Marine Parade MRT station is a future underground
Mass Rapid Transit station on the
Thomson–East Coast line in
Marine Parade
Marine Parade is a planning area and residential estate located in the Central Region of Singapore. Straddling the tip of the southeastern coast of Pulau Ujong, Marine Parade serves as a buffer between the Central and East regions of the ci ...
, Singapore.
Located underneath Marine Parade Road near the junction of Marine Parade Central, the station will serve the nearby housing estates as well as
Parkway Parade, hotels and
I12 Katong.
History
On 15 August 2014, the
Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that Marine Parade station would be part of the proposed
Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). The station will be constructed as part of Phase 4, consisting of 8 stations between
Founders' Memorial
The Founders' Memorial is a memorial under development within the Bay East Garden of the Gardens by the Bay to commemorate the founding fathers of Singapore as well as to cover the country's contemporary history from after World War II to its fi ...
and
Bayshore, and is expected to be completed in 2024.
Contract T307 for the design and construction of Marine Parade Station was awarded to
Samsung C&T Corporation
Samsung C&T Corporation ("Construction & Trading Corporation"; formerly Samsung Corporation; Korean: 삼성물산), is a South Korean construction and engineering company. It was founded in 1938 as the first Samsung company and was initially in ...
at a sum of S$555 million in November 2015. Construction has started in 2016, with expected completion in 2024.
To facilitate the station's construction, the junction between Joo Chiat Road and Marine Parade Road had to be closed from 9 April to 12 November 2017.
Initially expected to open in 2023, the restrictions on the construction due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
has led to delays in the construction of the TEL, and the completion date was pushed to 2024.
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Proposed railway stations in Singapore
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024
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