Serangoon Bus Interchange
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Serangoon Bus Interchange
实龙岗巴士转换站
Stesen Bas Serangoon
Commencement Date: 03 September 2011
Number of Sawtooth Berths: 3
Number of Services: 8
Operator: 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....

MRT Station:  NE12  CC13  Serangoon
Serangoon MRT Station
Serangoon MRT Station ' is an underground interchange station on the North East Line and the Circle Line in Singapore. The station is located in the Serangoon Central area, at the intersection of Upper Serangoon Road and Serangoon Central...



Serangoon Bus Interchange (Chinese: 实龙岗巴士转换站) is a bus station
Bus station
A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop...

 serving Serangoon New Town
Serangoon New Town
Serangoon New Town is a new town in north-eastern Singapore and bounded by Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, the Central Expressway, Bradell Road, Bartley Road, Upper Paya Lebar Road, Upper Serangoon Road, and Yio Chu Kang Road back to Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5...

 in 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...

, and is within walking distance from Serangoon MRT Station
Serangoon MRT Station
Serangoon MRT Station ' is an underground interchange station on the North East Line and the Circle Line in Singapore. The station is located in the Serangoon Central area, at the intersection of Upper Serangoon Road and Serangoon Central...

. Opened on 3 September 2011 and 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....

, it is the smallest air-conditioned bus interchange in Singapore with 8 services and 17 bus bays. It is also the second air-conditioned bus interchange to open along the North East Line and the first on the Circle Line
Circle Line
The Circle line, coloured yellow on the tube map, is the eighth busiest line on the London Underground. It forms a loop line around the centre of London on the north side of the River Thames with, since 13 December 2009, an extension to Hammersmith on its north-western side.-History:The route now...

.

When the shopping mall nex
Nex
Nex is a suburban shopping mall in Serangoon, within the North-East Region of Singapore. The largest mall in the Northeast region and one of the largest suburban malls in the country, it has an integrated air-conditioned Serangoon Bus Interchange, the fifth bus interchange in Singapore which is...

opened on 25 November 2010, the old bus interchange continued to operate due to congestion at Serangoon Avenue 2, carpark problems and large crowds in the shopping mall. On 3 September 2011, it was relocated to the new bus interchange within the shopping mall directly above Circle Line
Circle MRT Line
The Circle Line is Singapore's fourth Mass Rapid Transit line, operated by SMRT Corporation. This underground line is currently long with 28 stations and is fully automatically operated...

 Serangoon MRT Station
Serangoon MRT Station
Serangoon MRT Station ' is an underground interchange station on the North East Line and the Circle Line in Singapore. The station is located in the Serangoon Central area, at the intersection of Upper Serangoon Road and Serangoon Central...

, making it the fifth bus interchange to be air-conditioned and the second along the North East Line and first along the Circle Line
Circle MRT Line
The Circle Line is Singapore's fourth Mass Rapid Transit line, operated by SMRT Corporation. This underground line is currently long with 28 stations and is fully automatically operated...

. The new facility was the first to have glass walls instead of cement walls facing the bus bays, allowing commuters to be aware of the departure of buses, which is what lacks in the earlier airconditioned bus interchanges.

Services

Bus Routes in Singapore
Bus Routes in Singapore
This is a list of the bus routes in Singapore. All times stated in this table are GMT+8 .-Types:* Trunk: Routes that ply between towns....


Service Berth Destination Note
SBS Transit Trunk Services
100 B3 Ghim Moh Bus Terminal
Ghim Moh Bus Terminal
Ghim Moh Bus Terminal is a bus station located in Ghim Moh along Ghim Moh Road with a small bus park behind the terminal.The terminal is now one of the few surviving terminals of the 1970s era in which it was common for terminals to built along the road side with only a small booth for drivers to...

 
101 B3 Buangkok Link (loop)
103 B1 West Camp Road (loop)
105 B2 Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Jurong East, Singapore...

 
109 B2 Changi Village Bus Terminal
Changi Village Bus Terminal
Changi Village Bus Terminal is a bus station located in Changi Village, Singapore.The bus station comprises a small queue area for the buses services, similar to a bus stop, opposite the bus park, all passengers also alight at the queue area too...

 
158 B3 Rhu Cross (loop)
SBS Transit Feeder Services
315 B1 Serangoon North Avenue 5 (loop)
317 B2 Berwick Drive (loop)

Berths

Berth B1
103 315
Berth B2
105 109 317
Berth B3
100 101 158
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2003 Bus increment

When the North-East line opened, SBS services 81, 82 and 103 were diverted here from New Bridge Road, Shenton Way and New Bridge Road respectively while SMRT service 106 was diverted to Marina Centre Terminal and SBS Service 107 was extended to Hougang. SBS services 101 and 109 were created, going to Buangkok Drive and Changi Village respectively.
However in 2011, 81 and 82 were amended to loop at Serangoon Central/MRT/nex
Nex
Nex is a suburban shopping mall in Serangoon, within the North-East Region of Singapore. The largest mall in the Northeast region and one of the largest suburban malls in the country, it has an integrated air-conditioned Serangoon Bus Interchange, the fifth bus interchange in Singapore which is...

instead of terminating at the Interchange. 81 goes to Tampines Interchange while 82 terminates at Punggol Interchange.84 was introduced from Punggol Interchange to loop at Punggol Point to serve as replacement for 82.
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