Hume MRT station on Downtown Line to open in Q2 2025

Chee gives updates on rail projects, says Govt is not done expanding network

- Kok Yufeng

Hume MRT station on the Downtown Line (DTL) will open in the second quarter of 2025, while the sixth stage of the Circle Line (CCL6) will open in the first half of 2026.

In the second half of 2026, a 2.2km DTL extension in the east linking Expo station to the future Xilin and Sungei Bedok stations will open, as will the fifth stage of the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL), which comprises Bedok South and Sungei Bedok stations.

Giving firmer updates on the progress of these rail projects, Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said in a year-end media interview on Dec 3 that the Government is not done expanding the MRT network, though he was coy about the details, citing the need for further studies.

When it opens, Hume station will serve more than 20,000 residents in the area between Hillview and Beauty World MRT stations. Work to fit out the long-empty station, a shell structure built in 2015, began in 2021 after years of lobbying. The Government had said developments in the area and ridership growth did not warrant the station opening. But this changed following moves to redevelop the Rail Corridor and the former Bukit Timah Fire Station.