way itself. There will be left turn slip vehicles over the ramp as the express- roads at ground level as well.
Flyovers will be constructed where- ver necessary along the expressway at limited access points enabling traffic to change direction without interrup tion. At the Thomson Road/Whitley Road end of Jalan Toa Payoh, an- other flyover is being built at a cost of about $$3.2 million to avoid any traffic dislocation at this busy inter- section. Due for completion within the next few months, it will carry traffic to and from Toa Payoh and other
way is extended westward.
From this flyover at Thomson Road, the expressway will next sweep westward by an entirely new road route running parallel with Dunearn Road. It will cross over Bukit Timah Road and on into Jurong Road which will have a second three-lane carriage- way added to it.
The PWD has already surveyed a route about five miles long for the Thomson Road-Bukit Timah Road section of the expressway. The esti-
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mated cost of this stretch, including land, is S$18 million. It is hoped to start work on it this year and to finish it up to Bukit Timah Road by
mid-1972.
The expressway is likely to follow the line of Whitley Road for a short distance before cutting a new route passing over Adam Road, continuing roughly along the line of Sime Road and moving north of the Singapore Turf Club before turning into Bukit Timah Road. In tapping off a lot of traffic from Bukit Timah and Dunearn Roads, the expressway will facilitate the flow of traffic along these routes as well.
Land for development
In hand with the reduction in travel time will go substantial savings in vehicle operating costs, likely to more than offset the heavy expendi- ture involved in the expressway over this sector. There is also the possibility of opening up new land for develop- ment along the expressway besides the likely appreciation of land values there.
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Towards the Jurong side, the old narrow, winding Jurong Road has already been realigned and widened to handle the increase in vehicles moving to and from the rapidly-growing Jurong industrial complex. Even with only half of the dual three-lane carriageway required to raise it to expressway standard, vehicles can already cover the five mile long stretch from Bukit Batok to Jalan Boon Lay the principal northern access into Jurong New Town in half the time
taken before.
Construction of the second car- riageway will probably get underway as the Thomson Road/Bukit Timah section nears completion around 1972.
Eastward from Jalan Toa Payoh at
its confluence with Woodsville Circus
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now a light controlled junction
two further sections of the expressway are being built to take it through to Paya Lebar. In one stage, it is being extended from Woodsville Circus through Jalan Kolam Ayer across newly reclaimed land at Kallang Basin skirting the new industrial estate springing up there over to Aljunied Road. There it will join up with the new MacPherson Road South section of the expressway being constructed parallel to MacPherson Road and Aljunied Road.
Though there are some squatter problems along both stretches, it is hoped to have the expressway through to Paya Lebar by late next year.
Far East BUILDER, October 1969
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