SINGAPORE: Alpine Construction Co announced on September 10 that it had completed the first of six tunnels it is building for the Downtown Line metro line under a €400m contract.
Boring of the 6·6 m diameter tunnel between Tan Kah Kee and Sixth Avenue stations reached a rate of 93 m/week, which the Austrian company said was 'a considerable speed considering the difficult soil conditions.'
Alpine has five TBMs and employees from 17 countries working on the Downtown Line project.
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority announced the alignment and station locations for the future Thomson Line on August 29. The 30 km underground metro line is scheduled to be built in three phases for completion in 2021. The route runs north to south from Woodlands to Marina Bay, linking a corridor ...
SINGAPORE: Construction of the Tuas West Extension project was officially launched when Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future Tuas Link metro station on May 4. 'Over the next five years, there will be a new section of rail line opening ...
SINGAPORE: Two contracts have been awarded to Thales for signalling enhancements across the island’s metro network, where ridership increased from 1∙78 million passengers/day in 2009 to over 2 million in 2010. On February 1 SMRT signed a €118m contract with Thales covering the installation of SelTrac CBTC on the North ...
