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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS

Precast Units Used on Causeway Widening

ROAD LEVEL RAISED 2FT. 6IN.

SCHEME to widen and raise the A

level of the famous Johore Causeway linking Singapore Island with the Malayan mainland has re-

LAS Y BOWEL BARS AT

1-0

cc

TYPICAL

SCALE

Precast Z-units in place.

cently been completed at a cost of about M$600,000. Apart from the improvement in traffic flow, tourists and Malaysians crossing the cause-

CARRIAGEWAY

CRUDER RUN AS SPRE FES

+ MAI BAM COMMLI

Z POZNAT ME ANDIS COURAL

TESTIE BONĄ, WYRFACE,

CROSS SECTION.

Gaps are for special 4 ft. wide sections

way are now provided with an un- obstructed view of the Johore Straits.

The work took about seven months and was carried out by Singapore contractors, Building Construction Co., Ltd., to plans drawn up by the Singapore Public Works Department in joint consultation with the Johore

Causeway Control Committee.

Opened in 1923, the causeway is 3,465 ft. long and the average depth of water in which it is laid is 47 ft. at low tide, maximum depth being 77 ft. It is constructed entirely of granite blocks,

As well as a main road and a single-track railway, the causeway also accomodates the pipelines carry- ing Singapore's main water supplies.

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Johore Causeway as it was, with the old lock in the foreground

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Far East Architect & Builder March, 1965

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