Source : The Business Times, March 29, 2008
SINGAPORE will have 10 integrated public transport hubs in about 10 years.
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) yesterday awarded a ‘white’ site at Serangoon Central for an integrated development to a unit of Pramerica RealEstate Investors (Asia) and reiterated that four more integrated public transport hubs will be built - at Marina South, Jurong, Joo Koon and Bedok - over the next 10 years.
Typically, these developments comprise air-conditioned bus interchanges, MRT stations and retail/other developments.
So far, three such hubs have been completed - at Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh and Sengkang. Another two are being built - at Boon Lay and Clementi - slated for completion by 2009 and 2011 respectively, LTA announced.
‘Integrated public transport hubs will enhance connectivity by making our bus interchanges and MRT stations more accessible,’ LTA chief executive Yam Ah Mee said in a statement yesterday.
‘Residents have told us they enjoy the comfort and convenience of our air-conditioned bus interchanges at Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh and Sengkang. Public transport ridership at these areas has gone up steadily.’
Pramerica Asia will develop a mall on the Serangoon Central site, which it clinched for $800.9 million or $850 psf per plot ratio.
LTA said in its statement: ‘Under this tender, the developer will design and construct a development with a bus interchange, to be integrated with the Serangoon North-East Line MRT Station and the Serangoon Circle Line MRT Station.’
In its release yesterday, LTA did not give the locations of the four new integrated public transport hubs.
But market watchers reckon the ones in Jurong and Bedok are likely to be around the existing Jurong East and Bedok MRT stations.
The Marina South hub could be in the vicinity of a new station planned to serve the new cruise terminal at Marina South as part of an extension to the current North-South Line, which now ends at Marina Bay Station.
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