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Chua Chu KangT O W N C O U N C I LConnect

sBukit Gombak

MCI (P) 149/06/2014 August 2015

Special Edition

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Dear Residents and Friendsspruced-up environment. The upgrading not only fixes common maintenance problems, it also offers residents the choice of subsidized improvements, like a new front door or bathroom fixtures.

In the area of security, the Police will complete the installation of CCTVs in all HDB blocks and multi-storey carparks.

A big boost coming your way soon is the arrival of the Hillview MRT station. In addition, road improvements in the areas of Upper Bukit Timah Road and Jalan Anak Bukit will reduce travelling times with the construction of new flyovers and widened roads. And, under the Walk2Ride programme, LTA will add many kilometres of covered linkways to connect schools, health care facili-ties and public amenities within a 400m radius of our Bukit Gombak and Hillview MRT stations. This will help make your journey more comfortable.

Most of all, we are all looking forward to the com-pletion of our Community Club in 2016. It will be a great place to get together for sports, learning, bonding and fun.

At many of our events and activities, I have been both impressed and heartened by the close bonds that have developed between residents and grassroots leaders in the HDB and private housing estates. For in-stance, our residents from all walks of life recently joined their hearts and hands to paint and decorate the SG50 wall murals in our void decks.

Let’s keep on working as one. Together, we can make sure Bukit Gombak is the best place to call home.

Ms Low Yen LingMayor of South West District

Parliamentary SecretaryMinistry of Culture, Community and Youth

Ministry of Social and Family DevelopmentMP for Chua Chu Kang GRC (Bukit Gombak)

Your home is a special place and we strive to make Bukit Gombak the estate you can call home with pride and joy.

In this brief report, you’ll see that, in the past few years, many improvements in Bukit Gombak have been made – from recreational facilities and upgraded lifts to new walkways and carparks.

Playgrounds, fitness corners and sports courts have been built or renewed; covered linkways and drop-off porches have been added; all this on top of the regular repainting and upgrading work done by the Town Council.

Meanwhile, HDB has completed the Lift Upgrading Programme at Block 373 and added three surface car parks in the year 2014. In addition, as part of the Tengah Natureway project, NParks has beautified the streets with flowering plants and shrubs.

Getting around Bukit Gombak is now easier than before. Launched in January this year, the free shuttle bus service from HillV2 links some 42,000 residents from Bukit Batok, Hume, Hillview and Pavilion areas to key nodes in Bukit Gombak, including the Bukit Gom-bak MRT Station. More services have been added to the popular City Direct Bus 653, giving you more conve-nience during peak hours.

Many of these improvements would not have been as successful without your feedback and participation. Thank you for being part of the efforts to make Bukit Gombak a better place.

In the next five years, you can look forward to even more good things from the Town Council and govern-ment agencies. The Council alone has planned for 25 estate improvement projects. The HDB plans to extend their Home Improvement Programme to 20 blocks, or about 2,000 flats in Bukit Gombak. Residents from Guilin (Blk 512 to 514 and Blk 535 to 542) and Hill-grove (Blk 501 to 511) will enjoy rejuvenated flats and a

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亲爱的居民和朋友们家，是一个特殊的地方。因此，多年来我们不懈努力，致力于将武吉甘柏打造成令你们感到自豪和喜悦的家园。

从简报中可以看出，过去五年里，武吉甘柏已经完成了许多发展。我们增设了新的休闲娱乐设施，更新了电梯，新增了人行道和多层停车场。我们还新建或翻新了游乐场、健身角落和体育场、增设了有盖走廊和有盖落客点。除了这些项目，定期重新粉刷和翻新的工程是由市镇理事会完成。

与此同时，建屋发展局已于2014年完成了第373座的电梯翻新计划，也翻新了三个停车场。作为登加自然连接道项目的一部分，国家公园局也已经完成了街道上种植花草树木的美化项目。

武吉甘柏的交通网络已经升级，居民出行更为方便。今年一月，我们推行了免费短程巴士服务计划，该计划线路起点设在HillV2，沿途经过武吉巴督、Hume、Hillview和Pavilion地区、和武吉甘柏的各重要站点，包括武吉甘柏地铁站，惠及约42,000居民。此外，除了现行的653巴士以外，我们还增设了更多的市区直通巴士线，让您在高峰时段出行时能够坐享便利。

