Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development, delivered a
speech last Saturday on how to meet the challenge of meeting the
land use needs for greater economic activities and a larger
population. One key area that he covered, which is of particular
interest to me, is how to meet the transport needs of a growing
population.
It's rare that Ministry of National Development articulated clear
views on how the transport needs should be fulfilled, which by
right should be coming from Ministry of Transport. But that aside,
there's really nothing ground breaking in Mr Mah's speech: most of
what he said were already publicly announced before.
Except for one thing: he sheds more light on Downtown Line. Prior
to his speech, what was publicly announced was it will be a 40-km
line combining the Downtown Extension, Bukit Timah Line and Eastern
Region Line. What's new is that it will consist of 33 stations. In
addition, Bukit Timah Line will also cover Choa Chu Kang (previous
announcements cover Millenia Walk to Bukit Panjang), and Eastern
Region Line will extend all the way to Bedok Reservoir and Tampines
(previous announcement covers Jalan Besar and Macpherson
only).
Source: http://sgtransport.blogspot.com