EAST COAST PARKWAY (Speed limit)

Mr Rohan bin Kamis asked the Minister for Communications and Minister for Labour when the revised speed limit will be implemented along the recently completed East Coast Parkway.

Mr Ong Teng Cheong: Mr Speaker, Sir, the speed limit for the East Coast Parkway and the two major stretches of the Pan Island Expressway will be raised from 70 km per hour to 80 km per hour with effect from 3 1st December, 1981.

For the Pan Island Expressway, the 80 km per hour limit will apply from its interchange at East Coast Parkway up to its interchange at Jalan Eunos and from its interchange at Mount Pleasant Road to its intersection with Corporation Road.