当然，这些成功的改进项目是离不开你们的反馈和参与。感谢你们对武吉甘柏所做的努力，让它成为一个更美好的地方。

在未来五年内，市镇理事会和政府机构将继续推行更多的惠民工程。市镇理事会已筹划了25个社区改造项目。建屋发展局则计划将其现行的家居改进计划扩展到武吉甘柏20座组屋或近2000个组屋单位。届时，桂林（512至514座和535到542座）以及育林（501至511座）的居民朋友们将享受焕然一新和舒适整洁的环境。该升级计划不仅解决常见的维修问题，还为居民提供了可享受补贴的改造，比如: 装设新大门或浴室设备。

在安全方面，警察局将为所有政府组屋和多层停车场安装闭路电视。

来临，山景地铁站将很快启用。此外，也将实施武吉知马路上段以及惹兰安娜武吉的道路改善计划，兴建新的立交桥，拓宽道路，从而缩短交通出行时间。根据 Walk2Ride计划，陆路交通管理局将新增多条有盖通道，将武吉甘柏和山景地铁站方圆400米内的学校、医疗机构和公共设施连接起来，为您的旅途增添更多舒适和便利。

武吉甘柏民众俱乐部将于2016年竣工，这将是万众期待的项目。居民朋友们可以欢聚在此，大家一起在俱乐部闲话家常，强身健体，互相学习，休闲娱乐。

在我们展开的众多活动中，令我印象最为深刻也最受鼓舞的是政府组屋及私人组屋居民和基层领袖之间建立的亲密关系。例如，近日来自各行各业的居民朋友一齐动手粉刷和装饰在组屋底层的新加坡建国50周年壁画。

让我们继续携手并进，将武吉甘柏打造成更美好的家园。

刘燕玲女士西南区市长

文化,社区及青年部兼社会及家庭发展部政务次长

蔡厝港集选区囯会议员 (武吉甘柏)

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501 hingga 511) akan menikmati flat yang diperbaharui dan persekitaran yang lebih ceria. Penaikan taraf tidak sahaja menyelesaikan masalah penyelenggaraan biasa, ia juga menawarkan kepada penduduk pilihan penam-bahbaikan bersubsidi, seperti pintu hadapan baharu atau pelengkapan bilik mandi.

Dari segi keselamatan, pihak Polis akan meleng-kapkan pemasangan CCTV di semua blok HDB dan tempat letak kereta berbilang tingkat.

Dengan terbinanya stesen MRT Hillview, kawasan anda akan mengalami suasana yang jauh lebih sibuk tidak lama lagi. Selain daripada itu, peningkatan jalan di kawasan Jalan Upper Bukit Timah dan Jalan Anak Bukit akan mengurangkan masa perjalanan dengan pembi-naan jejambat dan jalan yang lebih luas. Dan, di bawah program Walk2Ride, LTA akan menambahkan beberapa kilometer laluan penghubung berbumbung untuk men-ghubungkan sekolah, fasilitas penjagaan kesihatan dan kemudahan awam dalam lengkongan 400m sekitar Bukit Gombak dan stesen MRT Hillview. Ini akan mem-bantu menjadikan perjalanan anda lebih selesa.

Yang penting sekali, kami semua tidak sabar-sabar menunggu Kelab Masyarakat disiapkan pada tahun 2016. Ia akan menjadi tempat perhimpunan yang paling sesuai untuk bersukan, belajar dan bergembira.

Dalam banyak acara dan aktiviti yang kami lak-sanakan, saya berasa sangat kagum dan terharu den-gan hubungan rapat yang telah terjalin antara penduduk dan pemimpin akar umbi dalam estet perumahan HDB dan swasta. Sebagai contoh, semua golongan pen-duduk kami baru-baru ini telah bersatu hati dan ber-ganding bahu mengecat dan mencantikkan mural dind-ing SG50 di kolong kosong kami.

