JB Sentral Bus Terminal

JB Sentral Bus Terminal is a bus terminal in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Located beside the JB Sentral Railway Station, the terminal serves the Johor Bahru Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) Complex, City Square and Komtar JBCC shopping malls.

The terminal is one of two bus termini served by Singapore public bus operators, the other being Larkin Bus Terminal.

Details:

History:

JB Sentral Bus Terminal is a relatively new bus terminal built in the late 2000s as part of the new JB Sentral Railway Station and accompanying JB Customs Complex. Located as part of the JB Sentral Railway Station building, the terminal serves a number of local bus services to the outer regions of Johor Bahru.

This terminal initially started operations as a bus terminal for Zon Barat (West Zone) public bus services in Johor Bahru, referring to neighbourhoods and towns located at the west side of Johor Bahru City. As a general principle, West Zone bus services ply destinations that are located along Route No. 3 (Tebrau Highway) or west of Route No. 1 (Skudai Highway). When the JB Sentral terminal started operations, it helped to ease congestion along Jalan Wong Ah Fook (referred to ‘Bandaraya’ or ‘City Square’ by most JB commuters), which used to be the starting and terminating point for all buses in downtown JB.

Following the closure of Jalan Wong Ah Fook to all bus services, from 18th May 2015, all East Zone and West Zone public bus services were amended to start and terminate at JB Sentral terminal, which led to severe congestion and overcrowding at the terminal. While West Zone buses used to layover at the 11 bus berths before their next departure, bus operators such as Causeway Link and Maju now no longer layover their buses at the terminal. Buses will disembark passengers at the entrance ramp to the terminal, then proceed to layover on the side of the road along Jalan Jim Quee. Buses will only enter the berth a few minutes before their next departure.

The CWA Senai Airport Shuttle AA1 provides direct connection to Senai Airport.

The terminal:

Following the closure of Kotaraya II Bus Terminal on 01 Nov 2014, local bus services 160, 170X and 950 were made to loop at Jln Tun Abdul Razak before their relocation to JB Sentral Bus Terminal. This marked the first time that cross-border bus services were made to serve the terminal.

Owing to the shortage of berths, Service 160, 170X and 950 do not have designated berths at the terminal. They park for short periods at parking lots away from the passenger concourse, and timekeepers keep track of arriving and departing buses. See Gallery for the bus boarding area.

Due to the proximity of the bus terminal with the JB CIQ complex, few passengers would opt to take the bus between JB CIQ and JB Sentral Bus Terminal.

Takeover of Jln Wong Ah Fook services

As of 18th May 2015, all bus services previously calling at Jln Wong Ah Fook (except JB1) were relocated to JB Sentral Bus Terminal. The huge increase in bus and passenger traffic at the terminal has led to frequent jams along Jalan Jim Quee leading to the terminal.

Moving of West Zone Services (Zon Barat) to Jln Jim Quee

From 17 November 2o19, the boarding and alighting point for West Zone bus services at JB Sentral Bus Terminal was moved across the road, along Jalan Jim Quee, where new bus shelters and bus bays were built. Existing East Zone bus services (including Causeway Link LM1, JPO1), including cross-border routes 160, 170X and 950, remain at the Terminal.

Bus services to Singapore:

Board from JB Sentral Terminal:

JB Local Bus Services:

A. Larkin & East Zone Services (Zon Timur) – Board from JB Sentral Terminal

B. West Zone Services (Zon Barat) – Board from Jalan Jim Quee (opposite Bus Terminal)

Gallery

(Singapore Buses) Route to JB Sentral Ter:

Old Routing:

Buses from JB CIQ will follow the only exit out to the Inner Ring Road (Jalan Lingkaran Dalam), making a U-turn at the multi-tier flyover junction with Tebrau Highway (Lebuhraya Tebrau), right turn into Jalan Tanjung Puteri, another right turn into Jalan Jim Quee and entering JB Sentral Terminal on the left.

Buses from JB Sentral Terminal will exit to Jalan Jim Quee and head back to JB CIQ via Jalan Tanjung Puteri and Jalan Lingkaran Dalam, making a U-turn at the multi-tier flyover junction with Lebuhraya Tebrau. This is because public buses can only enter the checkpoint complex from Jalan Lingkaran Dalam (eastbound).

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