Boon Lay Bus Interchange

Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Pioneer, in the western part of Singapore. It is situated within the Jurong Point Shopping Mall and integrated with the nearby Boon Lay MRT Station. This interchange serves a variety of passengers, including those from Nanyang Technological University, Jurong Industrial Estate and Tuas Industrial Estate. This interchange has 31 bus services and it is the biggest in terms of bus services and the busiest bus interchange in Singapore.

History

Boon Lay Bus Interchange began operating on 1 July 1990 with services that used to terminate at the former Jurong Bus Interchange at Jurong Port Rd and Jurong East Bus Interchange being re-routed to terminate there. That time, the Jurong West extension and Tuas Industrial area was still largely under development. As both areas are undergoing development, more bus services were introduced and by the early 2000s, there were about 30 bus services terminating at the interchange.

That time, there used to be an empty land beside the former interchange. In 2006, the land where the former interchange sits at and the land beside it was sold together as a 'White site' to Prime Point Development Pte. Ltd. and soon the land where the former interchange sits at was acquired to construct the Jurong Point Extension.

From 18 June 2006 to 26 December 2009, the interchange had it operations temporarily next to Boon Lay MRT station, at an empty plot of land surrounded by Boon Lay Way and Jurong West Street 64 while the bus interchange was being rebuilt as part of the Jurong Point extension project and this project consisted of the extension of Jurong Point(JP2),the new Boon Lay Bus Interchange and a 16-storey condominium that is known as 'The Centris'.

On 27 December 2009, the interchange moved back to its original location and all operations (except for bus Service 179, 179A and 199 which continued to operate at the temporary interchange till 7 May 2010) resumed at the re-constructed interchange located along Jurong West Central 3. Built over 20,000 square metres, it is Singapore's fourth air conditioned bus interchange and the first along the East West Line. In total, it has 60 bus bays and 31 boarding/alighting wheelchair accessible berths with 22 of them being end-on and 9 of them being sawtooth (6 for boarding and 3 for alighting). Together with Boon Lay MRT station and Jurong Point, it is part of the Boon Lay Integrated Public Transport Hub.

The temporary interchange would serve as a bus park for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) buses in 2010 where many athletes were housed within NTU. It was finally demolished in 2011.

Finally, in tandem with the opening of Joo Koon Bus Interchange, several bus services plying the Pioneer and Tuas industrial estates were amended out of Boon Lay Interchange in stages between November and December 2015. Details about the bus reorganization can be found here.

Berths

Berth	Services
A1	Alighting Only
A2
A3
A4
A5
B1	179A	181/M	193
B2	192	241	242
B3	179	243G	252
B4	79	243W	199
B5	178	187	251	405
B6	172	180/A	240
B7	157
B8	194
B9	198/A
B10	-
B11	154/B
B12	249/A
B13	30
B14	Closed for upgrades.
B15	246
B16	174
B17	174e

Terminating trip 79T serves the interchange as an alighting only point.

Timothy Mok's areas:

• B2: 241 (2 slots empty)
• B3: 179 (2 slots empty)
• B4: 199 (2 slots empty)
• B5: 187, 251 (1 slot empty)
• B6: 180 (2 slots empty)
• B9: 198
• B11: 154
• B12: 249
• B15: 246

Altogether, there are 9 slots empty.

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