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MOTORISTS who have to brave the constant traffic gridlock on the Central Expressway - Singapore's most congested highway - can expect a smoother ride in about 20 months' time.
The Land Transport Authority has awarded the first contract to widen the expressway to Sesdaq-listed Or Kim Peow Contractors.
The local firm will widen a 1.5km stretch between Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 and 3, adding an extra lane in each direction, for $16.86 million. Work will start soon, and be completed by end-2009.
By 2011, the entire CTE, stretching from Bukit Timah to Yio Chu Kang, will be widened to have four lanes in each direction.
The LTA will also be improving existing connections to the expressway at Bukit Timah and Pan-Island Expressway.
This widening project is the most extensive since the CTE was opened in 1991.
It is part of a broad plan to improve land transport announced by Transport Minister Raymond Lim in January.
The plan includes building a 21km largely underground North-South Expressway, which is to be ready by 2020.
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