Boon Lay Bus Interchange
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Boon Lay Bus Interchange
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Commencement Date: 27 December 2009
Number of Berths:
End-on:
Sawtooth:
17
11
6
Number of Services:
SBS Transit:
SMRT Buses:
31
27
4
Operators: SBS Transit
SBS Transit
SBS Transit Limited is a public transport operator in Singapore. Its major competitor in Singapore's duopoly transport system is SMRT Corporation, which also operates bus, rail, taxi and other transport services....

/SMRT Buses
SMRT Buses
SMRT Buses is a public bus transport operator in Singapore. Singapore currently hosts a duopoly transport system in which SMRT's only competitor is SBS Transit, which also operates bus services in Singapore...

MRT Station: Boon Lay
Boon Lay MRT Station
Boon Lay MRT Station ' is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Jurong, Singapore.The station currently serves residents living in Boon Lay, Pioneer, Gek Poh, Nanyang and people working in Tuas,Tuas South,Pioneer Sector,Jurong Hill,Jurong Pier,Lok Yang,Benoi and Gul.In...



The Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Pioneer
Pioneer, Singapore
Pioneer is a residential precinct in Jurong, named after the Pioneer Sector industrial estate located south of the precinct.It is managed by West Coast Town Council and the people are represented in parliament by either Cedric Foo Chee Keng or Lawrence Wong, depending on where they...

, in the western part of Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. It is situated within the Jurong Point Shopping Mall
Jurong Point Shopping Mall
Jurong Point is a suburban shopping mall located in Jurong West, Singapore. It is situated next to Boon Lay MRT Station and Boon Lay Bus Interchange...

 and is integrated with the nearby Boon Lay MRT Station
Boon Lay MRT Station
Boon Lay MRT Station ' is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Jurong, Singapore.The station currently serves residents living in Boon Lay, Pioneer, Gek Poh, Nanyang and people working in Tuas,Tuas South,Pioneer Sector,Jurong Hill,Jurong Pier,Lok Yang,Benoi and Gul.In...

. This interchange serves a variety of passengers, including those from Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore with the biggest campus in Singapore and the world's largest engineering college. Its lush 200-hectare Yunnan Garden campus was the Youth Olympic Village of the world's first 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in...

 and workers at Jurong Industrial Estate and Tuas Industrial Estate. Operated by SBS Transit
SBS Transit
SBS Transit Limited is a public transport operator in Singapore. Its major competitor in Singapore's duopoly transport system is SMRT Corporation, which also operates bus, rail, taxi and other transport services....

, this interchange has 33 bus services and it is the biggest in terms of bus services and the busiest bus interchange in Singapore.

This interchange resembles Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
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...

 at its end-on berths, Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange
Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange
Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 Bus Interchange is located in Ang Mo Kio Town Centre, Singapore. The interchange is presently within AMK Hub, a newly-built shopping centre which is in turn linked to the Ang Mo Kio MRT Station via a pedestrian underpass below Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8.The interchange is the third to be...

 at its sawtooth berths and Sengkang Bus Interchange
Sengkang Bus Interchange
Sengkang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located on the ground storey of Compass Heights condominium in the town centre of Sengkang New Town. Located next to Sengkang MRT/LRT Station...

 at its bus bay.

History

Boon Lay Bus Interchange began operations on 1 July 1990 with services that used to terminate at the former Jurong Bus Interchange at Jurong Port Rd and Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Jurong East, Singapore...

 being re-routed to terminate there. That time, the Jurong West
Jurong West
Jurong West is a neighbourhood in Singapore, bounded by the Pan Island Expressway, the eastern edge of Jurong Camp, Boon Lay Way, Corporation Road, Fourth Chin Bee Road, International Road, Corporation Road, Ayer Rajah Expressway, Yuan Ching Road, Boon Lay Way, and along a Canal leading into Jurong...

 extension and Tuas Industrial area was still largely under development. As the both areas develop, more bus services were introduced and by the early 2000s, there were about 30 bus services terminating at the interchange.

That time, there used to be an empty land beside the former interchange. In 2006, the land where the former interchange sits at and the land beside it was sold together as a 'White site' to Prime Point Development Pte. Ltd. and soon the land where the former interchange sits at was acquired to construct the Jurong Point Extension.
From 18 June 2006 to 26 December 2009, the interchange had it operations temporarily next to Boon Lay MRT station, at a empty plot of land surrounded by Boon Lay Way and Jurong West Street 64 while the bus interchange was being rebuilt as part of the Jurong Point
Jurong Point Shopping Mall
Jurong Point is a suburban shopping mall located in Jurong West, Singapore. It is situated next to Boon Lay MRT Station and Boon Lay Bus Interchange...

 extension project and this project consisted of the extension of Jurong Point(JP2),the new Boon Lay Bus Interchange and a 16-storey condominium that is known as 'The Centris'.

On 27 December 2009, the interchange moved back to its original location and all operations (except for bus services 179, 179A and 199 which continued to operate at the temporary interchange till 7 May 2010) resumed at the re-constructed interchange located along Jurong West Central 3. Built over 20,000 square metres, it is Singapore's fourth air-conditioned bus interchange and the first along the East West MRT Line
East West MRT Line
The East West Line was the 2nd Mass Rapid Transit line in Singapore. The line is currently 49.2 km long with 35 stations , making it the longest MRT line in Singapore. It takes about 63 minutes to travel from one end to the other...

