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Expanding Capacity for a Shorter Waiting Time
1. Come 2012, with the completion of the Jurong East Modification Project (JEMP), commuters will have a shorter wait for trains along the North-South and East-West Lines and a more comfortable ride during peak periods. JEMP is one of the broad range of initiatives announced under the Land Transport Review in January 2008 to promote public transport as a choice mode.
2. Currently, trains travelling to and from the Jurong East and Bukit Batok stations have to take turns arriving and departing from the shared middle platform at Jurong East station. This slows down the trains running through the Jurong East interchange station. JEMP, which entails adding a new track alignment and platform at the Jurong East interchange station for the North-South MRT Lines, will overcome this infrastructural constraint. As a result, trains can be put through Jurong East station at shorter intervals.
3. Concurrently, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will also add another 17 trains to the North-South and East-West Lines by end 2012 to take full advantage of the shorter train intervals through Jurong East made possible by JEMP.
4. With the completion of the JEMP and the purchase of additional trains, the carrying capacity of the North-South and East-West Lines will increase. SMRT would be able to run additional train trips, particularly during peak periods, to shorten waiting times and reduce crowding on trains.
5. Mr Yam Ah Mee, LTA Chief Executive said, "MRT ridership has increased significantly over the last decade. JEMP is a timely initiative to meet our travel needs. With JEMP and the additional trains, commuters can look forward to shorter waiting times and a more comfortable journey."
6. Commuters can expect a shorter waiting time of around two minutes at stretches that experience heavy loading during the peak within peak periods, compared to the current 2.5 to 4.5 minutes at some stretches of the North-South and East-West Lines today. JEMP and the additional trains will boost passenger carrying capacity by 15% to ensure a more comfortable ride.
7. Civil works for JEMP are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2009. Measures will be put in place to minimise disruption to commuters using the Jurong East Station as well as residents in the vicinity. For instance, the new 2.5 km viaduct will incorporate precast concrete beams that would be cast off-site.
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If people alight at the new platform. Then how to go to the platform to wait for the west bound train?
Must take escalator down from the new platform and take it up to the old platform? =.=" Leddat very troublesome leh!
If not.. wait at the new platfom, and walk passed the train at the old middle platform? like that is hell in rush hour leh.. People squeezing sia~
It'll be good if there is Labeling for train like NS-A to the new platform.. NS-B old middle(more convinient for the people who are taking West bound.)
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I am guessing both platforms (the current shared track) and the new platform will be utilised during peak hours. Treat it like any other existing terminus station like Pasir Ris.
I agree there will be a little problem happening say if a person transfers to another train during peak hours, because people will be wondering why there is a south-bound train at the new platform and possibly no train at the current middle platform for passengers transferring from west-bound train. Also, there is the problem of transfer westwards from the North South Line to Boon Lay (and Joo Koon) with the new platform, since many people work in Jurong.
During off-peak hours, the current middle platform will be used I believe. Let's see how this works out 4 years later.
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I'm also a bit confused by the design.
Ok, for example, if i transfer to northbound from westbound, which side should i alight? or this information will be displayed on the LCD before arriving at JE?
It should be also indicated which platform the train will use for southbound trian, Jurong East South (the old platform) or the Jurong East North (the new one), so that people transfering to westbound may wait for the train going towards the old platform
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I think the best they can do is: to add a platform and track next to the eastbound. then there will be 2 tracks where you can alight at both sides (the eastbound will also have a platform on both sides like the southbound). Then they should let trains terminate and depart from the old platform (middle platform) and the northbound train going towards pasir ris during peak of peak should arrive on the new track and platform (Platform C). then passengers going towards pasir ris has a own platform, they can take the train which is coming first ( the train coming from boon lay or the train coming from bukit batok). the passengers from bukit batok where the train terminates at jurong east and go back to marina bay can use platform A to transfer to the train towards Pasir Ris and people going towards Boon Lay can use platform B to transfer to the train towards Boon lay like now. If they do like this only people in the train from Ang Mo Kio towards Pasir Ris, who are going towards Boon Lay has to go to another platform. (they will alight at platform C and then they have to go to platform B)
I made a drawing with paint, but I can't put it here:( so if you want that drawing i can mail it to you if you want to understand
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