Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange is located in

Ang Mo Kio Ang Mo Kio is a planning area and residential town situated in the North-East of Singapore. Located approximately north of the Downtown Core district, Ang Mo Kio is the 3rd most populated planning area in the North-East Region and ranks 8th ...

Town Centre,

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. The interchange is within

AMK Hub AMK Hub (abbreviation for Ang Mo Kio Hub) is a suburban shopping mall located in Ang Mo Kio, within the North-East Region of Singapore. It is connected to Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange which is linked to Ang Mo Kio MRT station via an underpass ...

which is in turn linked to

Ang Mo Kio MRT station Ang Mo Kio MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South Line in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. Located at the junction of Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8, beside Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East, the stati ...

via a pedestrian underpass below Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8. The interchange was opened by Prime Minister

Lee Hsien Loong Lee Hsien Loong (; born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party since 2004. He has been the Member of Par ...

. The interchange is the third to be fully

air-conditioned Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C or AC, is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior environment (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling ...

in Singapore after the

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 the then Minister for Transport, Yeo Cheow Tong, on 19 May that y ...

and the

Sengkang Bus Interchange Sengkang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located on the ground level of Compass Heights condominium in the town centre of Sengkang New Town, Singapore. Located next to Sengkang MRT/LRT station, it is the second bus interchange in Singapore ...

, and similarly features automated sliding doors at each of its six berths that will open only when the bus reaches the berths.

History

Original interchange

Plans for the bus interchange were first announced in March 1979, as part of the

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's (SBS) efforts to rationalise the Singapore bus system. Constructed by the

Housing and Development Board The Housing & Development Board (HDB) (; ms, Lembaga Perumahan dan Pembangunan; ta, வீடமைப்பு வளர்ச்சிக் கழகம்) or often referred to as the Housing Board, is a statutory board under the M ...

(HDB), the bus park of the interchange was completed in 1979. In January 1980, bus services that previously terminated at a bus terminus along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 were amended to the interchange, but passengers were not allowed to board or alight at the interchange. Due to concerns over the interchange's small size making it unsafe for commuters, in August 1980, SBS announced that it would be replacing the interchange with a larger facility. To facilitate the interchange's construction, the HDB granted permission to SBS to utilise half of a plot of land beside the interchange and another plot then occupied by a carpark. Work on the replacement bus interchange commenced in January 1981, and operations at the new interchange commenced on 10 April 1983. Covering an area of more than and with 36 berths, the bus interchange included features such as swing gates and turnstiles to handle commuter traffic, along with safety railings and walls to ensure commuters' safety.

Current interchange

In 2001, the government announced plans to redevelop the bus interchange to form part of an integrated development, and to make way for the development, the interchange was moved to a temporary location along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 in March 2002. Construction of the integrated development was delayed by a dispute between the developer and the government over the price of the land parcel, only beginning in March 2005. Subsequently, the new bus interchange within the integrated development started operations in April 2007.

Bus Contracting Model

Under the new

bus contracting model The Bus Contracting Model (BCM), formerly known as the Government Contracting Model, is a contracting model introduced by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in 2014 for public buses in Singapore, implemented in 2016. The BCM is based on the Tran ...

, the entire bus interchange except 22, 25, 73, 86, 136, 166 and 169 will come under Seletar Bus Package. Service 136 is under Loyang, Service 22 is under TBC, Service 25 is under Bedok, Service 169 is under Sembawang-Yishun, Service 86 is under Sengkang-Hougang, Service 166 is under Clementi while Service 73 is under Bishan-Toa Payoh packages respectively.

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