A new underground MRT station will be built near Yew Tee Village as part of a planned extension of the Downtown Line (DTL) from Bukit Panjang to Sungei Kadut.
When it is completed, travel time to downtown areas such as Chinatown is expected to be cut by 20 minutes.
The 4km DTL extension will also include a new interchange with the North-South Line (NSL) in Sungei Kadut Central.
The stations will open in 2035, with construction to start by the fourth quarter of 2025, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said in a statement on Jan 6.
The first new station on the DTL extension after the current terminus in Bukit Panjang will be in Sungei Kadut Avenue, on industrial land owned by government agency JTC Corporation that is slated to undergo future development.
Codenamed DE1, the station will be located near the Rail Corridor, and will be connected to Yew Tee Village, Pang Sua Fishing Deck and Pang Sua Park Connector via a new pedestrian bridge.
Yew Tee Village refers to the housing estate around Choa Chu Kang Drive and Choa Chua Kang Crescent.
A dual two-lane vehicular bridge, as well as access roads, will be built to connect the new MRT station with Choa Chu Kang North 7 and Woodlands Road. Covered linkways and cycling paths will also be constructed to improve first-and last-mile connectivity.
Farther north, the new interchange in Sungei Kadut Central will serve as the new terminus for the DTL.
The DTL station, codenamed DE2, will be built underground, and will link to a new above-ground NSL station, NS6, between the existing Yew Tee and Kranji stations.
The interchange will serve the upcoming Sungei Kadut Eco-District, a 500ha industrial estate being developed by JTC as part of longer-term plans to revamp one of Singapore's oldest industrial estates.
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