Cultural Studies GENERAL ARTICLE Review Re-Imagining Urban Movement in Singapore: Vol. 25, No. 2 At the Intersection Between a Nature Reserve, December 2019 an Underground Railway and an Eco-Bridge Jamie Wang University of Sydney Corresponding author: Jamie Wang: School of Philosophy and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney,
[email protected] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i2.6213 Article history: Received 23/07/2018; Revised 21/10/2019; Accepted 25/10/19; Published © 2019 by the author(s). This 22/11/2019 is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Abstract (CC BY 4.0) License (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/ In 2013, the Singapore government announced a plan to build the Cross Island Line (CRL), by/4.0/), allowing third parties the country’s eighth Mass Rapid Transit train line. Since its release, the proposal has caused to copy and redistribute the material in any medium ongoing heated debate as it involves going underneath Singapore’s largest remaining reserve: or format and to remix, the Central Catchment Nature Reserve. Following extended discussions with environmental transform, and build upon the groups, the transport authority later stated that they would now consider two route options: a material for any purpose, even direct alignment running underneath the Central Reserve, and an alternative route that skirts commercially, provided the original work is properly cited the reserve boundary. The authority warned that the skirting option could increase the and states its license. construction cost significantly and cost commuters an extra few minutes of travel time.