Marilah kita terus bekerja sebagai satu pasukan. Bersama, kita boleh memastikan Bukit Gombak menjadi tempat yang terbaik untuk didiami.

Ms Low Yen LingDatuk Bandar Wilayah South West

Setiausaha ParlimenKementerian Kebudayaan, Komuniti dan Belia

Kementerian Sosial dan Pembangunan KeluargaAP untuk GRC Chua Chu Kang (Bukit Gombak)

Penduduk dan Saudara-Saudara yang DihormatiKediaman anda ialah tempat yang istimewa dan kami berusaha untuk menjadikan Bukit Gombak sebuah estet yang anda boleh katakan sebagai tempat tinggal anda dengan penuh bangga dan keriangan.

Dalam laporan ringkas ini, anda akan lihat ba-hawa, dalam masa lima tahun kebelakangan ini, banyak penambahbaikan telah dilakukan – dari fasilitas rekreasi dan lif yang ditambahbaik hingga laluan berjalan kaki dan tempat parkir kereta baharu.

Taman permainan, sudut kecergasan dan gelang-gang sukan telah dibina atau diperbaharui; laluan peng-hubung berbumbung dan anjung menurunkan barangan telah ditambah; semua ini selain daripada mengecat semula dan kerja-kerja penaikan taraf secara tetap yang dilakukan oleh Majlis Perbandaran.

Sementara itu, HDB telah menyiapkan Program Penambahbaikan Lif di Blok 373 dan menambahkan tiga tempat parkir kereta atas tanah dalam tahun 2014. Selain daripada itu, sebagai sebahagian daripada projek Tengah Natureway, Nparks telah menghiasi jalanan den-gan banyak pokok berbunga dan renek.

Bergerak di sekitar Bukit Gombak kini adalah lebih mudah daripada sebelumnya. Dilancarkan dalam bulan Januari tahun ini, perkhidmatan bas ulang alik percuma dari Hume, HillV2 menghubungkan 42,000 penduduk dari kawasan Bukit Batok, Hume, Hillview dan Pavilion ke nod-nod utama di Bukit Gombak, termasuk Ste-sen MRT Bukit Gombak. Lebih banyak perkhidmatan telah ditambah ke City Direct Bus 653, yang akan lebih memudahkan anda semasa waktu sibuk.

Banyak daripada penambahbaikan ini tidak akan berjaya seperti sekarang tanpa maklum balas dan pe-nyertaan anda. Terima kasih kerana menjadi sebahagian daripada usaha untuk menjadikan Bukit Gombak tempat yang lebih baik.

Dalam lima tahun akan datang, anda akan melihat lebih banyak perkara yang baik daripada Majlis Per-bandaran dan agensi kerajaan. Majlis itu sahaja telah merancang 25 projek penambahbaikan estet. HDB merancang untuk memanjangkan Program Penambah-baikan Rumah ke 20 blok, atau lebih kurang 2,000 flat di Bukit Gombak. Penduduk daripada Guilin (Blk 512 hingga 514 dan Blk 535 hingga 542) dan Hillgrove (Blk

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We believe community action matters

The Fun Walkers @ SouthWest is one of the most popular community activities we have. Not only does it give you good, regular exercise, brisk-walking gives you a great opporltunity to get to know your neighbours and have a good chat.

We believe in celebrating ALL the Festivals. Not just the festivals that are part of our own religion and culture, but the festivals that are important to our neighbours and friends. We get to know one another better that way, and we have good times all through the year!

For Singapore to thrive – and for Bukit Gombak to be everything

you want – it’s important for us all to knit together as one community.

To help this happen, we have get-togethers, parties, dinners, outings and other events. We have organised sports leagues, clubs and interest groups.

If you live in Bukit Gombak, you have umpteen opportunities to get out and meet your neighbours, get to know them, work and play with them, help to build a stronger sense of community for all of us.

Come on. Join in.

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Emergency Preparedness Day is an annual event organised by the constituency’s Community Emergency and Engagement Committee (C2E), the SCDF and Town Council to show neighbours what they can do in an emergency, and how to do it.

