Jurong East Bus Interchange

Jurong East Temporary Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Jurong East, Singapore. An open-air single-level bus terminal, it is directly connected to the adjacent Jurong East MRT station.

Jurong East Temporary Bus Interchange 裕廊东临时巴士转换站 Pertukaran Bas Jurong East
Public bus
Location	60 Jurong Gateway Road, Singapore 608548 Singapore
Owned by	Land Transport Authority
Operated by	Tower Transit
Bus routes	15 (Tower Transit) 6 (SBS Transit) 2 (Causeway Link)
Bus stands	7 (Boarding) 4 (Alighting)
Bus operators	Tower Transit (All except 51, 52, 105, 160, 197, 506) SBS Transit (Services 51, 52, 105, 160, 197, 506) Causeway Link (Services CW3 and CW4)
Connections	NS1  EW24  JE5  Jurong East
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Disabled access	Accessible alighting/boarding points Accessible public toilets Graduated kerb edges Tactile guidance system
History
Opened	30 June 1985 (1985-06-30) (original) 17 December 2011 (2011-12-17) (temporary)
Closed	16 December 2011 (2011-12-16) (original)
Key dates
30 June 1985	Commenced operations
17 December 2011	Relocated to temporary interchange

History

Eastern end of the original Jurong East Bus Interchange

Buses parking at the end-on berths of the original Jurong East Bus Interchange

The original facility used for the bus interchange was built on 30 June 1985, west of the present MRT station and opposite the Jurong CPF building at Jurong Gateway Road. Most of the bus services in the bus interchange originated from the Teban Gardens Terminal and some from the former Jurong Bus Interchange, which were re-routed to this interchange when it opened. For years, despite being in the zone marked as Jurong Regional Centre, the bus interchange had a rather low level of passenger flow as compared to the larger Boon Lay Bus Interchange serving Jurong West New Town, the Jurong Industrial Estate, as well as institutions in the west including the Nanyang Technological University. The interchange serves mainly commuters travelling to the various housing estates, schools, religious places, tourist attractions and industrial places in Jurong East and those travelling to Malaysia via Tuas Checkpoint.

Following the redevelopments in Jurong, the original facility had been slated to be rebuilt into an air-conditioned facility as part of a commercial development on the site, which the commercial development and surrounding commercial places, together with the MRT station, will be collectively known as the Jurong East Integrated Transport Hub, similar to the rest of earlier hubs built. The rebuilding plan came along with the other plots of land surrounding the original facility being sold off to developers for commercial developments on 27 October 2010 when the Land Transport Authority released a tender for a "Proposed Jurong East Temporary Bus Interchange" indicating the redevelopment of the bus interchange. The land (MK05-08622X) occupied by the original facility was to be acquired by Singapore Land Authority for development into a commercial centre 10 years later and the original interchange to relocate to a temporary facility. The construction of the temporary facility spanned from middle of 2011 to the end of 2011.

The temporary facility is located at the south of the MRT station along Jurong Gateway Road, roughly 0.2 km South-East from the original facility, opposite JCube at the western end of it and the JTC Corporation headquarters at the eastern end. It has the same colour scheme of red as the original facility and it somewhat resembles the temporary facility used by Boon Lay Temporary Bus Interchange. The temporary bus interchange will soon be relocated to a second temporary bus interchange at the western end near JCube and Jurong Town Hall Road in 2020. The existing temporary bus interchange will be demolished to make way for an integrated transport hub with Jurong Region line's Jurong East station.

The new bus interchange brought about changes in routes. The bus stop outside Block 131 is now being reused after the Jurong East Modification Project. All former end-on bus services (except for Service 98 and 98M) now call at the bus stop outside Jurong Seventh-Day Adventist Church.[1]

Bus Contracting Model

Under the new bus contracting model, all Singaporean run bus routes were split into 7 route packages - 52 under Bishan-Toa Payoh, 506 under Bedok, 51 under Sengkang-Hougang, 105 under Serangoon-Eunos, 160 under Bukit Merah, 197 under Clementi and the rest are under Bulim Bus Packages.

In May 2015, the Land Transport Authority announced Tower Transit the successful tenderer of the Bulim Bus Package. This package comprises 15 services originating from Jurong East Bus Interchange, including the newly-introduced services 41, 143M and the amended service 49. Tower Transit took over operations of these services out of Bulim Bus Depot, and also operates in Clementi Bus Interchange, along with operating and maintaining Bukit Batok Bus Interchange.[2][3]

There is no change to the operator of cross-border services CW3 and CW4, which continue to be operated by Causeway Link of Malaysia.

References

1. "Bus Services Operating From The New Jurong East Temporary Bus Interchange". SBS Transit. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
2. "Transition to a Government Contracting Model For the Public Bus Industry". Land Transport Authority. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
3. "LTA awards first tendered bus package to Tower Transit Group Limited". Land Transport Authority. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2016.

External links

• Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)
• Singapore Bus Service Routes (Causeway Link)