Bus Interchanges / Terminals that are not up to standard

TIB1186Z SG

Originally posted by leeJZ:
[b]St Michael's Terminal (Whampoa & Balestier Estates)
Old, dirty, small, no boarding facilities (all terminals/interchanges should have boarding/alighting facilities in my opinion)

Boon Lay Interchange (Jurong West Town)
Crowded and cramped, need to divert bus services or expand the interchange!

Bedok Interchange (Bedok Town)
Needs upgrading, better than the two above but still old and crowded.

Changi Airport PTB 1 & 2 (Changi Airport)
Should be moved to open air area so ADDs and bendies can be used...maybe on the one the empty clearings on airport ground... plus current basements too small for expansion

Clementi Interchange (Clementi Town)
Worst interchange in Singapore, barely enough space to walk, super cramped, tiny, and dirty...

Sengkang Interchange (Sengkang Town)
Too small for future expansion.

Eunos Interchange (Eunos, Aljunied & Geylang Estates)
Like the Kuala Lumpur Airport, much too big for its services, interchange has very few people despite the long boarding berths...[/b]

There ARE boarding facilities at St. Mikes'. There are even queue railings for individual berths, BTW. However, i agree that it is quite shabby, but again, few use the terminal

Clementi Interchange is purely hopeless at best. Even the control station has to be situated on an island in the bus parking area.

Sengkang is far too small for a developing central satellite town, plus the interior sucks big time, and there are not even proper queue railings for some services like 119 and 965 ( the latter is deliberate, IMO ). It is also too dim.

Ang Mo Kio temp. interchange is what i call a "land-locked" interchange, it is only accessible on one side, and the worse thing is that one has to walk round the interchange just to get to the polyclinic and NTUC which is just so frigging near.

The empty space is actually NOT empty space, FYI. They dun spend thousands of dollars laying high tensile concrete and design ing it without any purpose. Also, as Singapore aims to cater more towards budget travellers, a convenient site, unaffected by rain and sun to give a good impression, have to be chosen. Hence, the most obvious choice is still to go deep down.

Eunos Interchange is rather redundant, perhaps some of the services can be extended to bedok or lor 1 geylang if both of them are upgraded?

Also, it is a pain to get to lor 1 geylang terminal boarding bus stop in the rain.........from the MRT station. I hope it can be better integrated.

leeJZ SG

There are boarding facilites at St Michael's? My bad, but I didnt see anyone besides the drivers when I was there Wink

Maybe they can make a new Changi Airport terminal similiar to TPY interchange? Mr. Green

cck_190 SG

Oh Surprised ! I didn't realise that there is a coffee shop upstairs...Never been there before.

Seriously, CCK needs repainting. The walls are quite dirty.

SBS9818A SG

I think it's because St. Mikes is quite desolate.

tranquilice SG

Pasir Ris interchange opened sometime in 1989, a short while before MRT went there.

iamgoondu SG

why no boarding/alighting facilities for Buona Vista Terminal?

cck_190 SG

Can tell me when Bt Batok Int, Bt Panjang Terminal,CCK int(1988???), Old Woodlands Int opened, thanks...I forgot already. Smile

service_238 SG

Just some dates..

Toa Payoh Temp Interchange: 31st May 1998.
Toa Payoh HDB Hub Interchange: 19th May 2002.
Ang Mo Kio Temp Interchange: 24th March 2002.
Hougang Central Interchange: Sometime in 2001.

SBS9818A SG

Bishan was opened in 1987. HG Central was opened much earlier, but moved to the temporary one due to NEL construction, correct?

foxtrot1985 SG

It was at its original site before moving to the one beside Hougang Plaza due to NEL. Once construction was done, it moved back to its current site which is the original one.

ipodee SG

i lived next to the bus terminal for 19 years...didnt know you couldnt board or alight there when i did that almost everyday in the past

tranquilice SG

Hougang Central interchange opened in 1994.

leeJZ SG

I did not say you could not alight there, but since there was absolutely no one in the terminal, I assumed no boarding was allowed.

cck_190 SG

Can tell me when Bt Batok Int, Bt Panjang Terminal,CCK int(1988???), Old Woodlands Int opened, thanks.

SBS9818A SG

So it was used for 2-3 years, then closed, then rebuilt and reopened in 2001?

freakybuses SG

There was once when there was both Hougang Ctrl Ter and Hougang Ctrl Int in 1999 - 2000. One had boarding and alighting facilities but one doesn't. It happened during the rebuilding of Hougang Ctrl Int is it?

Yusry SG

I believe is was what happened.

Permanent location (the current HGC Interchange) was renamed to HGC Terminus. The temporary location was named HGC Interchange.

The temporary location had boarding and alighting facilities as well as a bus park.

The permanent location did not allow boarding and alighting and was used as a bus park.

Buses heading towards North-bound Upper Serangoon Road such as 74 and 147 (I think 165 too) used the bus stop along Upper Serangoon Road as their boarding berth.

Scania SG

Ok reason why the St Micheal Terminal doesn't have much passengers is that the Whampoa services goes one whole round while going in and also people who are living near the terminal could walk another 50 to 100m to the bus stop opposite NKF buliding to save money.

Present rule by CAAS for Changi Airport terminals (Limits can be seen on a bus entering Chnagi Airport Terminals|)
Changi Airport Terminal one PTB can contain Double decks but Terminal two cannot contain Double Decks. Terminal one doesn't allow 3 axle buses but Terminal two can have 3 axle buses provided that CAAS has a new ruling for Terminal two cos its quite staright with genlte bends. Hope that the new Terminal 3 has a new bus terminal that replaces the present two.

Clementi really needs a rebulit but here were plans fordemolishing the HDB flats and shops beside it and rebulit the present interchange inrto a Air-contidtioned interchange. Hope they also clear and level the lightly forested area beside the int.

Bedok also really needs a re bulit. Suggestion is that use the lightly-forested area beside it for the temporary interchange

Boon Lay int can be extended to the small area of land beside it(not the big one beside BNL MRT station)

foxtrot1985 SG

165 did not use that bus stop. The buses that used the current interchange as their bus park were 74 147 501 502.

service_238 SG

74 147 501 502 were from HGC Ter.
rest were from HCG Int.

Hougang Plaza bus stop is the first bus stop for these services.

if i'm not wrong the shelter that HGC has now did not exist during HGC ter days... just before current HGC reopened, the HGC Ter shelter was torn down.

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