New road to ease travel between Punggol and Pasir Ris towns

A new road linking Punggol and Pasir Ris will allow residents to travel directly between the two towns, doing away with the need to go onto Tampines Expressway (TPE), reported The Straits Times. It will link Punggol Central to Pasir Ris Industrial Drive 1, and allow motorists to connect to Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) directly.

The project, whose completion date was not given, was announced on Saturday (March 26^th) by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, an MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC.

"There are quite a number of residents who commute between the two (towns). This will allow residents to travel to the two towns quickly and seamlessly without going onto the TPE," said Mr. Teo, who is also Coordinating Minister for National Security.

A new one km temporary slip road that connects motorists in Punggol directly to the KPE was also officially opened. The slip road, which goes over Sungei Serangoon, is expected to ease peak-hour traffic jams along the expressway entrances at Punggol Road and Punggol Way, which motorists had to use previously to go onto the TPE, so they could link to the KPE. It is an interim measure before a project to expand the KPE/TPE interchange is completed in the third quarter of 2019.