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Gul Circle MRT Station
Gul Circle MRT station ( or ) is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West Line (EWL). Located in Tuas, western Singapore, the station serves the surrounding industries of JTC Space @ Tuas and Mapletree Pioneer Logistic Hub. The station is operated by SMRT Trains. First announced in 2011 as Tuas MRT station, it was constructed as part of the Tuas West Extension (TWE). The station began operations on 18 June 2017. At the height of , the station is the tallest elevated station in Singapore. The station has a stacked island platform arrangement with provisions for an MRT extension to Tuas South, making it the first elevated station in Singapore to have such a configuration. History An extension to Tuas from Joo Koon station was first announced in January 2008 by transport minister Raymond Lim to improve public transport access to Tuas and the Jurong Industrial Estate. The station was eventually announced as Tuas station on 11 January 2011, to be con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
The Mass Rapid Transit system, locally known by the Acronym, initialism MRT, is a rapid transit system in Singapore and the island country's principal mode of Rail transport in Singapore, railway transportation. After two decades of planning the system commenced operations in November 1987 with an initial stretch consisting of five stations. The network has since grown to span the length and breadth of the country's Singapore Island, main island – with the exception of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, forested core and the rural Lim Chu Kang, northwestern region – in accordance with Singapore's aim of developing a comprehensive rail network as the backbone of the country's Transport in Singapore, public transportation system,Singapore's heavy rail network is composed of three distinct systems. Two of the three are rapid transit networks, chiefly a) the MRT system, which falls entirely within the city-state and forms the core of the network, and b) the two-station cross- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuas Link MRT Station
Tuas Link MRT station is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station in western Singapore. Located in Tuas along Tuas West Drive, it is located close to Tuas Depot and Tuas Checkpoint. The station is the terminus of the east–West MRT line, East–West line (EWL) and the westernmost station in Singapore. First announced in 2011 as part of the Tuas West Extension (TWE), the station began operations on 18 June 2017. The station is operated by SMRT Trains. It is the only elevated station in Singapore to feature a concourse above the platforms, due to space constraints at the ground level. History An extension to Tuas from Joo Koon MRT station, Joo Koon station was first announced in January 2008 by transport minister Raymond Lim to improve public transport access to Tuas and the Jurong Industrial Estate. The station, first announced on 11 January 2011, would be constructed as part of the Tuas West Extension (TWE) of the East West MRT line, East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Island MRT Line
The Cross Island Line (CRL) is a high capacity Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line under development in Singapore. It will run in an east–west direction from Changi to Jurong Industrial Estate via Loyang, Pasir Ris, Loyang, Pasir Ris, Hougang, Serangoon North, Ang Mo Kio, Sin Ming, Bukit Timah, Clementi, Singapore, Clementi and West Coast, Clementi, West Coast. From Pasir Ris, the line will branch off to Punggol. The line will replace the East–West MRT line, East–West Line as the longest line on the MRT network upon its complete opening by the 2040s, serving about 27 stations. Plans for the line were first announced in 2013. The CRL is envisioned to serve various key hubs including the Jurong Lake District and the Punggol Digital District, offering an alternative east–west connection to alleviate passenger load on the East–West MRT line, East–West Line. Shortly after the announcement, calls were made by some nature groups to divert the line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Land Authority
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law of the Government of Singapore. SLA optimises land resources for Singapore's social and economic development. History The SLA was formed on 1 June 2001 when the Land Office, Singapore Land Registry, Survey Department and Land Systems Support Unit were merged. Role With the vision of 'Limited Land, Unlimited Space', SLA is responsible for maximising Singapore's land resources, by: * Optimising land and space utilisation, * Safeguarding property ownership, and * Promoting the use of land-space data through geospatial. SLA has two functional roles: developmental and regulatory. * Developmental: SLA oversees the management of 11,000 hectares of state land and 2,700 state properties. SLA is also responsible for land sales, leasing, land acquisitions and allocation, developing and marketing land-related information and maintaining the national land information database. * Regulatory: SLA is the natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gul Circle
Gul Circle (or Gul) is an area in Jurong Industrial Estate which is the biggest industrial estate in Singapore. Gul is the home to many heavy industries in Singapore. It is bounded by Ayer Rajah Expressway (Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim), Benoi Road, Pioneer Road and Tuas Road. Tuas Fire Station is located at Gul as well. The area is known as ''Tanjong Gul'' in the old maps of Singapore. Transport Gul is served by SBS Transit SBS Transit Ltd (abbreviation: SBS or SBST) is a multi-modal public transport operator in Singapore operating bus and rail services. With a majority of its shares owned by Singaporean multinational transport conglomerate ComfortDelGro Corporati ... industrial service 255 which links Gul to Joo Koon Bus Interchange and Joo Koon MRT station except Gul Road which is located in Pioneer Sector is served by industrial service 257 which also goes to Joo Koon Bus Interchange. The below bus services run on the roads that form the boundary of Gul: 254 and 257 ply Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayer Rajah Expressway
The Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) extends from the western end of the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE) in the south of Singapore to Tuas in the west near the Tuas Second Link to Malaysia. Together with the MCE and the East Coast Parkway (ECP), it forms a second east-west link to complement the role played by the Pan Island Expressway (PIE). History Construction on the expressway commenced in 1983, with the first two phases completed by 1988. This section involved the widening of several existing roads along the way, such as Ayer Rajah Road and Upper Ayer Rajah Road, as well as the construction of what was then the longest road viaduct, the Keppel Viaduct, from where the eastern end of the expressway commences. The road extends from Alexandra Road until Keppel Road. It ends at Teban Flyover along Jurong Town Hall Road. With the construction beginning from 5 December 1993, the existing Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim from Tuas West Drive to Jurong Town Hall Road was widened and merged i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuas Crescent MRT Station
Tuas Crescent MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station along the East–West line in Tuas, Singapore. This station is named after a road in the vicinity. History It was first announced on 11 January 2011 by then-Transport Minister Raymond Lim in a speech while visiting Bedok Bedok ( ) is a Planning areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential town located in the geographical region of Tanah Merah, Singapore, Tanah Merah along the south-eastern coast of the East Region, Singapore, East R ... when new platform screen doors opened there. It was expected to be completed by 2016 and would benefit an estimated 100,000 commuters daily. According to Lianhe Zaobao, this station and the tracks linking it are built in the middle of a vehicular viaduct, a historical first for Singapore train services. It has the longest staircase in all stations with 105 steps, and the longest escalator of 17.5m in Singapore's rail network. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today (Singapore Newspaper)
''Today'' was a Singapore, Singaporean digital news magazine published by Mediacorp. It was originally established on 10 November 2000 as a free newspaper, free print newspaper, competing primarily with Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) ''Streats''. In 2004, SPH announced an agreement to take stakes in Mediacorp's publishing and television businesses, resulting in the discontinuation of ''Streats'' and the sale of its two SPH MediaWorks channels to the company. In 2017, ''Today'' ended print publication, continuing as a digital publication. In October 2024, ''Today'' was merged into CNA (TV network), CNA, becoming a weekly digital news magazine devoted to long-form journalism. History ''Today'' launched on 10 November 2000; it was established as a rival to ''Streats'', another English-language freesheet published by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). Initially, the newspaper was available only on weekdays. It was a partnership between MediaCorp, Singtel, and SMRT Corporation, SM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediacorp
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is the state media, state-owned media conglomerate of Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. It is headquartered at the Mediapolis development in Queenstown's One-north precinct, which succeeded Caldecott Hill, the long-time home of its predecessors, in 2015. As of 2022, Mediacorp employs over 3,000 employees; a large number of them are in both public and private sector broadcasting. The company forms half of the Mass media in Singapore, mass media duopoly in the country alongside SPH Media Trust; the company was established in its current form in 1999, following the 1994 privatization of one of its predecessors—the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)—as a group of state-owned enterprises known as Singapore International Media. Mediacorp holds a monopoly on terrestrial television in Singapore, operating six channels broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNA (TV Network)
CNA (an initialism of Channel NewsAsia) is a Singapore-based multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate. The network is broadcast in Singapore on free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ... terrestrial television and Mediacorp's streaming service meWatch, and is distributed internationally via television providers in the Asia–Pacific, as well as Live streaming, streaming and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platforms. The network has been positioned as an alternative to Western-based international media in presenting news from "an Asian perspective." Alongside its main focus as an English language, English-language news television channel, CNA also produces news and current affairs content in Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Transport (Singapore)
The Ministry of Transport (MOT; ; zh, 交通部; ) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for the administration and regulation of land, sea and air transportation in Singapore. History The Ministry of Transport was formed on 23 November 2001 out of the then Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Its previous portfolio of information technology and telecommunications were then transferred to the then Ministry of Information, Communications and The Arts, now known as the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. Organisational structure Currently, the ministry commissions and regulates four individual government statutory boards: the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Public Transport Council (PTC), which implement the ministry’s policies and tactical directions. The Ministry has ten divisions with staff strength of nearly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
