YISHUN NEW TOWN BUS INTERCHANGE (Completion date)

Dr Koh Lip Lin asked the Minister for National Development when is the scheduled completion date of Yishun New Town Bus Interchange.

Mr Dhanabalan: Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Yishun New Town bus interchange, bounded by Yishun Central and Yishun Avenue 2, is scheduled to be completed by end of July 1987.

Currently, there is a temporary interchange along Yishun Central.

Dr Koh Lip Lin: Sir, can the Minister give an assurance that the new bus interchange at Yishun New Town will not suffer from the same fate as the Yishun North Area Office, ie, there will be a long delay after its completion?

Mr Dhanabalan: Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, the original completion date was supposed to have been April. There is a delay of about two months but this is not due to any decision to upgrade the interchange. It is just due to some delay in getting sanitary approval from the Sewerage Department. As far as I am aware, there is no decision to suddenly upgrade our bus interchanges to a very much higher standard than what they are today.