A bus station or bus depot is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the sidewalk (UK: pavement) 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. The largest bus station in the world is The Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. The station, which was opened in 1993 has a built area of 230,000 m² and a total area of 44 dunams (44,000 m²). However, this station was considered for a long time as a failure, mainly due to its location in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong owns an extensive network of bus routes carrying millions of passengers in the city. Large bus termini are often built near housing estates, shopping malls, ferry piers, MTR stations. Most of them are in open areas, and others are beneath of high podia, so that double-deck buses can stop there, if lack of open areas nearby.
See also
- Intercity bus services
- Brisbane Queen Street Bus Station (Australia)
- Montreal Bus Terminal (Canada)
- Ottawa Bus Central Station (Canada)
- Toronto Bus Terminal (Canada)
- Jerusalem Central Bus Station (Israel)
- Tel Aviv Central Bus Station (Israel)
- Mahatma Gandhi Bus Terminus, Hyderabad (India)
- Toronto Union Station GO Bus Terminal (Canada)
- Sežana Bus Station (Slovenia)
- Preston Bus Station (United Kingdom)
- Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City (United States)
- New York George Washington Bridge Bus Station (United States)
- Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal (United States)
- Bus stations in Singapore
