This is where you can post news articles, press releases, news, tenders, information, etc. about our MRT, LRT, RTS, HSR, monorail, etc.
Basically, if you come across any information regarding the RTS in Singapore, just post here.
*RTS (Rapid Transit System) - "a ground based passenger transit system operated by passenger-carrying vehicles constrained to operate on a fixed guideway." (page 35).
This thread is for us to discuss the news and information we found out about our RTS.
Thomson-East Coast Line, connecting North and East, ready by 2024
The country's sixth rail line - the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) - will be fully operational by 2024, the Land Transport Authority announced on Friday (Aug 15).
The previously-announced Eastern Region Line and the Thomson Line will be joined to form the single, continuous line, which will span about 43 kilometres with a total of 31 stations, seven of which will be interchanges.
Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew, speaking at a visit to the soon-to-open Marina South Pier Station on Friday, said that when fully operational in 2024, the TEL will serve about 500,000 commuters daily. This could rise to 1 million passengers daily in the longer term.
The East Coast part of the TEL is budgeted to cost $6.8 billion, bringing the total cost of the TEL to about $24 billion. The Land Transport Authority will also build Singapore's first underground bicycle parks at MRT stations. They will be located at Marine Parade, Marine Terrace, Bayshore, and Sungei Bedok stations.
- Saifulbahri Ismail, 2014. Thomson-East Coast Line, connecting North and East, ready by 2024. Channel NewsAsia [online], 15 August 2014. Available from: http://www.channelnewsasia.com [Accessed 17 August 2014].
Works on Springleaf MRT station start
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/works-on-springleaf-mrt/1316352.html
Seems like very few people like to discuss trains unlike buses.
Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:Seems like very few people like to discuss trains unlike buses.
Bro there WERE a lot of train fans...
But they created an empire, then gave each other fancy titles like CEO, COO, blah blah in the trains forums, too much bickering online and creating certain scenes in public trains and left SGF...
Mostly kiddos...
Shorter travel time on North-South Line by November: SMRT
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/shorter-travel-time-on/1321576.html
more train will be launch