Channel NewsAsia - Saturday, May
31
SINGAPORE : The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be widening
various stretches of the Central Expressway (CTE).
This was announced by LTA when it gave details of the first
stretch to be widened — the section from Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 to Ang
Mo Kio Avenue 3. The existing three lanes will be widened to
four.
LTA said this is to enhance connectivity and cater to the future
population growth in the northeast.
Construction will begin next Monday and it is scheduled to be
completed by the end of next year.
Meanwhile, LTA will put up signs about some of the road closures
so that motorists can be diverted to alternative routes.
LTA also said three more stretches of the CTE will be widened by
the end of 2011 and these fall between the Pan—Island Expressway
and Yio Chu Kang Road.
LTA will be calling for contracts to widen these three stretches
by the end of the year. — CNA/ms