Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal ( Malay: ''Pertukaran Bus Kampong Bahru''; Chinese: 甘榜峇鲁路巴士终站) is a

bus terminal A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. While the term bus depot can also be used to refer to a bus station, it generally refers to a bus garage. A bus station is ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

. It is situated along Spooner Road off Kampong Bahru Road in

Bukit Merah Bukit Merah, also known as Redhill, is a planning area and new town situated in the southernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore. the planning area borders Tanglin to the north, Queenstown to the west and the Downtown Core, Outram an ...

, and is located near Outram Community Hospital, as well as the

Singapore General Hospital Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is an academic health science centre and tertiary referral hospital in Singapore. It is located next to the Bukit Merah and Chinatown districts of the Central Region, close to the Outram Community Hospital (OC ...

History

According to ''

The Straits Times ''The Straits Times'' is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore and currently owned by SPH Media Trust (previously Singapore Press Holdings). ''The Sunday Times'' is its Sunday edition. The newspaper was establish ...

'', historically there was a bus terminal located within

Radin Mas Radin Mas is a neighbourhood within Telok Blangah Estate, located in Bukit Merah, Singapore. Etymology The area was named after '' Radin Mas Ayu'' ( Jawi: رادين مس ايو; jv, ꦫꦢꦶꦤ꧀ꦩꦱ꧀ꦲꦪꦸ ), a princess of the Javanes ...

named Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal. The former bus terminal bears no relation to the contemporary bus terminal of the same name. The current iteration of Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal was first announced on 23 May 2016, and was constructed and built on land formerly owned by

Malayan Railways Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) (Jawi: كريتاڤي تانه ملايو برحد) or Malayan Railways Limited is the main rail operator in Peninsular Malaysia. The railway system dates back to the British colonial era, when it was firs ...

. The construction of the new bus terminal was intended to replace the former New Bridge Road Bus Terminal, as the site would later be redeveloped into a new elective surgery centre by the

. The bus terminal was originally slated for opening by the end of 2017, but it was then delayed to March 2018.

Opening

The terminal officially began operations on 10 March 2018, with existing services from New Bridge Road Bus Terminal amended to serve the bus terminal on that day. The terminal is located about 500 metres from the former site of New Bridge Road Bus Terminal.

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Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)
{{Singapore bus stations, state=expanded Bus stations in Singapore