Yishun Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located at Yishun Town Centre, serving residential areas around Yishun and Khatib. It is the tenth air-conditioned bus interchange in Singapore, integrated within the Northpoint City shopping centre (South Wing) and North Park Residences condominium, while seamlessly connected to Yishun MRT station via an underpass at Basement 2. Nearby public amenities include Golden Village Yishun, Nee Soon Sports Centre, Yishun Polyclinic, Yishun Pond Park, and Nee Soon East Community Centre. Yishun Integrated Transport Hub opened on Sunday, 8 September 2019, with SMRT Buses being the anchor operator. As the tendered package awarded operator for the Sembawang–Yishun Bus Package, Tower Transit is the current anchor operator from 5 September 2021. It also replaces the Yishun's temporary bus interchange which replaced the previous interchange since 14 March 2015.
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 came 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.
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, which was located there. The land parcel was launched for sale on 28 June 2013.
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. The integrated bus interchange will be linked to the existing Yishun MRT station by a new underpass underneath 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.
Bus contracting model
Under the bus contracting model, all bus services operating from Yishun Bus Interchange were divided into five bus packages, operated by three different bus operators.
From 5 September 2021, Yishun Bus Interchange is operated by Tower Transit on a five-year term.
List of bus services
+OperatorPackageServiceBerthDestinationRemarksGo-Ahead SingaporeLoyang85B2Punggol85ASengkang East Road (Sengkang Community Hub)Short trip serviceTampines39Tampines Concourserowspan="7" SBS TransitSeletar800B7↺ Sembawang Road803B1↺ Yishun Avenue 6804B8↺ Yishun Avenue 11805B2↺ Yishun Avenue 1806B6↺ Yishun Avenue 6807B7↺ Yishun Avenue 5807AYishun Ring Road (Khatib Station Exit D)Short trip service807BYishun Ring Road (Jiemin Pr Sch)811/811TB6↺ Yishun Avenue 5North Loop811AYishun Avenue 5 (Opp Yishun Station Exit B)Short trip service812/812TB1↺ Yishun Avenue 4East LoopB3↺ Yishun Avenue 3West Loop851B5Bukit Merah851eNew Bridge Road (Aft Duxton Plain Pk)Express service852B1Bukit Batokrowspan="6" 860B7Yio Chu KangSerangoon–Eunos 103 (Until June 2027)B6SerangoonSMRT BusesSerangoon–Eunos103 (From June 2027)B6Tower Transit SingaporeSembawang–Yishun171B3↺ Upper Bukit Timah Road801B8↺ Yishun Avenue 1853B4Lorong 1 GeylangWeekdays & Saturdays853MUpper East CoastSundays / Public holidays854B5Bedok854eExpress service / Weekdays morning peak855B4HarbourFrontrowspan="3" 856Woodlands857B5↺ Temasek Avenue857AYio Chu Kang Road (Opp Sunrise Gdns)Short trip service857BTemasek Avenue (Aft Promenade Station Exit C)859B3Sembawang
References
External links Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit) Interchange/Terminal (SMRT Buses)