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SINGAPORE: Keppel, Cantonment and Prince Edward Road MRT stations opened for a public preview on Saturday (Jul 4), marking the completion of the Circle Line more than 30 years after the project was first conceived.<\/p>\n
The three stations are open to the public until 9pm on Saturday, with free travel between them. Passenger service will start on Jul 12.<\/p>\n
The completed Circle Line spans 39km across 33 stations, with 12 interchange stations connecting commuters to all existing MRT lines, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said.<\/p>\n
At the opening ceremony for the sixth and last stage of the Circle Line, Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow said the project had passed through the hands of many engineers, project managers, contractors and workers.<\/p>\n
Mr Siow, who was in the Ministry of Transport in 2013 when the decision to build Circle Line Stage 6 was announced, said he was \u201cincredibly grateful\u201d to be opening the stations to the public 13 years later.<\/p>\n
Although Stage 6 was part of the Circle Line’s original design years earlier, construction could not begin until the land became available, he said. This included the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station and its tracks, which were returned to Singapore only in 2011, and the port terminals in the city, once plans were firmed up to relocate them to Tuas.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally today,<\/strong> people can stop asking LTA why the Circle Line is not a circle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr Siow said the three new stations will give residents in the area direct access to the MRT, and more than 10,000 commuters are expected to benefit from shorter train rides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Keppel, Cantonment and Prince Edward Road MRT stations opened for a public preview on Saturday (Jul 4), marking the completion of the Circle Line…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--oS4RXNzC--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/06\/10\/20260609_ili_cantonment_station_-1.jpg?itok=fmMmPGTk","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2565,22685,700,2245,210,3103,3613,1594,697,59],"class_list":["post-66004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-circle","tag-completing","tag-line","tag-making","tag-mrt","tag-open","tag-preview","tag-public","tag-stations","tag-years","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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