SHELTERS LINKING HDB FLATS WITH BUS STOPS/TAXI STANDS/MRT STATIONS

Mr Cheo Chai Chen asked the Minister for Communications if he will state (a) the number of units, to date, of shelters linking HDB flats to bus stops/taxi stands/MRT stations which have been constructed and under construction and the total cost of these constructions; (b) the number of such units constructed and under construction in the four opposition wards; and (c) the number of such units constructed and under construction in Sembawang GRC and Nee Soon South Constituency.

Mr Mah Bow Tan: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) builds covered linkways between various public transport facilities like bus shelters, taxi-shelters, MRT stations and bus interchanges. As a rule, it does not build linkways to connect HDB blocks to such facilities. The provision of such linkways are undertaken by Town Councils. There have been only 5 cases in Queenstown, Braddell, Khatib, Jurong East and Outram Park where links from a HDB block to MRT stations were built by LTA and its predecessors because these blocks were very close to the road reserve and the stations.