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Boon Lay Bus Interchange

Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an Integrated Transport Hub (ITH) located at Jurong West Central, serving residential areas around Jurong West and industrial area around Pioneer.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4943569
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Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Jurong West Central. It serves the residential estates of Jurong West as well as the industrial areas around Pioneer. Opened in 2009, it is Singapore’s fourth air-conditioned bus interchange and is integrated with Jurong Point shopping centre and The Centris condominium. It is also located a short walk from Boon Lay MRT station.

Nearby public facilities include the Jurong West Community Building and Jurong Central Park. The interchange serves a wide range of passengers, including residents, workers travelling to the Jurong and Tuas industrial estates, and students from Nanyang Technological University. It has long been one of Singapore’s largest and busiest bus interchanges. At its peak, it handled 31 bus services, although several routes were transferred to the newer Joo Koon Bus Interchange in 2015.

History

Boon Lay Bus Interchange began operations on 1 July 1990. It replaced the former Jurong Bus Interchange on Jurong Port Road, with bus services that had previously terminated there being rerouted to Boon Lay.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Boon Lay Bus Interchange” is boon Lay Bus Interchange is an Integrated Transport Hub (ITH) located at Jurong West Central, serving residential areas around Jurong West and industrial area around Pioneer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Boon, Interchange and Integrated, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2015, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-07-01. For this dossier, Boon, Interchange and Integrated is the immediate research focus.
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