There is a traffic jam at Telok Kurau Road in the direction of Marine Parade in the morning.
Telok Kurau Road is rather narrow. The vehicles are queuing up one after another. These are people going to work or sending their children to school. From Telok Kurau Road, one can get to Marine Parade Road and then onto East Coast Parkway toward the city. There are a couple of schools in East Coast and Marine Parade - St. Patrick, CHIJ Katong and Tao Nan.
Sometime the traffic jam can be quite bad. The queue can reach as far back as Lorong K and Lorong J. And all the other cars coming out from the side roads (for example: Lorong J, K, L, M and N) have difficulties too.
The Proposal
At the junction of Telok Kurau with East Coast Road, there are two lanes. One for going straight (to the direction of Marine Parade) or turning left (to the direction of Siglap). Another one for turing right (to the direction of Still Road)
It is proposed that Telok Kurau Road be widened at the junction with East Coast Road by adding a lane for turning left. So that it will ease the load on the exisiting one lane for turning left and going straight. This is especially useful when there are pedestrians crossing at East Coast Road and if the first vehicle is turing left, it got to wait and give way and hold up all the other vehicles behind.
There will be 3 lanes, one for turning left (new), one for going straight (only) and one for turning right (no change).
This proposal is being submitted to the Land Transport Authority (LTA).
Residents of Telok Kurau (and maybe Joo Chiat as well) are invited to add your comments in this blog.
your proposal for the left turn lane is pretty short. how many cars are you expecting to be able to wait in the left turn lane should there be pedestrians crossing?