There is a traffic jam at Telok Kurau Road in the direction of
Marine Parade in the morning.
Telok Kurau Road is rather narrow. The vehicles are queuing up
one after another. These are people going to work or sending their
children to school. From Telok Kurau Road, one can get to Marine
Parade Road and then onto East Coast Parkway toward the city. There
are a couple of schools in East Coast and Marine Parade - St.
Patrick, CHIJ Katong and Tao Nan.
Sometime the traffic jam can be quite bad. The queue can reach as
far back as Lorong K and Lorong J. And all the other cars coming
out from the side roads (for example: Lorong J, K, L, M and N) have
difficulties too.
The Proposal
At the junction of Telok Kurau with East Coast Road, there are
two lanes. One for going straight (to the direction of Marine
Parade) or turning left (to the direction of Siglap). Another one
for turing right (to the direction of Still Road)
It is proposed that Telok Kurau Road be widened at the junction
with East Coast Road by adding a lane for turning left. So that it
will ease the load on the exisiting one lane for turning left and
going straight. This is especially useful when there are
pedestrians crossing at East Coast Road and if the first vehicle is
turing left, it got to wait and give way and hold up all the other
vehicles behind.
There will be 3 lanes, one for turning left (new), one for going
straight (only) and one for turning right (no change).
This proposal is being submitted to the Land Transport Authority
(LTA).
Residents of Telok Kurau (and maybe Joo Chiat as well) are
invited to add your comments in this blog.