Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange

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Coordinates: 1°22′10.7″N 103°50′54.6″E / 1.369639°N 103.8485°E / 1.369639; 103.8485

The new, air-conditioned bus interchange of Ang Mo Kio is located within AMK Hub.

Ang Mo Kio Temporary Bus Interchange, beside Block 701. Ended operations in 28th April 2007.

Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange is located in Ang Mo Kio Town Centre, Singapore. The interchange is presently within AMK Hub, a newly-built shopping centre which is in turn linked to the Ang Mo Kio MRT Station via a pedestrian underpass below Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8.

The interchange is the third to be fully air-conditioned in Singapore after the Toa Payoh Bus Interchange and the Sengkang Bus Interchange, and similarly features automated sliding doors at each of its six berths that will open only when the bus reaches the berths.

[edit] History

The original bus interchange was opened in April 1983 as Ang Mo Kio New Town slowly expanded since the late 1970s. Buses originally berthed at elongated bus stops outside Blk 322 along Ang Mo Kio Ave 3, which is right opposite the present-day Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange. Feeder service 269 was inaugrated together with the opening of this interchange.

The bus interchange was relocated to a temporary structure at the other end of Ang Mo Kio Town Centre nearby to the Ang Mo Kio Community Library on 24 March 2002 when the old 18-year-old interchange building was demolished to make way for the development of AMK Hub. The temporary bus interchange was originally intended to be operational for two years, but continued to operate at its site for an additional two years due to a delay in the construction of the AMK Hub when its earlier contractor went bust right after the demolition of the old bus interchange.

All the routes for the 15 bus services (14 SBS Transit Bus Services and 1 SMRT Bus Service) that terminates in Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange were relocated to the new bus interchange built within AMK Hub on 28 April 2007, with all of these buses skipping a pair of bus stops outside the Ang Mo Kio MRT Station and Jubilee Cineplex as a result.

[edit] Routes

Service	Berth	Destination	Notes
SBS Transit Trunk Services
22	Berth 5	Tampines Bus Interchange
24	Berth 5	Changi Airport PTB 1, 2 and 3 Bus Terminal
25	Berth 2	Bedok Bus Interchange
73	Berth 2	Toa Payoh Bus Interchange (Loop)
86	Berth 1	Sengkang Bus Interchange
130	Berth 1	Shenton Way Bus Terminal
133	Berth 3	Marina Centre (Loop)
135	Berth 3	Siglap Road (Loop)
136	Berth 3	Punggol Bus Interchange
138	Berth 1	Singapore Zoological Gardens (Loop)
166	Berth 4	Clementi Bus Interchange
SBS Transit Feeder Services
261	Berth 6	Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park 1 (Loop)
262	Berth 4	Ang Mo Kio Street 11/Avenue 2 (Loop)
269	Berth 6	Ang Mo Kio Street 61 (Loop)
SBS Transit Short-working Trips
86A	Berth 1	Jalan Kayu (Bef. Seletar Camp)
130A	Berth 1	Sin Ming Road (Block 25)	Operates only on Ching Ming Period
133A	Berth 3	Raffles Avenue (Esplanade)
135A	Berth 3	Marine Parade Road (Victoria School)
138A	Berth 1	Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 (Opp Blk 604)	Departing at 1829hrs, 1906hrs, 1938hrs, 1955hrs
SMRT Buses Trunk Services
169	Berth 4	Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange

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