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 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.
17-565: The Newark Transit Hub is a bus terminal located in the city of Newark in New Castle County , Delaware . The transit hub serves DART First State buses, with service provided by five local bus routes serving New Castle County. In addition to DART First State buses, the Newark Transit Hub also serves Cecil Transit buses providing service to Elkton, Maryland . The transit hub opened in 2008. The Newark Transit Hub
34-406: A colour-coded queue scheme. Soon after it opened, in 1981, the interchange was partially demolished and expanded at a cost of S$ 3 million, and work was completed in 1983. After the expansion, the interchange covered 1.7 hectares (4.2 acres) and had 32 end-on berths, 7 sawtooth berths and 33 remote parking bays. Several bus services were moved to the interchange from Chai Chee Bus Terminal when
51-513: A temporary site along Bedok North Drive to allow the original facility to be rebuilt as planned. The new Bedok Integrated Transport Hub (ITH) began operations on 30 November 2014. With the completion of the ITH, Bedok residents are able to transfer in air-conditioned comfort between bus and MRT services at Bedok MRT station. It was the 7th bus interchange in Singapore to be air-conditioned. Under
68-600: 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 ,
85-505: Is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Bedok , Singapore . It is situated approximately in the centre of Bedok town, and is located along Bedok North Interchange and Bedok North Drive, on the second level of Bedok Mall . It is connected to Bedok MRT station on the East–West line . The original facility opened on 25 February 1979. It was the first interchange in Singapore to use
102-529: Is located in the eastern part of the city of Newark in northern New Castle County , Delaware a short distance east the downtown area and the University of Delaware campus. The bus terminal is situated north of East Delaware Avenue, which carries eastbound Delaware Route 273 , and south of East Main Street, which carries westbound Delaware Route 273. The Pomeroy and Newark Rail Trail passes north–south to
119-546: 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
136-735: 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
153-459: The Bedok town centre and rebuilding the original facility into an air-conditioned one, integrated with a proposed commercial development (Bedok Mall) and proposed residential development (Bedok Residences), resembling Boon Lay Bus Interchange . The original facility was demolished after 32 years of operations, to make way for the development. On 19 November 2011, the original bus interchange moved to
170-740: The Newark Transit Hub to points in New Castle County. The Route 6 bus connects the transit hub to the Wilmington train station in Wilmington via Delaware Route 2 . The Route 33 bus connects the transit hub with the Christiana Mall and downtown Wilmington. The Route 46 bus connects the transit hub to Glasgow and Middletown . The Route 53 bus connects the Newark Transit Hub to the DMV in Delaware City . The Route 55 bus links
187-790: The Newark Transit Hub. Construction of the transit hub cost $ 1.2 million and was funded 80 percent by the federal government and 20 percent by the state government. DART First State buses began serving the Newark Transit Hub in June 2008, with the routing of several bus routes modified as a result of the bus terminal opening. A formal opening ceremony for the Newark Transit Hub was held on August 21, 2008, with Delaware Department of Transportation secretary Carolann Wicks, Newark Mayor Vance A. Funk III, State Senator Liane Sorenson , State Representatives John Kowalko and Terry Schooley, and Newark City Council member Doug Tuttle in attendance. There are five local bus routes operated by DART First State that connect
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#1732773249373204-425: The east side. Prior to the construction of the Newark Transit Hub, DART First State buses serving Newark made several stops along the streets of downtown Newark, contributing to traffic congestion. As a result, the Newark Transit Hub was planned in order to consolidate the bus stops into a centralized location to allow for easier transfers and to reduce congestion along streets. On March 24, 2008, construction began on
221-687: 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. Bedok Bus Interchange 1°32′51″N 104°33′35″E / 1.54750°N 104.55972°E / 1.54750; 104.55972 Bedok Bus Interchange
238-634: The terminal closed in 1985. Bedok MRT station opened in 1989 at the south of the original facility, complementing the bus interchange to serve people travelling within Bedok town and also the nearby East Coast Park . Based on the Urban Redevelopment Authority 's 2003 Master Plan, it was indicated that the bus interchange would be redeveloped. This was confirmed in early 2011 when the Housing and Development Board (HDB) announced plans to rejuvenate Bedok, which involved redeveloping
255-619: The transit hub with the Christiana Mall via Old Baltimore Pike . Cecil Transit 's Route 4, which runs along a loop route providing service to and from Elkton, Maryland , also serves the Newark Transit Hub. Bus station Bus station platforms may be assigned to fixed bus lines, or variable in combination with a dynamic passenger information system. The latter requires fewer platforms, but does not provide consistent locations for passengers. Kilambakkam bus terminus in Chennai
272-406: The west of the transit hub. The transit hub is located on the north side of East Delaware Avenue and consists of a bus shelter with benches and trash cans on the sidewalk adjacent to the roadways serving the buses. The Newark Transit Hub also has bicycle racks available. Two roads serve the bus terminal, with northbound Pomeroy Lane running along the west side and southbound Farmer Lane running along
289-670: 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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