Singapore’s Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway is ranked among the
best managed tunnels in Europe, both in design and
safety.
That’s according to the prestigious European Tunnel Assessment
Programme, EuroTap.
EuroTAP examines the preventative, detection, mitigating and
self-rescue features of a tunnel as well as its risk and safety
potentials.
An independent benchmarking exercise conducted in July this year,
ranked the KPE in the band of "very good."
That's the top rating under the European Union Directive on Safety
Requirements for Road Tunnels in Europe.
There's no mandatory requirement for tunnels in Singapore to
benchmark against any international safety standards.
But the Land Transport Authority says it has undertaken this
assessment to ensure that the design and operations of KPE are able
to meet the same rigorous international standards that are required
of European tunnels.
--938Live