. In total, it has 60 bus bays and 31 boarding/alighting wheelchair accessible berths with 22 of them being end-on and 9 of them being sawtooth (6 for boarding and 3 for alighting). Together with Boon Lay MRT Station and Jurong Point, it is part of the Boon Lay Integrated Public Transport Hub.

Routes

Service Berth Destination Berth-Type Note
SBS Transit Trunk Services
30 B13 Bedok Bus Interchange
Bedok Bus Interchange
Bedok Bus Interchange is a bus station serving Bedok New Town in Singapore. The bus interchange was completed in the 1980s, and is centrally located, just north of the Bedok MRT Station. The interchange, with the allocated block number of 207A, is located near a food center and a community...

 
End-on
79 B14 Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Jurong East, Singapore...

 
End-on
154 B11 Eunos Bus Interchange
Eunos Bus Interchange
Eunos Bus Interchange is a small bus interchange located in Eunos, Singapore. It is located and built just outside the Eunos MRT Station. It is surrounded by Eunos Rd 2, Eunos Ave 1 and Sims Avenue...

 
End-on
157 B7 Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
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...

 
End-on
174 B16 New Bridge Road Bus Terminal
New Bridge Road Bus Terminal
New Bridge Road Bus Terminal is a bus station in Eu Tong Sen Street, near Chinatown and Singapore General Hospital in Singapore. It is near Outram Park MRT Station. This bus terminal has an alighting berth after the entrance of the bus park. No boarding facilities are available at the terminal,...

 
End-on
179 B1/B3 Nanyang Drive (loop) Sawtooth
181 B2 Jurong West Avenue 3 (loop) Sawtooth
182 B3 Tuas South Avenue 9 (loop) Sawtooth
182M B3 Tuas South Avenue 9 (loop) Sawtooth
192 B2 Tuas Bus Terminal
Tuas Bus Terminal
Tuas Bus Terminal is a bus station located in Tuas at the western part of Singapore. Operated by SBS Transit, this terminal serves industrial workers at Jurong Industrial Estate and Tuas Industrial Estate from Boon Lay Bus Interchange....

 
Sawtooth
193 B1 Tuas Bus Terminal
Tuas Bus Terminal
Tuas Bus Terminal is a bus station located in Tuas at the western part of Singapore. Operated by SBS Transit, this terminal serves industrial workers at Jurong Industrial Estate and Tuas Industrial Estate from Boon Lay Bus Interchange....

 
Sawtooth
194 B5 Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim (loop) Sawtooth
198 B9 Bukit Merah Bus Interchange
Bukit Merah Bus Interchange
The Bukit Merah Bus Interchange serves the and the interchange is located at Jalan Bukit Merah.-Routes:Bus Routes in Singapore-Berths:...

 
End-on
199 B4 Nanyang Crescent (loop) Sawtooth
246 B15 Boon Lay Drive (loop) End-on
249 B12 Jalan Samulun (loop) End-on
251 B8 Benoi Road (loop) End-on
252 B10 Joo Koon Road (loop) End-on
254 B5 Tuas Avenue 11 (loop) Sawtooth
255 B6 Gul Crescent (loop) Sawtooth
257 B4 Pioneer Sector 2 (loop) Sawtooth
405 B3 Old Choa Chu Kang Road (loop) Sawtooth
SBS Transit Fast Forward Service
174e B17 New Bridge Road Bus Terminal
New Bridge Road Bus Terminal
New Bridge Road Bus Terminal is a bus station in Eu Tong Sen Street, near Chinatown and Singapore General Hospital in Singapore. It is near Outram Park MRT Station. This bus terminal has an alighting berth after the entrance of the bus park. No boarding facilities are available at the terminal,...

 
End-on
SBS Transit Feeder Services
240 B6 Corporation Road (loop) Sawtooth
241 B2 Jurong West Street 92 (loop) Sawtooth
242 B1 Jurong West Avenue 5 (loop) Sawtooth
243 B3/B4 Pioneer Road North (loop) Sawtooth
SMRT Buses Trunk Services
172 B6 Choa Chu Kang Bus Interchange
Choa Chu Kang Bus Interchange
The Choa Chu Kang Bus Interchange is a local bus interchange which mainly serves the residential neighbourhood of Choa Chu Kang. Located at Choa Chu Kang Loop and connected to the Choa Chu Kang MRT/LRT Station and the Lot One Shoppers' Mall, the interchange is operated under SMRT...

 
Sawtooth
178 B5 Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange was completed and opened along with the Woodlands extension of the North South MRT Line in 1996. It is the first underground bus interchange, and one of the biggest in Singapore...

 
Sawtooth
180 B6 Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange
Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange
The Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange serving Bukit Panjang New Town, Singapore. It is opposite Bukit Panjang Plaza. The nearest station is the Bukit Panjang LRT Station....

 
Sawtooth
187 B5 Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange was completed and opened along with the Woodlands extension of the North South MRT Line in 1996. It is the first underground bus interchange, and one of the biggest in Singapore...

Sawtooth

Berths

Berth B1
242 193 179A
Berth B2
241 192 181
Berth B3
179 182/182M 243G 405
Berth B4
243W 257 199
Berth B5
178 187 254 194
Berth B6
180 172 240 255
Berth B7
157
Berth B8
251
Berth B9
198
Berth B10
252
Berth B11
154
Berth B12
249
Berth B13
30
Berth B14
79
Berth B15
246
Berth B16
174
Berth B17
174e
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