New Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange
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What happened? still blank
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The news once reported that there is a change of development plan. The bus interchange will still be build but somethings like housing will be left out (if I remember correctly).Originally posted by disappear:What happened? still blank
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Has work started already?
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NO. Still a boarded up vacant land. When u take e MRT can c when e train stop by AMK station.
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I think that they are still planning. Besides, AMK Centre already have a lot of shops, if they build AMK Plaza, then the shops in AMK Centre will faced firece competition.Originally posted by disappear:Has work started already? -
if don't start anytime soon, might as well call the temporary interchange permanent
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I think start work liao. Last Saturday, I pass by and saw some excavators moving around.Originally posted by disappear:if don't start anytime soon, might as well call the temporary interchange permanent
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Now then start. Aren't it a bit too late? When will it finish?Originally posted by PJ_Quek:I think start work liao. Last Saturday, I pass by and saw some excavators moving around. -
Akan datang. Work should complete before 2008
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It was because of replanning... The commerical biulding will be gone. Bus Int and NTUC FairPrice will stay... But pte developers are still unhappy that it was directly given to NTUC w/o tenderOriginally posted by sbs&tibs:Now then start. Aren't it a bit too late? When will it finish? -
i think it would start work soon as a lot of ang mo kio residents are complaining about the slow work of the new interchange
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Because of dengueOriginally posted by alantanchunshyan:i think it would start work soon as a lot of ang mo kio residents are complaining about the slow work of the new interchange . -
AMK heartland makeover mess worries residents, shopkeepers
Apparently, work on AMK Int was delayed due to the state of the economy, as this report seems to suggest.
By Tor Ching Li, TODAY
SINGAPORE : Residents and shopkeepers in Ang Mo Kio are in two minds over the current upgrading works in the 23-year-old township.
While the heartland makeover has been much anticipated by those hoping for an exciting, newer township in the likeness of Toa Payoh or Marine Parade, there are also worries over whether there is any method to the "madness".
As part of the Housing Development Board's (HDB) estate renewal strategy for Ang Mo Kio launched in June 1996, there are now three separate upgrading programmes slated - the town centre upgrading, the lift upgrading programme (LUP) and the hawker centres upgrading programme (HUP).
Plans for the major redevelopment of the town centre - being handled by the Ang Mo Kio Town Council - had been mentioned as early as 2000, but work just started this May. Shopkeepers were told it has been scheduled for completion within the next two years.
According to Mr Lim Eng Leong, 65, an Ang Mo Kio resident for 24 years, voting on whether or not to proceed with the LUP was supposed to proceed in October. But there has been no news, he said.
An HDB spokesman told Today that "the LUP for Blocks 710, 714, 716, 725 and 729 along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6/8 are still in the design stage".
Once the design is finalised and endorsed by the working committee, residents will be asked to vote. The timeline for the upgrading is "about 2.5 years".
Residents are similarly concerned over the upgrading of the hawker centre, overseen by the National Environment Agency (NEA) as part of the HUP. The NEA said while the hawker centre at Block 724 "is eligible" for upgrading, the schedule and details "have not been decided yet".
"As the Ang Mo Kio town centre is undergoing upgrading and this hawker centre is located within the town centre, the NEA will work with the HDB, Town Council and the HUP working committee to work out an appropriate upgrading schedule for the hawker centre," said an NEA spokesman.
Remarked Mr Lim: "Why can't someone coordinate by bringing the three relevant authorities together and set a time frame to commence simultaneously, so that the residents and shopkeepers will not be hampered by the on-off construction work?"
Mr Goh Ang Jee, chairman of the Ang Mo Kio Constituency Merchants' Association, said association members have complained that business suffered a 30 to 40 per cent drop since construction work started in May and metal fences were put up in front of - and around - their shops.
Mr Leong San Cheng, the owner of the famous Tip Top curry puff stall at Hiap Hwa Eating House at Block 722, said: "Fewer people sit down to eat because of the dust."
Mr Goh, who owns a furniture and renovation store at Block 728, griped: "My own business has dropped by half."
But on whether all the upgrading works should be done simultaneously, Mr Goh said: "Now it's very messy and there are more mosquitoes as water collected in the holes turns to breeding grounds Â… If the town and hawker centres were to be upgraded together, that would be total chaos!"
The original plan in August 2001 was to develop a mega-complex - featuring a 31-storey condominium, a 21-storey office building and an NTUC hypermarket - at the 2.57ha plot of land opposite the MRT station to be completed by 2006.
This was put on hold by the Singapore Labour Foundation, in charge of building on the plot of land, due to "changing economic conditions".
Now, $325 million has been set aside for the whole redevelopment project, which will include a three-storey shopping centre on a 1.93ha plot instead and a bus interchange linked to the MRT station.
Mr Seng Han Thong, MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC, promised residents earlier that the new mall would be ready in the first half of 2007. - TODAY -
still blank. Chinese New Year already. They really want to wait until Christmas?
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It has already been reported in the news over the past week that the new development would be a downsized version of the original plan. NTUC has announced that it will set up it's first hypermart there, and the same building will also house a couple of other NTUC's branch businesses. The housing and office segments have been removed due to lack of demand.