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On 4 October 2023, it was announced that Marymount Flyover will be temporarily closed for construction works for the North-South Corridor starting 8 October 2023 until 2029. [33] During the construction, noise complaints were received by the LTA that construction works did not adhere to requirements to cease after 10pm and during weekends.
The latest expressway completed is the 5 km Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE), which links the East Coast Parkway and Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway to Marina South and Ayer Rajah Expressway and includes Singapore's first undersea tunnel. Construction started in 2008 and the expressway opened to traffic 29 December 2013.
Major strikes are a rare occurrence in Singapore; only two major strikes were observed in recent decades, once by shipyard workers in 1986 that was sanctioned by then NTUC secretary-general Ong Teng Cheong, and the November 2012 wildcat strike by SMRT Corporation's bus drivers.
A separate project was planned to even extend the expressway to Keppel Road, before going towards the Jurong Expressway (to be known as Ayer Rajah Expressway). On 24 April 1975, five international firms were invited to the tender of the construction of East Coast Parkway, leading to the construction of Benjamin Sheares Bridge , named after the ...
The highway also has a few traffic light junctions, something that expressways do not have. The at-grade section of the highway is a three-lane dual carriageway, and the viaduct is a two-lane dual carriageway with a 1-metre hard shoulder. At a length of 5 km, the viaduct is the longest in Singapore. [1]
It’s been more than 20 years since there was a major construction worker strike in southeastern Wisconsin, but for the last six days dozens of projects have been on pause.
There are plans to build a second causeway to link the Western end of Jurong Island Highway and Gul Road in Jurong Industrial Estate, Mainland Singapore but the plan was put on hold due to the possibility that the causeway might affect the passage of ships to the shipyards in the Southern part of Jurong Industrial Area.
There were 1.1 million foreigners on work permits in Singapore who earned less than S$3,000 ($2,300) per month as at December 2023, including 286,300 domestic workers and 441,100 workers in the ...