SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) lately introduced on social media that they’re planning so as to add six bus stops that may serve each instructions close to three places alongside the Tampines Expressway—the Jalan Kayu Flyover, Punggol West Flyover, and Punggol East Flyover.
Based on the authorities, this undertaking will cowl three new pairs of bus stops alongside the Tampines Expressway, pedestrian overhead bridges (POBs) geared up with lifts, and coated linkways and footpaths. These upgrades goal to reinforce public accessibility and make transfers between current bus providers a lot simpler.
Moreover, these will enable extra residents dwelling throughout the space to achieve bus stops inside a five-minute stroll, and it’s anticipated to learn an extra 5,000 households.
Learn extra about LTA’s new undertaking right here.
“It’s going to decelerate the journey’
These upgrades gained a mixture of reactions from the netizens. Some netizens had been grateful for the initiative, however others expressed their opinions.
One netizen claimed: “So now these buses can have extra stops, which means extra time taken to achieve their respective locations additionally…”
One other netizen steered that the LTA ought to introduce a brand new bus that may skip all these bus stops. Moreover, yet one more netizen claimed that with the highway state of affairs proper now, it’s already tough to come back out of the expressway, and but the authorities need to construct extra bus stops that may decelerate the journey of many drivers and commuters.
“Gonna be a a lot slower commute alongside Tampines Expressway!” a remark concluded.
