MM Lee unveils 5-year masterplan for area, promising slew of enhancements
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday unveiled a five-year master-plan for Tanjong Pagar GRC and Radin Mas single-member constituency.
The plan promises residents more green spaces, new and spruced-up public housing estates and better transport links in the next five years. It also aims to make life easier for the large pool of elderly residents in the GRC, located at the geographical centre of the island.
In the works are handrails and ramps across all estates, and lifts on every floor by 2014.
There will also be new flats, new playgrounds, a faster broadband network, and enhancements to several schools - to attract younger residents.
Mr Lee, who has represented Tanjong Pagar since 1955, highlighted to some 500 residents the role that the Government's policy of home ownership has played in Singapore's stability and progress. He pledged more improvements.
The ABC waters programme has turned a 1.2km stretch of the Alexandra Canal, from Tanglin Road to Delta Road, into an open waterway with play and wetland areas, a community plaza and lookout decks, among other features.
Why refurbish?
'Every time an estate gets old, we renew it, we refurbish it. Why? Because we want to increase the value of your homes, beautify the surroundings.'
'Eighty-five per cent are in HDB homes. We intend to keep the values of these homes up. They will never go down,' he added.
MINISTER MENTOR LEE KUAN YEW on the rejuvenation of Tanjong Pagar, which includes large-scale projects like Commonwealth10
- The Sunday Times
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