Yishun Bus Interchange

Yishun Bus Interchange is a bus interchange primarily serving residents in Yishun in northern Singapore, integrated with the Northpoint City shopping mall. The interchange, also referred to as “Yishun Integrated Transport Hub (ITH)” opened on 8 September 2019.

Yishun Bus Interchange 义顺巴士转换站 Pertukaran Bas Yishun
Public Bus Interchange
Interior of Yishun Bus Interchange
General information
Location	920 Yishun Avenue 2 (769100) Singapore
Coordinates	1°25′39.3″N 103°50′9.2″E
Owned by	Land Transport Authority
Operated by	Tower Transit Singapore
Bus routes	1 (Ridwell Travel) 1 (Go-Ahead) 9 (Tower Transit) 14 (SBS Transit)
Bus stands	8 (boarding) 4 (alighting)
Bus operators	Main Operator: Tower Transit SBS Transit Go-Ahead Ridewell Travel
Connections	NS13  Yishun
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	23 August 1987; 37 years ago (1987-08-23) (Original) 14 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-14) (Temporary) 8 September 2019; 5 years ago (2019-09-08) (Integrated Transport Hub)
Closed	13 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-13) (Original) 7 September 2019; 5 years ago (2019-09-07) (Temporary)
Key dates
23 August 1987 (1987-08-23)	Commenced operations
14 March 2015 (2015-03-14)	Relocated to temporary site
8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)	Relocated back to original site
Location

History

Previous sites

In the early days of Yishun New Town, bus terminals were operated from both Yishun Avenue 5 Bus Terminal, Yishun Central Bus Terminal as well as the Mandai Road Bus Terminal. Feeder buses usually comes from Yishun Central Bus Terminal whereas trunk buses usually comes from Yishun Avenue 5 Bus Terminal. Before the opening, Mandai Road Bus Terminal was closed and operations shifted to Yishun Avenue 5 Bus Terminal. The original Yishun Bus Interchange was built at a cost of S$2 million, and it opened on 23 August 1987. The numbering was "80x" and "81x" for all feeder services and "85x" for all trunk services. New services were only tendered to Trans-Island Bus Services (TIBS) and was the first and only bus interchange purpose-built for the Trans-Island Bus Service that prevents double decker buses from entering the interchange.^[1]

All bus routes were packaged under Yishun Bus Package since 1995. Service 171 was mandated to be under TIBS, with the exception of bus service 39 and 85 which were introduced by SBS Transit; after 2001.

Temporary Bus Interchange

The shops at Block 923 were closed and subsequently demolished in 2012 due to the development plans. Residents who were residing at Block 923 were transferred to a new residential area.

On 17 June 2013, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) released the land parcel where the former interchange and then-demolished HDB flat, Block 923, was located. The land parcel was launched for sale on 28 June 2013.^[2]

As such, in 2014, Yishun Bus Package were redrawn into Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package and Seletar Bus Package respectively. All feeder services, as well as selected trunk buses were moved to Seletar Bus Package and trunk services joined all services in Sembawang and a few services in Woodlands to be under Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package.

On 27 February 2015, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced the construction and co-location of a new air-conditioned bus interchange with the new Northpoint City integrated development, named the Yishun Integrated Transport Hub (YITH). The new interchange is slated to open in 2019.^[3] The Integrated Bus Interchange will be linked to the existing Yishun MRT station by a new underpass under Yishun Avenue 2.

As such, to make way for a new Integrated Transport Hub (ITH), the old bus interchange transferred operations to a temporary site at the junction of Yishun Central and Yishun Central 1 behind Northpoint Shopping Centre on 14 March 2015. The last bus service to leave the old interchange, Service 812, departed at 12:45am, 14 March 2015. This temporary interchange was closed on 7 September 2019 and the new Yishun ITH opened on 8 September 2019.^[4][5]

Management

Since 5 September 2021,^[6] Yishun Bus Interchange is managed by Tower Transit on a five-year term.^[7]

Bus contracting model

See also: Bus contracting model of Singapore

Under the bus contracting model, all the bus routes operating from Yishun Bus Interchange were split into 5 route packages, operated by different public bus operators.

List of routes

Operator	Package	Routes
Go-Ahead Singapore	Loyang	85[8][9]
SBS Transit	Seletar	800, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 811, 812, 851, 851e, 852, 860[10][11]
	Serangoon-Eunos	103[12]
	Tampines	39
Tower Transit Singapore	Sembawang-Yishun	171, 801, 853/853M, 854, 854e, 855, 856, 857, 859[13][14]

References

1. "Tibs bus interchange to open at Yishun". The Straits Times. 22 August 1987. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2017 – via NewspaperSG.
2. "HDB InfoWEB: Government to release three residential sites and two commercial & residential sites estimated to yield 3,600 housing units in June 2013". 23 September 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
3. "LTA | News Room | News Releases | Yishun Integrated Transport Hub to Open by 2019". 7 March 2020. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
4. "Yishun Integrated Transport Hub to Open on 8 September 2019". Land Transport Authority. 7 September 2019.
5. "Yishun integrated transport hub to open on Sept 8". The Straits Times. 7 August 2019. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
6. "Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package". Tower Transit Singapore. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
7. "Tower Transit to run Sembawang and Yishun bus interchanges, taking over from SMRT". CNA. Archived from the original on 2 October 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
8. "LTA Awards Second Bus Package to Go-Ahead Group Plc". Land Transport Authority (Singapore). 23 November 2015. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
9. "Go-Ahead to start Loyang bus services on Sept 4". Today. 5 August 2016. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
10. "LTA Awards Third Bus Package to SBS Transit Ltd". Land Transport Authority (Singapore). 19 April 2017. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
11. Adrian Lim (7 June 2016). "LTA calls tender for operator to run 26 bus routes under third Government bus contract". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
12. "Bus Industry to Complete Transition to Bus Contracting Model on 1 September 2016". Land Transport Authority (Singapore). 11 August 2016. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

    • "Details of the 11 Negotiated Packages" (PDF). Land Transport Authority (Singapore). Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
13. "LTA Awards Bulim and Sembawang-Yishun Bus Packages to Tower Transit". Land Transport Authority (Singapore). 30 September 2020. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
14. Clement Yong (2 October 2020). "Tower Transit edges out SMRT to win $1.03b Bulim and Sembawang-Yishun bus packages". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.

External links

• Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)
• Interchange/Terminal (SMRT Buses)