HOME buyers have snapped up eight units at Waterfront Key and six at Waterfront Gold in the Bedok Reservoir area in the days since last week's news that an MRT station will be built nearby. Developer Frasers Centrepoint Homes said the units have been sold since the Government announced details of Stage 3 of the MRT Downtown Line last Friday. The firm will also officially launch Waterfront Gold this...
Downtown Line
A day after more details of the Downtown Line were announced, observers are already predicting a hike in property prices in those areas. Residents of Tampines and Bedok can expect five more stations serving their estates. And Jalan Besar will see a new station as well. Homes around the Downtown Line linking Singapore Expo in the east to Bukit Panjang in the north-west are likely to see property prices...
Details of the eastern section of the Downtown Line are out, and residents of Tampines and Bedok can expect five more rail stations serving their estates. But they may have to wait a little longer than planned, as the line will be completed in 2017. The challenge of engineering works is one of the reasons given for the one-year delay. Residents in the east will have another MRT line to town. The...
Australian construction company McConnell Dowell has clinched the contract to build the Beauty World station at Stage 2 of the Downtown MRT Line. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) says the S$339.88 million project, scheduled to commence in the second quarter of the year, is targeted for completion in 2015. The Beauty World station is located along Upper Bukit Timah Road, off Jalan Jurong Kechil. It...
Construction and property group, Koh Brothers Group Ltd, has won a contract worth S$582 million from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to build the Downtown Line 1 Bugis station and its associated tunnels. Koh Brothers said this is the single largest contract it has ever clinched. The 4.3-kilometre section of the Downtown Line 1 runs from Bugis station on the East-West Line to Chinatown station on the...
One of Singapore's oldest hotels has finally called it a day after 55 years. The New 7th Storey Hotel at Rochor Road is making way for the new Bugis MRT station. The new Bugis station is one of the six that make up the 4.3-kilometre Downtown Line One, which is scheduled to open in 2013. Authorities said demolition of the hotel is unavoidable due to engineering constraints. The owners spent some...
Residents living in the north-western part of Singapore can look forward to faster and more direct access to the city centre, when construction of Stage Two of the Downtown Line rail network is completed in 2015. The 16.6 kilometre-long line comprises one depot at Gali Batu and 12 stations stretching from Rochor, along Bukit Timah Road and Bukit Panjang, to Petir. It will have three interchange stations...
Construction of the Downtown Line began on February 12 and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said it will decide where to build future stations for the new line after looking at commuter traffic. Besides the Chinatown Station, the first phase will consist of another five stations. But for the other 27 stations, which fall under phases two and three, the LTA has yet to finalise their locations on the...
* Radical plan for parallel rail lines * Extensions to Tuas, Marina South * Earlier opening of two stations THE problem is a familiar one: The passenger squeeze in MRT trains. The solution is radical — at least in the Singaporean context: Build two new lines that run parallel to the present routes at a cost of $20 billion. One will run from Marina Bay and end at Woodlands, very...
In a massive new investment, the government will pump in another S$20 billion on new rail lines and extensions islandwide, Transport Minister Raymond Lim announced Friday. This is over and above the S$20 billion the government has already committed for the on-going Boon Lay extension, the Circle Line and the Downtown Line. Mr Lim said the new and extended lines will go to places as diverse as Marine...