Wenya... is actually a messed up place. It was supposed to be a HDB area but somehow,
the government changed its mind and decided to halt HDB
developments there and re-zone it to be an Industrial area, without
considering the HDB developments already at Wenya. As a result,
there are now many complications that has to be settled to combine
the HDB developments with the new industrial
developments.
The
"new"(at 2012) plan for Wenya was to construct 2 new Minor
Arterial (Category 3) roads - Wenya Avenue and Wenya Drive - and 2
new 21.4m-wide roads.
The Road plan for Wenya shown in the 2013 URA Master
Plan is a different one. It seems that the Road plan for
Wenya has not yet been finalised; there will be more changes to the
Road plan for Wenya and construction of the new road network would
probably continue only when everything is settled and things are
finalised.
For instance, in the 2012
plan, the new Wenya Drive was to be constructed next to the
existing compound of Westwood Secondary
School. However,
Westwood Secondary School needs to expand its compound to
accomodate an Indoor Sports Hall and additional blocks.
According to the 2013 Mater Plans, there seems to be some demand
to include Civic & Community Institutions and Places of Worship
in Wenya, which explains why the road network is a different one.
The expansion of Westwood Secondary School's compound is going to
change the road plan again.
This may explain why the construction of the bus depot has not
yet started, as the new Wenya Drive might be part
of Phase
2 construction of
roads, drains and sewers at Wenya and there has to at least be an
extension of Wenya Road to the future junction before the
constuction of the bus depot could begin.
Nonetheless, since azharjj mentioned that , as of yesterday,
there were "tipper trucks going in & out to a deep forested
area that is now being cleared", I suppose Phase 2 (or part of it)
has already begun and construction of the new Wenya Bus Depot
should start soon - at around June this year - when Phase 2 (or the
part of it needed to facilitate construction of the bus depot) is
completed.
Meanwhile, at Jurong East, construction of the new Big Box building
started in March last year and right now, the "shape" is already
there. Based on this, I
guess the new Wenya Bus Depot would require around 1.5 years to
construct, since it should be "smaller" than Big Box and would
require less time to construct.
If start at around June this
year, Wenya Bus Depot should be ready by the end of 2015.
#justsaying
true.
According to last time URA plan, the current wenya ave
was supposed to be jurong west ave 3 &
then the roads around it got jurong west st 30+ like
st 31, 32, 33 etc
how u know westwood sec going to expand & use the land
beside it?
it's my ex-sec sch btw lol
and very sorry, off topic
