Bukit Timah Railway Station open to public from Sept 16
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SINGAPORE: The old Bukit Timah Railway Station and surrounding railway land will be open to the public in two weeks.
Announcing this Friday, The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) said the station and railway land extending 1.4km southwards from the steel bridge along Bukit Timah Road will be open from September 16.
The SLA said other portions of the railway land will also be progressively open after removal works are completed.
Providing an update on the removal works Friday morning, Law Minister K Shanmugam said that about 30 per cent of the tracks have been dismantled.
Under the Points of Agreement with Malaysia, Singapore has to remove the tracks and ancillary structures of the KTM Railway by the end of this year.
Once the tracks are removed, the gravel is flattened and will be covered by grass.
Mr Shanmugam also reassured nature lovers that there was minimal clearance of vegetation and no trees were felled in that area.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority is studying the possibility of marrying development with greenery for the railway land by maintaining a continuous green link along the rail corridor without affecting the development potential.
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probably for a limited period only.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
probably for a limited period only.
There was a mtrg w/ BG Tan sometime 2 mths ago...The idea was to even keep that lone railway bridge near Hume Ave, together w/ the 2 steel bridges across Bt Timah
Hillview one may have to go