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SINGAPORE – The Hume MRT station on the Downtown Line will be upgraded and operational by JSM Construction Group for a contract value of $ 34.3 million, the Land Transportation Authority (LTA) said on Thursday (January 14).
Works on the station are expected to be completed in 2025, as announced in 2019, 12 years after the Downtown Line began operating in 2013.
A shell station structure was completed for Hume in 2015 and JSM Construction Group has been commissioned to construct the station entrance and ventilation shaft, and carry out other refurbishment work.
Hume Station is located on Upper Bukit Timah Road between Hillview and Beauty World stations. It will serve many large condos in the area, including Hume Park 1, Hume Park 2, Parc Palais, The Hillside, and Hillview 128.
The more than 20,000 residents in the area have been pushing for works at the station to begin for about two years, and the government previously said that developments in the area and growing passenger numbers did not yet justify opening the station. station.
Last year it was revealed that the works would begin in the fourth quarter of 2020. The delay in the award of the civil contract is possibly due to the approval period by various authorities and agencies.
When the Hume station goes online, it will save residents about 15 minutes of travel time to areas of the city and the Botanical Gardens. It will also provide more convenient access to less connected places, such as the railway corridor and the former Ford factory, now a museum on the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
The LTA said that JSM Construction Group will have extensive installation work to do at the underground station. The works will be carried out only after the railway services have ceased to function and when the operator is not carrying out maintenance work.
JSM Construction Group is also currently carrying out modification and expansion work for the Pasir Ris station and had previously worked on the construction of additional platforms at the Choa Chu Kang MRT / LRT station.
More contracts will be awarded for the Hume station. Contractors have yet to be hired for electrical and mechanical services and rail system installation and testing.
LTA said that the electrical and mechanical services contract will be awarded later this quarter. The rail systems will be purchased from the incumbent contractors that had supplied the remainder of the Downtown line.
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