Our founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew decided that a clean and green Singapore would have an advantage and started planting trees in 1963. We continue the an-nual tradition of Tree Planting Day as a way to nurture a love and respect for the trees that keep us cool.

We believe community action matters

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we believe improving amenities matters

Drop-off Porch at Block 542 Bukit Batok Street 52 Senior Fitness Corner at Block 387 Bukit Batok Ave 5

Senior Citizens Corner at Block 536 Bukit Batok Street 52 Sheltered walkway along Hume Avenue

Rain Shelter at Hillview Avenue 3G Playground at Block 388A Bukit Batok West Ave 5

“A very comfortable place to meet up with old friends.”

“Going to catch the

bus is better now.”

“Now this is a really exciting place for the kids to play.”

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we believe improving amenities mattersWe completed 46 improvements in Bukit Gombak in the past 5 years, including

5 Estate Upgrading Programmes.

The Town Council built 8 covered linkways and porches, 6 playgrounds, 2 fitness corners for seniors, and

2 sports courts.In the next 5 years

the Council plans to spend another $2m on community facilities, including 4 fitness corners, 2 playgrounds,

3 covered linkways, and

2 drop-off porches. 20 blocks have

already been selected for the Home Improvement Programme.

Covered Linkway between Blocks 508 and 510 Bukit Batok St 52

BFA Ramp between Galistan Avenue and Phoenix Garden

3G Playground at Pavilion Park

“When it’s raining and I can cross the road without getting wet - I thank the

Town Council!”

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we have

big plans for the futureHong Kah North

Chua Chu Kang

Keat Hong

Bukit Gombak

Nanyang

Yew Tee

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We’re growing our garden

We have great plans for the rail corridor. The interna-tional competition for design has closed and soon you will be able to give your feedback on the plans for the reuse of this wonderful 26 kilometre-long green path.

We are improving and adding Parks. Choa Chu Kang Park is the green heart of our Town. The park was re-cently expanded with new facilities such as innovative play areas for children. You’ll get to enjoy more new parks and leisure spaces soon.

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We are improving connectivity and accessibility by adding more sheltered linkways that are directly connected to MRT and LRT stations, as well as bus stops. It’s part of LTA’s Walk2Ride programme and Bukit Gombak MRT station will be getting over 600 metres of sheltered linkways soon.

There will be major road improvements around Jalan Anak Bukit. A three-lane dual carriageway will link Jalan Jurong Kechil and Clementi Road and the Jalan Anak Bukit slip road to the PIE will be widened. Jalan Jurong Kechil between Toh Tuck and Upper Bukit Timah will get another lane, making three-lane in both directions.

We’re growing our garden

We are building a network of approximately 12.5km of new off-road cycling paths in our Town. It’s part of the plan to build over 700km of cycling paths island-wide by 2030. LTA plans to implement the Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Panjang sectors around the same time, targeting completion in 2018 .

Slated for completion this year, Hillview MRT station on the new Downtown Line will be a boon for all Hillview/Hume estate residents. It will be connected by a very long, 800m covered linkway that goes all the way to the bus stop outside the Lam Soon Industrial Building!

– and building better pathways through it!

Hillview MRT station, situated between Dairy Farm and Hillview roads, will be ready at the end of 2015. It is one of 12 train stops being built under Stage 2 of the Downtown Line, which will connect commuters to Little India, Rochor, Bugis, Chinatown and eventually even Geylang, besides the city.

There will be sheltered walkways within a 400 metre radius of the station. This is part of the national Walk2Ride programme, which aims to make the island a car-light one. Hillview MRT was given priority for this programme after MP Low Yen Ling had several discussions with the authorities and brought the issueup in Parliament earlier this year.

The existing Bukit Gombak MRT station was given priority to participate in the Walk2Ride programme, under which a sheltered walkway will be built to link the station to Goodview Gardens precinct (Blocks 383 to 395) and the Sunshine precinct (Blocks 523 to 525, Blocks 526 to 534, Blocks 371 to 376), as well as Guilin View and The Madeira condos.

A 400-metre-long, three-lane dual carriageway will be built between Jalan Jurong Kechil and Clementi Road to provide drivers from Toh Yi with an alternative route to the city. This will free up Jalan Anak Bukit for residents coming from Hillview Avenue and Hume Avenue.

