Editing Bus station (section)

==Largest bus stations==
[[Kilambakkam bus terminus]] in Chennai is spread over an area of {{convert|88.52|acre|m2|order=flip}}, making it the largest bus station in the world.<ref name="thehindu20051228">{{cite news  | last = Dorairaj   | first = S.   | title = Koyambedu bus terminus gets ISO certification  | location = Chennai  | date = 28 December 2005  | url = http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/28/stories/2005122816740400.htm  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060705012703/http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/28/stories/2005122816740400.htm  | url-status = dead  | archive-date = 5 July 2006  | newspaper = [[The Hindu]]   | access-date = 16 Oct 2011}}</ref><ref name="OI_ChennaiTurns375">{{cite news | last = Sharma | first = Reethu | title = Chennai turns 375: Things you should know about 'Gateway to South India' | newspaper = One India | location = Chennai | pages = | language = | date = 23 August 2014 | url = https://www.oneindia.com/feature/chennai-turns-375-years-old-things-you-should-know-1507481.html?story=1 | access-date = 31 December 2021}}</ref>

[[File:Woodlands Integrated Transport Hub 20210614 183304.jpg|thumb|[[Woodlands Bus Interchange]] in Singapore]]
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.<ref>See [[List of bus stations in Singapore#Bus interchanges 2|list of bus interchanges in Singapore by number of services]]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/bus-interchange-rolls-out-free-buggy-rides-and-more|title=Bus interchange rolls out free buggy rides and more|last=Khew|first=Carolyn|date=13 March 2016|access-date=15 Jun 2019|newspaper=The Straits Times|location=Singapore}}</ref> 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 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.<ref name=kamppi1>{{cite web|url=http://www.xtralis.com/file.cfm?id=423 |title=Kamppi –The Helsinki Underground Bus Terminal |publisher=Xtralis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915184010/http://www.xtralis.com/file.cfm?id=423 |archive-date=2009-09-15 |access-date=2010-02-07 |format=pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Preston Bus Station]] in Preston, England, built in 1969 and later [[heritage-listed]], 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".<ref>{{cite web | last=Baker | first=Martin | title=Love, hate and concrete: The battle for Preston Bus Station | website=The Independent | date=4 January 2014 | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/love-hate-and-concrete-the-battle-for-preston-bus-station-9035713.html | access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref> It was fully refurbished in 2018.<ref name="Newsroom 2018">{{cite web | last=Newsroom | first=The | title=Preston bus station's grand reopening after Â£19m facelift | website=Lancashire Evening Post | date=10 July 2018 | url=https://www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/preston-bus-stations-grand-reopening-after-aps19m-facelift-1015241 | access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref>

The largest bus terminal in North America is the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]] located in New York City.{{cn|date=October 2021}} The terminal is located in Midtown at 625 Eighth Avenue between 40th Street and 42nd Street, one block east of 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.{{cn|date=October 2021}} 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.{{cn|date=October 2021}}

The largest bus terminal in the southern hemisphere is the [[Tietê Bus Terminal]] located in São Paulo, Brazil.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/especial/2006/saopaulo452/conheca_sao_paulo.shtml|date=2006-01-23|access-date=2022-01-29|title=Conheça São Paulo|lang=pt-BR|publisher=Folha de S. Paulo}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.terminalrodoviariodotiete.com.br/sobre-o-terminal/|title=Sobre o Terminal|website=Terminal Rodoviário do Tietê|access-date=2022-01-29|lang=pt-BR}}</ref> The terminal is also linked to [[Portuguesa-Tietê]], an adjacent metro station.