By Fann Sim | Yahoo! Newsroom – 20 hours ago
Flooding at the
basement of Lucky Plaza on Orchard Road. (Photo courtesy of Ana
Kristina Tesoro)
Flash floods hit the Orchard Road area and other parts of Singapore
on Friday afternoon following heavy rain.
Water was seen to have seeped into the linkway
between Orchard MRT
station and Tangs, while Liat Towers on Orchard
Road also suffered flooding around it.
In its updates on Facebook, national water agency PUB said at 5:25pm
that flash floods occurred at
Cuscaden Road, Newton
Circus, Kampong Java, Lincoln Road, Wee Nam Road, Cambridge
Road and junction
of Bukit Timah
Road and Sixth Avenue.
There was also ponding reported at Orchard Link at 3:58pm and
Monk's Hill Terrace at 5:22pm.
All flash floods and ponding had
subsided by 6:35pm, it said.
Reader Sudar Zainal said that as a
result of the rain, many people took shelter at Lucky Plaza,
creating heavy human traffic there.
Separately, PUB announced on Friday that it is planning
to roll out 10 drainage improvement projects on top of 26 drainage
projects that commenced this month.
The new projects involve expanding roadside drains at flood-prone
areas such as South Bridge Road, North Canal Road, Upper Hokien
Street, Upper Pickering Street, Bencoolen Street, Prinsep Street,
Rochor Road (from Waterloo Street to Bencoolen Street), Admiralty
Road West, Neo Pee Teck Lane, First Lok Yang Road, Arab Street and
Rochor Canal Road.
The PUB will
also improve drainage infrastructure at three other non-flood prone
areas by expanding drains at Shanghai Road and Wee Nam Road and Outram Road
and Tiong Bahru Road. It will also perform road raising at Jalan
Dusun, Jalan Datoh and Jalan Raja Udang.
The works will commence in the first quarter of 2012 and are
expected to be completed in 2013.
