Singapore’s most expensive expressway the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE), will open to motorists on Dec. 29, at 9am.
It’s five kilometres long, with five lanes in both directions and a section that goes right into the sea, connecting the eastern Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) and the East Coast Parkway (ECP) to the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) in the west.
This will see the conversion of the ECP stretch west of the Benjamin Sheares bridge into a major arterial road and the removal of the stretch after Central Boulevard for more land space.
Additionally, a new arterial road, Sheares Avenue, will serve as a connection to the Marina and Central boulevards and garner traffic from the ECP directly into the the business district.
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has also announced that a temporary road network in Marina South will be set up to facilitate the conversion of the ECP into an arterial road.
The temporary road network is expected to run until the third-quarter of 2014, when the ECP stretch in Marina South is removed and the roads along the Central and Marina boulevards are improved.
Photo: LTA’s Facebook
