11 MRT stations to open in November

The Land Transport Authority LTA announced on Friday that eleven MRT stations along the Thomson-East Coast Line TEL will be open for passenger service on November 13, which includes Stevens, Napier, Orchard Boulevard, Orchard, Great World, Havelock, Outram Park, Maxwell, Shenton Way, Marina Bay and Gardens by the Bay.

Four of these are interchange stations. In a media factsheet, LTA said that they connect TEL commuters to all existing MRT lines.

The station of Stevens will connect to Downtown Line while the Orchard station will provide a connection to North-South Line. Outram Park and Marina Bay stations are both three-line interchanges, with Outram Park connecting to the East-West Line and North-East Line and Marina Bay connecting to the North-South Line and Circle Line.

An open event will be held on November 11 and commuters can travel free along the new stations from 10 am to 9 pm on that day.

LTA said that other activities will be held to mark the opening of the newest stage of the TEL, and these will be announced on its social media pages.

Only two stations under Stage 3 Mount Pleasant and Marina South will be open when housing developments around them are ready.

In August 2021, Stage 2, which includes six stations from Springleaf to Caldecott, added passenger service to the three stations in Woodlands that opened in 2020 in Stage 1.