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Bukit Panjang is a suburban town in western Singapore. Before redevelopment, Kampong Bukit Panjang used to exist in the area. Initially, instead of using the original place name, Bukit Panjang, there were plans to open up the new town using the name, Zhenghua, [6] derived from Jalan Cheng Hwa that used to ply the area.
The 2006 redrawn boundaries carved out Bukit Panjang to form the current constituency and the GRC was renamed Holland–Bukit Timah GRC. In the 2020 Singapore general election , PAP's Liang defeated Singapore Democratic Party 's Paul Tambyah by a narrow margin of 2,509 votes and it was the closest result in a SMC for that election.
As it was decided that Tank Road station was unfit to be the terminus of the line, it was decided that the Bukit Timah-Tank Road section of the line would be abandoned, and the line would instead deviate in between Bukit Panjang station and Bukit Timah station, travelling down a different route which ran along the west of the main town, to a ...
[9] [10] [11] The LRT station opened along with the Bukit Panjang LRT line on 6 November 1999. [12] [13] [14] An LRT train had hit a switch beam at the Bukit Panjang station at about 5:40 pm on 29 August 2001, resulting in the power failure. As a result, 10,000 peak-hour commuters were stranded at the station the next morning for repair works ...
In order to make way for the development of the Bukit Panjang Integrated Transport Hub (ITH), the interchange was planned to be closed for two years from 16 December 2012 until 2015 when the new ITH would be ready, and buses were rerouted to a temporary bus park, with the exception of Services 177 & 180, which were amended to loop around Bukit ...
The Bukit Panjang LRT (abbreviation: BPLRT) is an 8-kilometre (5.0 mi) [2] automated guideway transit line in Bukit Panjang, Singapore. The BPLRT is currently the only Light Rail Transit (LRT) line operated by SMRT Trains . [ 5 ]
The extension was completed and opened on 21 January 1907. With the extension, the stations along the line were Woodlands, Bukit Panjang, Bukit Timah, Holland, Cluny, Newton, Tank Road, Borneo Wharf and Pasir Panjang. [6] People's Park and Mandai were later added as infill stations. [8] [9]
Bukit Panjang LRT Service C, which operates from Ten Mile Junction, was also suspended during that time. [1] On 30 December 2011, this station was reopened for revenue service, coinciding with the soft launch of the newly redeveloped Junction 10 shopping mall. Despite the mall's renovation, the old station's interior design was retained. [2]