East Coast 4-in-1 bus and rail depot saved taxpayers $2 billion: Khaw Boon Wan
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Zhaki Abdullah
SINGAPORE - The East Coast Integrated Depot, incorporating three MRT depots as well as one for buses, helped saved $2 billion in taxpayer dollars, said Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan on Friday (Feb 23).
In a Facebook post, he said the cost of construction of the depot is about $3.2 billion, 40 per cent less than what it would have cost had the four depots been built separately.
He also noted that building the depots separately would have used up an additional 44ha of land, twice the land size of Changi Airport's Terminal 4.
The depot, scheduled to be completed in 2024, will include depots for the East-West and Downtown MRT lines, as well as the upcoming Thomson-East Coast Line.
The train depot complex will comprise three levels, with the Downtown Line depot located underground, the Thomson-East Coast Line depot at ground level, and the depot for the East-West Line above that.
The three train depots have been designed to operate independently of one another, said a spokesman for the Land Transport Authority (LTA).
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Oops somebody open his mouth . Then why transportation still have the 2nd highest budget expenditure ?