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13-529: Eunos Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Geylang East , Singapore . It is located and built beside Eunos MRT station and is surrounded by Eunos Road 2, Eunos Crescent and Sims Avenue . The interchange is designed with traditional Malay roof structure and shape, but using modern materials such as steel beams, similar to that of the Eunos MRT station. It gives a sense of identity to

26-487: A Minangkabau -style roof, the interchange had 30 parking bays, and six berths. Under the new bus contracting model , all the bus routes buses were split into 4 route packages, operated by different public bus operators. This Singapore bus-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bus station A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. While

39-526: A "waiting parking lot", which has a capacity of 70 vehicles. The terminal has a daily circulation of 90,000 people and 3,000 buses. Around 295 workers are employed by the terminal for administrative, operational, janitorial, and security purposes. In 2002, the terminal began offering "check-in" service like at an airport for long-distance voyages. Passengers may check their luggage at a baggage counter. Electronic display panels show arrivals and departures at each platform. The terminal can also be accessed via

52-834: A dynamic passenger information system. The latter requires fewer platforms, but does not provide consistent locations for passengers. Kilambakkam bus terminus in Chennai is spread over an area of 358,200 square metres (88.52 acres), making it the largest bus station in the world. The Woodlands Bus Interchange in Singapore is one of the busiest bus interchanges in the world, handling up to 400,000 passengers daily across 42 bus services. Other Singaporean bus interchanges such as Bedok Bus Interchange , Tampines Bus Interchange and Yishun Bus Interchange handle similar number of passengers daily. The largest underground bus station in Europe

65-600: Is Kamppi Centre in Helsinki, Finland completed in 2006. The terminal cost 100 million Euro to complete and took 3 years to design and build. Today, the bus terminal, which covers 25,000 square meters, is the busiest bus terminal in Finland. Every day, the terminal has around 700 bus departures, transporting approximately 170,000 passengers. Preston Bus Station in Preston, England, built in 1969 and later heritage-listed ,

78-863: Is the largest bus terminal in Latin America , and the second largest in the world, after the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City . The terminal is located in the Santana district in the city of São Paulo , Brazil . The official name in Portuguese is Terminal Rodoviário Governador Carvalho Pinto , named after Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto, a former Governor of the State of São Paulo . Comprising an area of 120,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft),

91-735: The Lincoln Tunnel and one block west of Times Square . The terminal is the largest in the Western Hemisphere and the busiest in the world by volume of traffic, serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year. It has 223 gates. It operates intercity bus routes all over the United States and some routes with international destinations, mostly in Canada, and mostly operated by Greyhound Lines. The largest bus terminal in

104-579: The Portuguesa-Tietê station on Line 1 of the São Paulo Metro . The terminal features a 37,750 square metres (406,300 sq ft) garden including more than 40 species of trees. The terminal offers 53 shops, 11 commercial vendor kiosks, 21 food-service vendors, a travel agency, free WiFi connection, free charging stations for laptops and cell phones, a pharmacy, a post office, a vaccination clinic, and 9 ATMs. Locations served by

117-690: The area as the bus interchange lies close to Geylang and also to honour Eunos Abdullah who secured 700-hectares of land for the Malay settlements in the early 1900s. This bus interchange is one of the few bus interchanges not located in the respective town centre. The interchange was first announced in October 1984, as one of eight planned bus interchanges that were connected to the Mass Rapid Transit network. The interchange opened on 10 December 1989, along with Pasir Ris Bus Interchange . Sporting

130-626: The southern hemisphere is the Tietê Bus Terminal located in São Paulo, Brazil. It is also the 2nd busiest in the world, serving about 90,000 people per weekday in 300 bus lines on its 89 platforms (72 for boarding and 17 for deboarding), with services to over 1,000 cities over the country and South America . The terminal is also linked to Portuguesa-Tietê , an adjacent metro station. Tiet%C3%AA Bus Terminal The Tietê Bus Terminal ( Portuguese : Terminal Rodoviário Tietê )

143-424: The term bus depot can also be used to refer to a bus station, it can also refer to a bus garage . A bus station is larger than a bus stop , which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop. It may be intended as a terminal station for a number of routes, or as a transfer station where the routes continue. Bus station platforms may be assigned to fixed bus lines, or variable in combination with

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156-410: The terminal operates 24 hours a day and serves 21 Brazilian states . There are 65 bus companies, 135 ticket counters, and 304 bus lines, serving 1,010 cities in five countries (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay). To accommodate this volume, there are 70 boarding platforms and 19 platforms for arrivals. On the busiest days, according to need, the platforms can be reversed. Coaches also have

169-590: Was described in 2014 as "depending on how you measure it, the largest bus station in the world, the second-biggest in Europe, and the longest in Europe". It was fully refurbished in 2018. The largest bus terminal in North America is the Port Authority Bus Terminal located in New York City. The terminal is located in Midtown at 625 Eighth Avenue between 40th Street and 42nd Street, one block east of

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