Bidadari residents will have to wait longer for a more direct route to Bartley Road and Serangoon Avenue 1. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Residents in Bidadari – a 10,000-unit Housing Board estate near Toa Payoh and Potong Pasir - will have to wait longer for a more direct route to Bartley Road and Serangoon Avenue 1.
Responding to The Straits Times’ request for an update, the HDB said Bartley Road has to be raised in stages because Bidadari Park Drive is more than 1m higher. Asked why it did not design the new road to be of the same elevation as an existing busy thoroughfare – to minimise disruption to traffic – HDB said one reason was that Bidadari Park Drive also connects to Bartley Walk, a small road fronting Maris Stella High School, which is located on high ground and “cannot be lowered”.
“Generally, we try not to touch an existing road,” a veteran engineer said. “Not just because it can be disruptive to traffic, it is also because an existing road has its own design elements to take into account factors like drainage, kerbs and other street infrastructure.But he acknowledged that there might be special reasons why a new road cannot be of a certain elevation.
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