2008 Upgrading Project
The Woodsville Interchange upgrading project commenced in the third quarter of 2007 with the awarding of the Singapore branch of Gammon Construction Limited as the main civil contractor after a six-months study conducted by Parsons Brinckerhoff Pte Ltd to evaluate the best construction method that is safe and best minimises inconvenience to motorists, residents and business owners. The project was expected to be completed by 2011 back then.
The project includes the building of three underpasses and an overpass. Two of the underpasses will have two lanes per direction each, stretching from Serangoon Road and Bendemeer Road to Upper Serangoon Road. The third underpass will have one lane and will stretch from MacPherson Road to Bendemeer Road. The flyover will stretch from a slip road of Exit 15 along Pan Island Expressway to Kallang Way. In addition, at-grade traffic flows will be modified, including the closing and removal of Whampoa North, a u-turn road from Bendemeer Road to Serangoon Road, with the land returning to the government.
This project is one of the most expensive of its kind at that time, costing S$S$130 million dollars, several times more expensive than any single flyover and tunnel project completed elsewhere in Singapore. It is one of the most complex construction as well due to the MRT tunnel beneath the interchange and the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System which runs parallel to the expressway. Several buildings will be affected by the road widening and the former Serangoon Fire Station will have to be torn down.
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