Venture Avenue Bus Interchange

The upcoming bus interchange at Venture Drive is slated to be constructed and put into operation by Year 2023, in tandem with a host of new infrastructure developments being planned as part of the wider Jurong Lake District.

This bus interchange will complement the new Jurong East Temporary Bus Interchange (scheduled to open in 2019), and eventually the Jurong East Integrated Transport Hub (scheduled to open around 2027) at Jurong Gateway Road.

On 12 July 2019, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) called a tender for Proposed Design and Construction of Bus Interchange & Associated Works at Venture Drive (Reference PT375), which is scheduled for completion by 2023.

The new bus interchange would serve to boost the public transport network in Jurong East as part of the wider Jurong Lake District, envisioned as the second Central Business District in Singapore. Increased human traffic in the area, brought about by the new High-Speed Rail station and future commercial and residential developments, necessitated a new bus interchange to spread out passengers numbers and avoid heavy congestion at a single bus interchange.

Bus interchanges in Jurong East have undergone several changes since the first interchange opened in 1985 and closed in 2011, moving to a temporary interchange nearby. The site of the old interchange was expected to be redeveloped into a new Integrated Transport Hub (ITH), but a change of plans ensued that would relocate the ITH to the site of the temporary interchange, integrated with an MOT-LTA complex. A new temporary interchange, expected to open in late 2019, would take over operations from the old temporary interchange which opened in 2011.

While the future bus interchange at Venture Drive is expected to be finished by 2023, the ITH at Jurong East will take 3 more years.