SINGAPORE - Barriers will be installed along MRT tracks in nine more locations where noise levels exceed the National Environment Agency's current noise criterion of 67 decibels averaged over an hour.
The locations of the 3.5km-long noise barriers are as follows:
1. From the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) to Simei Street 1
2. From Bedok Park Connector to Bedok Road
3. From Siglap Park Connector to Lorong Mydin
4. From Eunos Road 2 to Eunos Road 5
5. From Paya Lebar Road to Geylang East Avenue 1
6. From Lorong 3 Geylang to Lorong 1 Geylang
7. From Clementi Road to Clementi MRT Station
8. From Jurong East Central to Block 107, Jurong East Street 13
9. From Lakeside MRT Station to Corporation Road
Costing about $17 million, installation works are expected to complete by mid-2017, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said in a statement today.
Following successful pilot projects in Bishan and Jurong East, the LTA had in December 2013 awarded the first contract to install 10km of noise barriers at 16 locations.
Installation works are still ongoing in Admiralty, Marsiling and Sembawang, and will next be carried out at Ang Mo Kio, Pioneer and Yew Tee. All installation works are on schedule to complete in 2016, the LTA said.
The noise barriers are expected to reduce railway noise levels by five to 10 decibels.
The second phase of the railway noise barrier programme, which the LTA targets to complete by 2019, is projected to begin in 2016. Further details will be announced by the LTA later this year.