Singapore and Malaysia have accepted a Letter of Offer and taken a step closer to building the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link.
Some SMRT staff in the building and facilities department have owned up to lapses in their work after the company offered them 'amnesty'.
Investigative work has begun to put in place measures to minimise environmental impact from building the Cross Island Line under a nature reserve.
Many challenges were faced in the construction of Downtown Line, including digging a tunnel less than a metre away from an existing MRT line.