The project also involves the widening of the Jalan Anak Bukit slip road to the PIE. The stretch of Jalan Jurong Kechil between Toh Tuck and Upper Bukit Timah roads will have an extra lane added, so there are three lanes in both directions.

The changes will also benefit those taking the bus, as services would be less affected by the traffic.

sheltered walkways from MRTMajor road improvement worksaround Jalan Anak Bukit

Jalan Anak Bukit

Drivers who travel Upper Bukit Timah Road will soon be able to bypass the peak-hour choke points along this major artery to the Kranji and Mandai industrial estates in the north with the help of two new flyovers.

The first one will run between The Rail Mall and Chestnut Drive, soaring over the Dairy Farm Road and Hillview Road junctions with Upper Bukit Timah Road.

The other will take off before Petir Road, allowing drivers to avoid the junction where Bukit Panjang Road and Choa Chu Kang Road meet Upper Bukit Timah Road.

Both roads will have three lanes running in both directions, and are due to be ready before 2016.

flyovers to avoid the jam

Junction 10 Flyover Dairy Farm Flyover

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ER478 – WIDENING OF WOODLANDS ROAD, CHOA CHU KANG LINK AND STAGMONT RING

The main scope of works are as follows

a) Widening of Woodlands Road, Choa Chu Kang Link and Stagmont Ring;

b) Construction of vehicular bridge along Choa Chu Kang Link over Sungei Pang Sua;

c) Construction of covered pedestrian overhead bridges, covered linkways, bus shelters and associated ancillary works.

Contract Details � Contractor : Hwa Seng Builders Pte. Ltd.

� Contract Award : 10 June 2015 � Contract End : 3rd Quarter of 2018

� Contract Period : 36 Months

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SUNGEI PANG SUA

PROPOSED ROAD WORKS

PEDESTRIAN OVERHEAD BRIDGE

Coming Up

Hillview MRT

Bukit Gombak MRT

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New sheltered walkwayExisting sheltered walkway

Bukit GombakMRT

The estimated distance of the sheltered walkway from the station to Goodview Garden precinct is 440 metres.

At Sunshine precinct, a total of 4 sheltered walkways, estimated 200 metres, will be constructed to link up with the existing sheltered walkway at Block 523 and 525.

More than 4000 households staying in these areas will benefit from this scheme.

UPPER BUKIT TIMAH ROAD

HILLVIEW ROAD

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Our Chua Chu Kang GRC will have two new Community Clubs by the end of 2016. On Hillview Avenue, the four-storey Bukit Gombak club will be eco-friendly, with the roof and one side, covered in plants. Both clubs will be great places to get together for sports, learning, making friends, and fun.

The Home Improvement Programme (HIP) will be brought to all eligible blocks by 2020, including Sunshine Precinct’s Block 523-534 Bukit Batok St 51/52 and Block 371-376 Bukit Batok St 31. HIP helps you deal with the maintenance problems common to ageing flats. If your block is selected for it, you’ll be offered a range of free Essential Improvements – such as fixing spalling concrete and replacing pipes and laundry pole holders – and heavily sub-sidised Optional Improvements – such as new bathroom fixtures.

BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER

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big or small, it all matters to us

Solar power panels will be installed on the roofs of 40 blocks in our Town and HDB plans to install more. Re-cently HDB called tenders under EDB’s SolarNova Pro-gramme, which aims to have solar power contribute 350 MWp to Singapore’s system by 2020.

To encourage a greener lifestyle and give you more con-venience and security, we will install two-tier bicycle racks in all blocks that now have insufficient parking space for bicycles.

For your convenience and to meet the needs of working families, the National Environment Agency is going to build another Hawker Centre for our town. Its pro-posed location and completion date will be announced at a later date.

Automated External Defibrillators, or AEDs, will be in-stalled in every other block by the end of 2016. And for your security, the Police will install CCTV cameras in all HDB blocks and multi-storey carparks by 2017.

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Let’s work together to make Chua Chu Kang GRC an even

better home for all