New MRT Lines coming your way
LTA has unveiled plans for new Bukit Timah MRT (BTL) and Eastern Regional MRT Lines (ERL). The Straits Times reported that LTA has began preliminary work on the two lines.
The BTL will link Upper Bt Timah to the city and is scheduled to be completed around 2016. The ERL will loop around the Jalan Besar and East Coast areas and may be completed after 2020.
On-going projects include the Boon Lay Extension (2 new stations) which will be completed by 2009 and the Circle Line which will be fully completed in 2010.
What is next? The Thomson Line, the equivalent of the CTE for trains to transverse north-south. Time to buy a house near Thomson Road?
Eventually, there will be more than 540km of rail lines, more than the 408km of the London's Tube system.
Estimated rail ridership will go up to 1.5 million a day when the Circle Line is up. This unfortunately still pales in comparison to the 2.1 million bus ridership figure. Perhaps the government should be investing more money on bus facilities (e.g. bus lanes, bus terminals, handicap-access buses, NextBus information, longer running hours etc).
The BTL will link Upper Bt Timah to the city and is scheduled to be completed around 2016. The ERL will loop around the Jalan Besar and East Coast areas and may be completed after 2020.
On-going projects include the Boon Lay Extension (2 new stations) which will be completed by 2009 and the Circle Line which will be fully completed in 2010.
What is next? The Thomson Line, the equivalent of the CTE for trains to transverse north-south. Time to buy a house near Thomson Road?
Eventually, there will be more than 540km of rail lines, more than the 408km of the London's Tube system.
Estimated rail ridership will go up to 1.5 million a day when the Circle Line is up. This unfortunately still pales in comparison to the 2.1 million bus ridership figure. Perhaps the government should be investing more money on bus facilities (e.g. bus lanes, bus terminals, handicap-access buses, NextBus information, longer running hours etc).
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