N109A - Teck Ghee update March 2024

 

21 March 2024 - An aerial view of the main station area, where Exits 1 and 4 will be located.

Life kind of caught up to us in Q1, so similar to Tampines North and Pasir Ris East, we only managed to catch Teck Ghee in March 2024. Contract N109A is primarily for the construction of the North South Expressway (NSE) tunnels with the Cross Island Line (CRL) Teck Ghee station added on beneath. As such, the impact at the work site is much greater than that at other station sites due to the cut & cover nature of the expressway's construction.

CR203 - Contract for Turf City station awarded

One of the station's exits.
Image: LTA

 Today, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced the award of contract CR203 for the design & construction of Turf City station and associated tunnels connecting to King Albert Park station. The contract was won by a joint venture between Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co (STEC) & Obayashi Corporation. The joint venture had also previously won adjacent contract CR202 for the construction of a large diameter, single bored tunnel underneath the Central Catchment Nature Reserve that connects Turf City station to Bright Hill station under phase 1 of the line.

CR105 - An update from Q1 2024

 

13 March 2024 - A photo of the Minister of Transport, Mr. Chee Hong Tat, with LTA's senior
management as the ceremony for the launch of TBM Izanami.
Source: CREG

Thus far, the Cross Island Line (CRL)'s worksite have all been about creating big holes in the ground. It's been rather similar across the different sites - hardly the interesting stuff of the Jurong Region Line (JRL) where you can see the viaducts coming nearer and nearer to you with each visit. This time, though, we're in for a different kind of update on the CRL. Hopefully one that would be of more interest. Word has been rather mum when it comes to tunneling work along the line. Has it begun yet? Has it not? Not a peep from client Land Transport Authority (LTA). But we've come across some photos of late that suggest, perhaps, maybe, tunneling works might have begun quietly over at Changi.

CR107 - Pasir Ris East update Q1 2024

 

24 March 2024 - An aerial view of the worksite near the junction of Pasir Ris Drive2 1 & 2 with
Street 12.

First of all, unfortunately we only managed to drop by the site towards the end of Q1, so there are somewhat fewer images in this update. However, works thus far have mostly been relegated to diaphragm wall construction for the most part and are hardly the most exciting of works. Perhaps it is not such a bad thing to have visited only once over the past quarter. Nonetheless, we'll do our best to break down how things are progressing over at the site.

CR108 - Pasir Ris update Q1 2024

 

24 March 2024 - A view westwards from the cut & cover tunnel section east of the main station
box.

The first quarter of the year has seen quite a fair bit of activity at the construction site of Pasir Ris Cross Island Line (CRL) station. Within the first three months, the alignment of Pasir Ris Drive 1 was shifted closer to Costa Ris BTO precinct, the junction of Pasir Ris Drive 1 with Pasir Ris Central & Street 51 was reconfigured and diaphragm wall works outside block 571 saw a road diversion enacted.