Those living and working nearby the construction sites of the North-South Corridor have been resigned to jams and noise, but look forward to its completion.
The $79.6 million road resurfacing project started three years ago on major expressways, and will be completed by the end of next year.
The northbound stretch of Lornie Highway will be opened on 19 April, after repeated delays following the southbound opening in October last year.
Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co has been awarded a $615.9 million contract for the North-South Corridor, a new 21.5km expressway.
The new Lornie Highway was greeted on its first working morning yesterday with heavy and slow traffic, some attribute it to lack of road familiarity.
The southbound section of the road, which runs parallel to Lornie Road, facilitates traffic flow from Thomson towards the Pan-Island Expressway.
After repeated delays, the first phase of Lornie Highway, the southbound section running parallel to Lornie Road, will open on 28 October.
Motorists will have to bear with the ongoing construction along Lornie Road - one of the busiest roads here - for a couple more months.
An additional two civil contracts, worth $1.16 billion, have been awarded for the construction of the North-South Corridor.
A new vehicular underpass, which will seamlessly connect motorists from the KPE to the Nicoll Highway will open on the 2nd of April.
The Land Transport Authority is holding off the opening of a new road until it can determine a window of time that would cause the least confusion.
The Land Transport Authority will build an underpass that allows a seamless drive from the KPE to Nicoll Highway, bypassing traffic junction.
The LTA announced that several slip roads along the stretch of tunnels on the Central Expressway will be closed later this month to facilitate maintenance.
New flyovers in the Seletar area will be opened this Saturday, 28th november, to help ease the jams at Lentor Avenue.
The Land Transport Authority has announced that motorists will be allowed to use a bus lane on a section of TPE to improve traffic flow to Sengkang, Punggol.
As the macro environment has changed significantly since 2008, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has revealed an updated Land Transport Masterplan.
A special permit obtained from LTA now allows heavy vehicles to use the highways when travelling to work sites in Tampines.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong graced the opening ceremony of the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE), Southeast Asia's longest underground expressway today.