Sembawang Bus Interchange is a

bus interchange 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 l ...

located in

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, Singapore. Opened on 20 November 2005, it provides hassle-free transfer to the nearby

Sembawang MRT station Sembawang MRT station is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North-South line (NSL). Located in Sembawang, Singapore along Sembawang Road, the station is close to the Sun Plaza shopping centre and Sembawang Bus Interchange. T ...

. This is one of the interchanges in a residential estate to not have any feeder services.

History

Before the opening of Sembawang Bus Interchange, various bus services terminated at scattered parts of Sembawang town. These include Admiralty Road West Bus Terminal for Service 980, Sembawang Road End Bus Terminal (near

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) for Service 167 and the pair of bus stops outside

for Service 981. When the bus interchange opened, these bus services, along with Service 859, which operated from

Yishun Bus Interchange Yishun Bus Interchange is located in northern Singapore, integrated with Northpoint City. The interchange is part of the Yishun Integrated Transport Hub (ITH), which opened on 8 September 2019. Before this interchange, the original bus interchan ...

, were amended to terminate at the newly opened bus interchange. A replacement bus service, Service 882, was created to replace the lost link between Sembawang and

along Sembawang Road End via Wellington Circle and Montreal Link. Services to the former Admiralty Road West Bus Terminal from Sembawang were covered by Service 856, which passes by both places along its route between

and

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, and bus Service 981, which passes by both place on its route to

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Industrial Estate. There are only two new bus services in Sembawang after that, which is service 117 to Punggol and 883 to Yishun.

Management

Since 3 October 2021, Sembawang Bus Interchange is managed by

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on a five year term.

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 Tra ...

, with the exception of Service 117 under Sengkang-Hougang Bus Package, the rest of the services are under Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package.

References

External links

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Interchange/Terminal (SMRT Buses)

Sembawang Town Map & Services Guide
2005 establishments in Singapore Bus stations in Singapore Sembawang {{Singapore-transport-stub