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{{Short description|Bus station in Singapore}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox station
| name               = Toa Payoh Bus Interchange<br>大巴窑巴士转换站<br>Pertukaran Bas Toa Payoh
| type               = Public Bus Interchange
| image              = Toa Payoh Bus interchange 20201209 143855.jpg
| caption            = Interior of the bus interchange.
| address            = 530 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310530
| coordinates        = {{Coord|1|36|23|N|104|25|24|E}}
| owned              = [[Land Transport Authority]]
| operator           = [[SBS Transit|SBS Transit Ltd]] ([[ComfortDelGro|ComfortDelGro Corporation]])
| bus_operators      = [[SBS Transit|SBS Transit Ltd]]<br>[[Tower Transit Singapore|Tower Transit Singapore Pte Ltd]]
| bus_routes         = 20 (SBS Transit)<br>1 (Tower Transit Singapore)
| bus_stands         = 4 Sawtooth<br>14 End-on
| connections        = {{SMRT code|NS|19}} [[Toa Payoh MRT station|Toa Payoh]]
| structure          = At-grade
| accessible         = Accessible alighting/boarding points<br>Accessible public toilets<br>Graduated kerb edges<br>Tactile guidance system<!--Do not change otherwise stated-->
| opened             = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1983|12|26}} (Old)<br>{{Start date and age|df=yes|1998|05|31}} (Temporary)<br>{{Start date and age|df=yes|2002|05|19}} (Integrated Transport Hub)
| closed             = {{End date and age|df=yes|1998|05|30}} (Old)<br>{{End date and age|df=yes|2002|05|18}} (Temporary)
| years              = 26 December 1983
| events             = Commenced operations
| years1             = 31 May 1998
| events1            = Operations transferred to Temporary bus interchange
| years2             = 19 May 2002
| events2            = Operations transferred to new and air-conditioned bus interchange as Integrated Transport Hub
| mapframe           = 
}}

'''Toa Payoh Bus Interchange''' is an air-conditioned [[bus station|bus interchange]] located at [[Toa Payoh]] Town Centre, serving the town of Toa Payoh and  Braddell. At the time of opening on 19 May 2002 by then [[Ministry of Transport (Singapore)|Minister for Transport]], [[Yeo Cheow Tong]], it is the first air-conditioned bus interchange in [[Singapore]], integrated within the Toa Payoh HDB Hub and built on top of [[Toa Payoh MRT station]].

==History==
===Original interchange===
The original interchange was built at a cost of [[Singapore dollar|S$]]2.17 million and opened on 26 December 1983.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Quiet start at Toa Payoh interchange|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19831227-1.2.17.12|work=The Straits Times |date=27 December 1983 |access-date=27 September 2017|via=NewspaperSG }}</ref> It replaced a bus terminal that had been in operation since 1971.{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}
===Relocation of bus interchange in 1998===
When the old Toa Payoh Bus Interchange was demolished on 31 May 1998 to make way for the building of [[HDB Hub]], the new and current headquarters of the [[Housing and Development Board]] (HDB) of Singapore, the interchange operator, [[SBS Transit|SBS Transit Ltd]], moved its bus operations to a temporary location opposite its original site located at [[Toa Payoh Town Park]], which was upgraded after the temporary interchange was demolished.

===Bus interchange located in HDB Hub===
Bus services from the temporary bus interchange moved on 19 May 2002, back to the bus interchange original site, which has a direct underground connection to [[Toa Payoh MRT station]]. It is notably the first bus interchange in Singapore to be fully [[air conditioning|air conditioned]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Speech By Mr Yeo Cheow Tong At The Opening Of The First Airconditioned Bus Interchange At Toa Payoh Sunday on 19 May 2002|url=http://www.mot.gov.sg/news-centre/news/Detail/Speech%20By%20Mr%20Yeo%20Cheow%20Tong%20At%20The%20Opening%20Of%20The%20First%20Airconditioned%20Bus%20Interchange%20At%20Toa%20Payoh%20Sunday%20on%2019%20May%202002/|access-date=7 October 2021|website=www.mot.gov.sg|language=en}}</ref> and it is housed within the building of [[HDB Hub]].

===Counter-terrorism exercise===
{{Main|Counter-terrorism in Singapore#Exercise Northstar V}}
The Toa Payoh Bus Interchange participated in the [[Exercise Northstar V]] counter-terrorism exercise on 8 January 2006, which simulated a terrorist bomb attack on various transport infrastructure, including MRT stations and bus interchanges.<ref>{{cite news |date=3 January 2006 |title=Twenty-two agencies in Exercise Northstar V ready for action |publisher=Channel NewsAsia |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/186433/1/.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001043739/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/186433/1/.html |archive-date=1 October 2007}}</ref>

===Bomb hoax===
Similar to other bomb hoaxes at [[Hougang MRT station|Hougang]] and [[Jurong East MRT station|Jurong East]], 21-year-old Lin Zhenghuang was sentenced to 3 months in jail on 7 February 2007 and fined S$4000 for eight charges under the Computer Misuse Act. The charges were for 'mooching' or illegally tapping into his neighbour's unsecured wireless internet network and posting a bomb hoax on an online forum of popular technology site [[HardwareZone]]. Lin previously pleaded guilty to one charge under the Telecommunications Act for transmitting a false message and nine charges under the Computer Misuse Act. The accused posted a message on 22 July 2005, reporting that there had been a bomb attack at Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.<ref> {{cite news | title = Bomb hoax youth gets 3 months' jail, $4,000 fine | publisher = Asia Media | date = 8 February 2007 | url = http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=63294 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081212201736/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=63294 | archive-date = 12 December 2008 }} </ref>

==Bus Contracting Model==
{{see also|Bus contracting model of Singapore}}

Under the [[Bus contracting model of Singapore|Bus Contracting Model]], all bus services operating from Toa Payoh Bus Interchange were divided into 6 Bus Packages, operated by two different bus operators.

===List of Bus Services===
{{See also|List of bus routes in Singapore}}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align: left"
|+
!Operator
!Package
!Routes
|-
|rowspan=5 style="background-color:#800080; color: white" |'''SBS Transit'''
|Bishan-Toa Payoh
|8, 26, 73, 88, 139/139A, 142/142A, 155, 157, 231, 232, 235, 238
|-
|Bukit Merah
|145
|-
|Sengkang-Hougang
|159, 163
|-
|Serangoon-Eunos
|90, 141
|-
|Tampines
|28, 31
|-
| style="background-color:#008000; color: white" |'''Tower Transit Singapore'''
|Bulim
|143
|}

Bus Service 73 does not terminate at Toa Payoh Interchange. Instead, Bus Service 73 does not layover and loops in the interchange back to [[Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/transport/trpt_bus_inter.aspx Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)]
*{{Commons and category-inline|Toa Payoh Bus Interchange|Toa Payoh Bus Interchange}}
{{Singapore bus stations|state=expanded}}

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[[Category:1983 establishments in Singapore]]
[[Category:Toa Payoh]]
[[Category:Bus stations in Singapore]]