$130 million Woodsville junction, did traffic improve??

[Wind30]

for those woodsville junction users at bendermeer, macpherson, upper serangoon road, give your opinons!!!

 

then we can send the results to LTA and put on facebook :)

Edited March 13, 2013 by Wind30

[Wind30]

I used to use that junction almost everyday in my previous job.

 

After seeing the construction for 3 years, it is finally done but I changed jobs already.

 

So was it all worth it???

 

personally I voted for a bit of improvement but not worth the money.

 

They spent so much money digging tunnels to connect the upper serangoon, macpherson and bendermeer roads but the bulk of the traffic is actually coming to/from the PIE/CTE entrances and exits.

 

Should have built some flyovers for these entrances/exits rather than the tunnels... now the ground level traffic junction is so complicated and slow.... dunno whether is an upgrade or a 130million downgrade.

[Samuelftw]

Personally I stay at St.Barnabas Lane which is one of the minor road along Serangoon Road(Opp Bend Pri), I did see a great improvement from two years ago whereby bump to bumper jam was a common sight during weekday evening peak. But now, seldom experience any jams.

 

However, $130M ? Might be too much ...

[Vhtfhwlego]

The Traffic congestion certainly improves but when you are asking whether it is worth the cost, I would say 100% worth it.

Even it cost 10times more it's worthy of the price tag.

 

Because, it's time for the LTA to give something back to us.

Don't use it, it will not rebate to us in anyway.

[Mustank]

You prefer ah gong use our marnie to improve infrastructure or use our marnie to buy angmo bank?

[Blackyv]

Definitely much better spent than youth olympic...

[Cklasse]

what is $130m? the COE money collected can easily pay for this.

[Mightymito]

The comparison should be between today and five years ago and not two to three years ago. Because it was started five years ago. The major works were widening of the flyover and the tunnel. To me the tunnel seems to be a lot of money for just one lane which you can still bypass on the same old road and get to bendemeer.

 

AND its still not completed as the contract also involves the reconstruction of the food centre. I doubt the old tenants would come back after so long.

 

 

[Lionflyer]

I am staying in the area. I think there is definitely improvements in the stretch from Upper Serangoon Road to town (Boon Keng) using the tunnel.

 

But I am disappointed with the direction from Toa Payoh down to Macpherson. They built an ramp for cars to get on the exit to Changi but few cars actually use it, but most importantly, the entire exit from Toa Payoh remained a 3 merged into 2 lanes. Always get jammed there when I take bus (I don't drive now). It's tough because they are bracketed by St Andrews on the side but I had hope that they could have expanded into 3 full lanes (1 bus lane, 2 normal lanes)

[Dtan2626]

I am staying in the area. I think there is definitely improvements in the stretch from Upper Serangoon Road to town (Boon Keng) using the tunnel.

 

But I am disappointed with the direction from Toa Payoh down to Macpherson. They built an ramp for cars to get on the exit to Changi but few cars actually use it, but most importantly, the entire exit from Toa Payoh remained a 3 merged into 2 lanes. Always get jammed there when I take bus (I don't drive now). It's tough because they are bracketed by St Andrews on the side but I had hope that they could have expanded into 3 full lanes (1 bus lane, 2 normal lanes)

 

 

I also stay this area, agree of wat u say on the st andrew part. Other than tat it does ease the traffic a bit.

[Jamesc]

AND its still not completed as the contract also involves the reconstruction of the food centre. I doubt the old tenants would come back after so long.

Damn, that food centre had very good food!

 

[Roadie]

I used to stay at Whampoa south. There is a definitely a big improvement in the traffic flow.