Central Area - Transport

Transport

There has always been a high flow of traffic within the CBD due to its identity as the core of the financial centre in Singapore, resulting in a high density of offices in this area of the city. This leads to a large amount of people commuting to and from the city to work everyday. In a bid to prevent congestion in the city, the Government has implemented several different measures to curb the problem. For example, 5 more ERP gantries were erected in the CBD since July 2008. The operating hours of these gantries are also tweaked to accurately reflect the traffic situation in the CBD. A multistory automated car park has also been constructed to allow workers around the area to park their cars with a peace of mind and it is also very convenient as the driver does not have to waste the time to find a parking lot.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has also implemented several taxi stands around the city as designated points along busy main roads since taxi drivers are not allowed to pick up or drop off passengers within the Central Business District (CBD) area in Singapore, where buses ply daily from 7am to 10pm except on Sundays and Public Holidays to ensure the safety of passengers, taxi drivers and other road users, except at the designated taxi-stops.

SBS Transit and SMRT also offer bus services from the various parts of Singapore to the CBD via direct bus services. A new scheme of premium bus services running during the morning and evening peak hours provide quick bus connection downtown.

Singapore's rapid rail transit network, the MRT, calls at several stops downtown, including City Hall, Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar. All four rail lines (all in operation) in Singapore run through the city area, which contains multiple rail interchanges between the East West Line, the North South Line, the North East Line and the Circle Line. A railway station in Tanjong Pagar once provided a rail link to Malaysia to the north, but is no longer in operation.