ROADS AND RIDES: FASTER, RAIL NETWORK: BETTER CONNECTIVITY, SHORTER COMMUTES Journey Woodlands COMFORTABLE, INCLUSIVE North Existing rail line Upcoming rail line REGIONAL CENTRES Coast NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR The 21.5km North-South Corridor, which LTMP 2040 rail initiatives Upcoming rail lines (stations not nalised) Four regional employment centres will bring jobs closer to the heartland. This will towards shorten the commute for work and help move towards a 45-minute city. TRANSIT PRIORITY CORRIDORS will be ready in 2026, will be Singapore’s longest transit priority corridor and can Bus-only roads may be introduced as part of Downtown Line extension: To extend beyond Bukit Feasibility study for a new rail line to 2040 save passengers up to 15 minutes of WRC Woodlands Regional Centre PDD Punggol Digital District efforts to improve bus speeds. The Land North-South Panjang to serve the north-western region. DTL to serve new and growing developments North travel time. Areas being considered for Transport Authority (LTA) is also looking at Corridor Tengah such corridors include Robinson Road join NSL at the interchange station and existing towns that do not enjoy introducing dedicated bus lanes and giving Loyang access to rail network (for example, A convenient, and Loyang, as well as new districts such buses priority at traf c signal junctions in Woodlands, , , well-connected, as Tengah and the Lake District. existing and future roads. North, Whampoa, inclusive, fast and North-East WRC and the Greater Southern Waterfront). comfortable transport Jurong Region system is in the works Canal Drive Extension for all Singaporeans. 2 new North-South Bayshore LIFTS Jurong CURRENT PRIORITY CORRIDOR Line stations: PDD At least 29 more Lake There is only one such corridor now in • Sungei Kadut station pedestrian District Bencoolen Street, where the previously Woodlands Regional Centre is earmarked to be the The Punggol Digital District will be a centre for digital Bencoolen • Brickland station overhead bridges, Street four-lane street was redesigned to allow largest economic hub in the northern region, with and cyber-security industries that generate up to including those for wider walkways and a cycling path, as about 100ha of land for development. It will have two 28,000 digital economy jobs, and could house near hospitals Robinson well as one dedicated lane for buses. precincts: a waterfront and leisure destination and government agencies. The 50ha area will also be Road and polyclinics, JID pedestrian-friendly regional retail hub serving residents car-lite, with infrastructure such as parking spaces will be installed in the northern part of the island. located underground. with lifts by 2022. JLD JID Jurong Innovation District JLD District

CLEANER ENERGY NEW BUS DISPLAYS CYCLING PATH SAFER FOR Thomson-East Coast The LTA has committed to a These panels will NETWORK THE ELDERLY Line extension: To 100 per cent cleaner energy provide information The length of A trial to lower provide direct rail bus eet by 2040 and all on the next four the cycling path speed limits from connection to taxi companies have also stops along the bus network will be 40kmh to 30kmh Airport, passing through committed to a 100 per cent route and the bus more than will be conducted future Terminal 5 cleaner eet by then. location relative to 1,000km by in selected Silver these stops. They will 2040. Zones. be installed in all The Jurong Innovation District is envisioned as the The is being developed into buses by 2040. industrial park of the future. It will bring together Singapore’s second Central Business District, PRIORITY CABINS AND QUEUES researchers, students, innovators and businesses to anchored by sectors such as maritime services, Priority queues will be implemented at all MRT stations, develop products and services of the future. energy and IT. The district will span 360ha, and will bus interchanges and integrated transport hubs for those also feature a tourism development comprising a with mobility needs. LTA will also start trials for priority hotel, attractions, eateries and shops. cabins on trains for one of the rail lines by next year. RED-AMBER-GREEN ARROWS Red-amber-green arrows will be installed at about 1,000 trafc junctions by 2023.

COVERED LINKWAYS An additional 150km of sheltered linkways will be built by 2040.

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