The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is pleased to announce that it will be building the 4th and 5th Stages of Circle Line (CCL). These two stages will extend the CCL by another 17 kilometres and will stretch from Marymount Road to HarbourFront Centre.

There will be 13 stations at the following locations (click on each working name to view the station location):

The stations have been labelled with their working names (The working names are not the official names for the stations) for easy reference.

LTA will first build ten out of the 13 stations for CCL 4 & 5. They are generally located within developments such as HDB town centres, commercial hubs and locations that allow for integration with other rail lines. For example, the station at Buona Vista will be a major interchange station where commuters will be able to transfer from CCL to the East-West Line. The station near Ayer Rajah Avenue will be the gateway to the exciting one-north development currently being planned by JTC Corporation. The station at Holland Road will serve the lively commercial and retail hub at the heart of Holland Village.

The three stations at Toa Payoh Rise, Jalan Mashor and West Coast Highway are earmarked as future stations. The areas around these three designated sites are not fully developed at the moment. These stations will therefore be built as and when developments around these stations take place. However, structural provisions will be made now so as to enable easy construction of the stations when they are finally built.

Like Stages 1, 2 and 3, all the stations of CCL Stages 4 & 5 will be underground. This is to minimise the impact on the environment and free up surface land for other use. No private land will be acquired for the construction of Stages 4 & 5.

Stages 4 and 5 of CCL will cost about $2.5 billion to build. Construction is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2004, and is targeted to be completed in 2010

The CCL is an orbital line linking all radial Rapid Transit System (RTS) lines running into the city. It will run from Dhoby Ghaut in Orchard Road, and will pass through the civic district, some of the busiest corridors in the city, residential towns, industrial developments and R&D institutes before terminating at the HarbourFront station at the southern tip of Singapore. When completed by 2010, the 33-km long CCL with 29 stations (Three of the stations will be built later) will provide greater connectivity and convenience to public transport commuters.

The CCL will have interchange stations with the North South, East West and North East lines at Dhoby Ghaut, Paya Lebar, Serangoon, Bishan, Buona Vista and HarbourFront. It will offer inter-suburban linkages not provided by the current MRT system. Commuters going to other parts of Singapore will be able to bypass the city centre, thus cutting down on travel time.

For example, a journey on the MRT from Bishan to Buona Vista now takes about 34 minutes (excluding waiting time), as the commuters travel on the North South Line to City Hall and transfer onto the East West Line. With the Circle Line, it will only take 19 minutes for commuters to travel from Bishan to Buona Vista without the need to make a transfer.

The CCL is being built in stages and construction of the first three stages is ongoing. CCL Stages 1 & 2 are expected to be completed by 2007; Stage 3 by 2008, and Stages 4 and 5 by 2010. The whole CCL will cost about $6.66 billion.

For more information on the CCL, members of the public can call the Land Transport Authority at 1800-CALL LTA (1800 2255 582).