The Woodlands Checkpoint will be expanded to meet future traffic demand, and nine Housing Board blocks nearby will be acquired to make way for the massive redevelopment.
Blocks 210 to 218 in Marsiling Crescent and Marsiling Lane will be acquired, affecting 732 sold flats, 53 rental flats, one rental kiosk, six rental shops and one rental eating house, said HDB.
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), which announced updated plans for the checkpoint yesterday, said the expansion will address traffic congestion and meet a projected 40 per cent increase in volumes by 2050.
In 2017, ICA had said that the land checkpoint would be expanded to take in the Old Woodlands Town Centre.
The checkpoint has to be extended beyond the Old Woodlands Town Centre, ICA said yesterday, noting that traffic volume has returned to more than 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels during weekends with the full reopening of land borders since April 1.
Traffic volume is expected to return to the daily average of 300,000 travellers soon, and will continue to increase thereafter to about 400,000 travellers a day by 2050, it added.
This story is from the May 27, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.
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