Toa Payoh Bus Interchange 大巴窑巴士转换站 Stesen Bas Toa Payoh
Commencement Date:	19 May 2002
Number of Gates: End-on: Sawtooth:	17 13 4
Number of Services:	19
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:	NS19  Toa Payoh Toa Payoh MRT Station Toa Payoh MRT Station is an underground station of the Mass Rapid Transit's North South Line in Singapore. It serves the Toa Payoh area...

Toa Payoh Bus Interchange is located in Toa Payoh

Toa Payoh

Toa Payoh is a district located in the Central Region of Singapore. It commonly refers to the Housing and Development Board housing estate of Toa Payoh New Town, one of the earliest satellite public housing estates in Singapore....

, 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 the first air-conditioned bus interchange in the country, which was completed in 2002 and officially opened by then Transport Minister, Yeo Cheow Tong

Yeo Cheow Tong

Yeo Cheow Tong is a former politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party , he served in the Cabinet from 1990 to 2006, and was a Member of Parliament from 1984 to 2011....

, on 19 May 2002. The bus interchange has only services of 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....

 and is managed by the company itself. It has a direct connection from the bus interchange to the Toa Payoh MRT Station

Toa Payoh MRT Station

Toa Payoh MRT Station is an underground station of the Mass Rapid Transit's North South Line in Singapore. It serves the Toa Payoh area...

 on the North South Line

North South MRT Line

The North South Line was the 1st Mass Rapid Transit line in Singapore. The line is currently 44 km long with 25 stations, and is operated by SMRT Corporation...

.

Relocation of Bus Interchange in 1999

When the old Toa Payoh Bus Interchange was demolished in 1999 to make way for the building of HDB Hub, the new and current headquarters of the Housing and Development Board of Singapore, the interchange's 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....

, 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 currently in HDB Hub

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....

, the operator of Bus Interchange, ended bus operations to the Temporary Bus Interchange in 19 May 2002 and moved its services back to the bus interchange's original site, which has a direct connection to the MRT Station below it. It is notably the first bus interchange in Singapore to be fully air-conditioned and it is housed within the building of HDB Hub.

Anti-Terrorism Exercise

This bus interchange participated in the Exercise Northstar V on January 8, 2006.

Bomb Hoax

Similar to other bomb hoaxes at Hougang MRT Station

Hougang MRT Station

Hougang MRT Station ' is an underground station on the North East MRT Line, Singapore. It is located in the central part of Hougang New Town which is connected to the bus interchange and surrounding HDB flats and shopping centres....

 and Jurong East MRT Station

Jurong East MRT Station

Jurong East MRT Station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station that is part of the North South Line and the East West Line in Singapore, and serves as an interchange station between the two lines....

, 21-year-old Lin Zhenghuang was sentenced to 3 months in jail on Feb 7 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

HardwareZone

HardwareZone is an IT-oriented Internet portal based in Singapore. It is operated by Hardware Zone Private Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings...

.

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 July 22 2006, reporting that there had been a bomb attack at Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.

Routes

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	Gate	Destination	Gate-Type	Note
SBS Transit Trunk Services
8	B4	Tampines Bus Interchange Tampines Bus Interchange Tampines Bus Interchange is a bus station serving Tampines New Town in Singapore. It is an open-air building located in the town centre near the Tampines MRT Station, with the allocated block number of 512. The interchange is operated by SBS Transit...	End-on
26	B2	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
28	C4	Tampines Bus Interchange Tampines Bus Interchange Tampines Bus Interchange is a bus station serving Tampines New Town in Singapore. It is an open-air building located in the town centre near the Tampines MRT Station, with the allocated block number of 512. The interchange is operated by SBS Transit...	End-on
31	B1	Tampines Bus Interchange Tampines Bus Interchange Tampines Bus Interchange is a bus station serving Tampines New Town in Singapore. It is an open-air building located in the town centre near the Tampines MRT Station, with the allocated block number of 512. The interchange is operated by SBS Transit...	End-on
73	D1	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...	Sawtooth
88	C1	Pasir Ris Bus Interchange Pasir Ris Bus Interchange Pasir Ris Bus Interchange is a bus station located at Pasir Ris in the eastern part of Singapore. it is adjacent to Pasir Ris MRT Station...	End-on
90	B3	Airport Road (loop)	End-on
139	A3	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
142	D2	Potong Pasir Avenue 2 (loop)	End-on
143	A2	Jurong East Bus Interchange Jurong East Bus Interchange Jurong East Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Jurong East, Singapore...	End-on
145	A4	Buona Vista Bus Terminal Buona Vista Bus Terminal Buona Vista Bus Terminal is a bus station in Buona Vista, Singapore. This terminal does not allow boarding or alighting on site, but passengers can board at the nearest bus stop. Together with the nearby Ghim Moh Bus Terminal, they help to serve passengers in Buona Vista and Ghim Moh...	End-on
155	C5	Siglap Road (loop)	End-on
157	E1	Boon Lay Bus Interchange Boon Lay Bus Interchange The Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Pioneer, in the western part of Singapore. It is situated within the Jurong Point Shopping Mall and is integrated with the nearby Boon Lay MRT Station...	Sawtooth
159	C2	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...	End-on
163	E1	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...	Sawtooth
SBS Transit Feeder Services
231	E2	Toa Payoh Lorong 1 (loop)	Sawtooth
232	D2	Toa Payoh East (loop)	Sawtooth
235	D2	Toa Payoh Lorong 3 (loop)	Sawtooth
238	D1	Toa Payoh Lorong 8 (loop)	Sawtooth

Gates

Gate A1
-
Gate A2
143
Gate A3
139
Gate A4
145
Gate B1
31
Gate B2
26
Gate B3
90
Gate B4
8
Gate C1
88
Gate C2
159
Gate C3
-
Gate C4
28
Gate C5
155
Gate D1
	238	73
Gate D2
142	232	235
Gate E1
	157	163
Gate E2
231W	231G	TC*
WWWW	WWWW	WWWW	WWWW	WWWW	WWWW

Notes:

- *Turf City Service