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After Singapore's independence in 1965, the government adopted new road-naming policies as part of its nation-building effort. [11] A Street Naming Advisory Committee was appointed in February 1967 by the Minister of Finance, [12] and priority was given to local names and Malay names, while names of prominent figures and British places and people were discouraged. [11]
Orchard Road, Penang Road, Clemenceau Avenue, Oxley Flyover, River Valley Road, Singapore River, Merchant Road, Havelock Road, Chin Swee Road Fort Canning Tunnel: Fort Canning Link Canning Rise, Fort Canning Road Kampong Java Tunnel: Central Expressway (CTE) Bukit Timah Road, Cavenagh Road KPE Tunnel Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE)
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
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Tanglin Mall on Tanglin Road. Tanglin (locally /ˈtʌŋlɪn, ˈtɑːŋ-/ TUNG-lin) is a planning area located within the Central Region of Singapore. Tanglin is located west of Newton, Orchard, River Valley and Singapore River, south of Novena, east of Bukit Timah, northeast of Queenstown and north of Bukit Merah.
The full county council meets weekly on Thursdays, except for the fifth Thursday in a month. Public comments are permitted at the fourth meeting of the month. Meetings are held in the County Council chambers, Room 1001, on the tenth floor of the King County Courthouse in Downtown Seattle.
Bencoolen Street is a street in Central, Singapore, that starts at the junction of Rochor Road, Rochor Canal Road and Jalan Besar and ends at the junction of Fort Canning Road, Stamford Road and Orchard Road. The street houses several landmarks, including Sim Lim Square, Bencoolen Mosque and Albert Complex.
Kal alei, meaning "stone crusher", is the name given by the Tamils to River Valley Road, from the steam crusher which was once kept at the corner of Tank Road and River Valley Road. The Chinese have two other interpretations — ong ke sua kha in Hokkien , meaning "foot of Fort Canning Hill", or leng thau che , meaning " dragon 's head well ...