope="col" | Operator ! scope="col" | Package ! scope="col" | Routes |
| style="background-color:#800080; color: white" | SBS Transit
| Serangoon-Eunos | 146, 148 |
References
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