Punggol Temporary Bus Interchange  Punggol Temporary Bus Interchange is a temporary bus interchange in Punggol New Town, located adjacent to the Punggol MRT/LRT station. It was built to allow for easy dismantling when the site is redeveloped as part of a major commercial development when Punggol New Town is more developed. The bus interchange was officially opened on 30 November 2003. Before the opening of the Punggol Bus Interchange, there is only one bus terminal at Punggol, which is the Punggol Road End Bus Terminal, which has been existed since the 1980s and is home to bus services 82 and 83. Service 83 was shortened to Hougang Central Bus Interchange, and renumbered service 147 in June 1992, and service 147 was amended via Stamford Road, Selegie Road and Little India area skipping Victoria Street and Lavender Street. Service 82 was converted to a loop service from Serangoon to Punggol Road End with the opening of the North East line, as the actual route duplicated most of services 100 and 107, before it was amended to terminate at the interchange and loop at Serangoon Central, while it no longer serves Punggol Point. With the amendment, a new service 84 was introduced to cover the lost sectors of service 82 which originally served Punggol Point. The SGD $1.9-million temporary Punggol Bus Interchange took 10 months to construct and was officially opened on 30 November 2003 by Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC Teo Chee Hean. Before the opening of the interchange, Punggol's only bus terminal was the Punggol Road End Bus Terminal which had only two bus services, 82 and 83. The bus terminal was closed and converted into a bus stop when the interchange started operations. In April 2015, LTA announced that the Punggol Temporary Bus Interchange will be expanded from its current to to cater for 13 new bus spaces on top of the current 38. New boarding berths and an expanded concourse will be added once the construction is complete. Expansion works started in the third quarter of 2015 and were completed on 1 October 2017. With the opening of the interchange, Service 83, plying between Sengkang and Punggol, was amended to terminate here, instead of the pair of bus-stops below Punggol. Service 3 was extended from its original looping point at Pasir Ris Street 71 to provide direct links between Punggol and the new towns of Pasir Ris and Tampines, while Service 62 and Service 136 were extended from the former Hougang South Bus Interchange and Upper Serangoon Road to this interchange respectively.