Newest pedestrian link between HarbourFront and West Coast Park launched
Come 2011, Singaporeans will be able to set foot on a part of Singapore's coastline that is currently inaccessible to the public.
The Labrador area, which is near Alexandra Road, has one of the few mangrove swamps in the south of Singapore. And plans are afoot to open a nature and coastal walk there.
It is part of a larger push to give a green hue to leisure and recreation in the southern part of Singapore.
The $10-million project, consisting of a 2.2-km trail and boardwalk, will be added to a 9-km series of green links starting from HarbourFront MRT Station and ending at West Coast Park.
The first of the links — two pedestrian bridges known as Henderson Waves and Alexandra Arch at the southern ridges (Mount Faber, Telok Blangah Hill and Kent Ridge Park) — was officially launched last Saturday.
Yesterday, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) revealed details of the Labrador segment of its southern initiative.
The Labrador Nature and Coastal Walk will be connected to the southern ridges via an 830-metre Alexandra Road Garden Trail, which will see footpaths being widened and cycle paths built, as well as more landscaping being done alongside existing matured trees to act as a buffer from the traffic along Alexandra Road.
After crossing Telok Blangah Road, a visitor would reach the 960-metre Berlayer Creek Mangrove Trail, which will feature an entrance plaza with an information gallery about the mangroves, as well as a rest area. The proposed trail will have lookout points with storyboards about the flora and fauna.
At the end of the Creek would be the 330-metre Bukit Chermin Harbour View Walk, which will have an elevated walkway providing scenic waterfront views of Keppel Harbour and Sentosa, in an area that was once exclusive to members of the Keppel Club.
URA's conservation and development services director Ler Seng Ann told reporters that the project aims to "enhance the southern ridges and southern waterfront as a recreational leisure destination … to allow the public to appreciate and enjoy areas that were previously inaccessible".
He added that construction work, scheduled to start next year, would be carried out carefully to ensure that the ecosystem would not be affected.
The nature and coastal walk is scheduled to be completed in tandem with the opening of the Labrador Park MRT station along the Circle Line.
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