Tharman unveils Jurong GRC upgrading plan
JURONG GRC residents can expect fully upgraded lifts, sports facilities, parks and home maintenance improvements under a new five-year plan entitled 'A Better Environment For All'.
Launching an exhibition to showcase the proposals at the Jurong East MRT station yesterday was Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a Jurong GRC MP.
He highlighted achievements that had been 'implemented as promised' such as estate improvements, lift upgrading and barrier-free accessibility, as well as cost-saving initiatives like LED lighting along common corridors.
Mr Tharman also announced plans and projects for the future. These include:
A Lift Upgrading Programme for 282 blocks of flats over the next four years such that the programme will be completed for all eligible blocks;
A wheelchair-friendly sensory park in Bukit Batok West, and family parks in Bukit Batok East, Yuhua and Jurong East Street 32;
Open plazas to enable better movement at shopping areas in Bukit Batok East, Bukit Batok and Jurong East;
Accelerating the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme, including having a sports park and covered sepak takraw court;
Extending the Home Improvement Programme to provide maintenance repairs to 400 more blocks over the next 10 years;
Sprucing up shops along Blocks 501 to 508 in Jurong West under the Housing Board's Revitalisation of Shops scheme;
Upgrading playgrounds and having additional pavilions and community halls;
Having more park connectors, cycling paths, covered linkways, sheltered pedestrian overhead bridges; and
A pilot project using solar energy to power corridor lights, lifts and water pumps.
The changes are part of the transformation of the Jurong Lake District to become a new city centre in the west.
There will be better education and health-care facilities, including the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong Hospital, linked to the adjoining 286-bed Jurong Community Hospital. The hospitals will open in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Mr Tharman said the People's Action Party (PAP) team did not just focus on delivering new facilities and amenities, but also had social and welfare programmes to help people find jobs, gave bursaries to low-income children, helped senior citizens stay active and bonded the community.
'As PAP MPs, we will continue to spare no effort into helping people improve their lives,' he said.
CAI HAOXIANG
JURONG GRC residents can expect fully upgraded lifts, sports facilities, parks and home maintenance improvements under a new five-year plan entitled 'A Better Environment For All'.
Launching an exhibition to showcase the proposals at the Jurong East MRT station yesterday was Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a Jurong GRC MP.
He highlighted achievements that had been 'implemented as promised' such as estate improvements, lift upgrading and barrier-free accessibility, as well as cost-saving initiatives like LED lighting along common corridors.
Mr Tharman also announced plans and projects for the future. These include:
A Lift Upgrading Programme for 282 blocks of flats over the next four years such that the programme will be completed for all eligible blocks;
A wheelchair-friendly sensory park in Bukit Batok West, and family parks in Bukit Batok East, Yuhua and Jurong East Street 32;
Open plazas to enable better movement at shopping areas in Bukit Batok East, Bukit Batok and Jurong East;
Accelerating the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme, including having a sports park and covered sepak takraw court;
Extending the Home Improvement Programme to provide maintenance repairs to 400 more blocks over the next 10 years;
Sprucing up shops along Blocks 501 to 508 in Jurong West under the Housing Board's Revitalisation of Shops scheme;
Upgrading playgrounds and having additional pavilions and community halls;
Having more park connectors, cycling paths, covered linkways, sheltered pedestrian overhead bridges; and
A pilot project using solar energy to power corridor lights, lifts and water pumps.
The changes are part of the transformation of the Jurong Lake District to become a new city centre in the west.
There will be better education and health-care facilities, including the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong Hospital, linked to the adjoining 286-bed Jurong Community Hospital. The hospitals will open in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Mr Tharman said the People's Action Party (PAP) team did not just focus on delivering new facilities and amenities, but also had social and welfare programmes to help people find jobs, gave bursaries to low-income children, helped senior citizens stay active and bonded the community.
'As PAP MPs, we will continue to spare no effort into helping people improve their lives,' he said.
CAI HAOXIANG
