LTA to upgrade 17 pedestrian overhead bridges next year

Lifts will be installed.

According to a release, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has called tenders to retrofit 17 existing pedestrian overhead bridges (POBs) and allow for the installation of lifts. 

The installation of lifts at these POBs is part of efforts to further enhance accessibility to our transport infrastructure, especially for the less mobile. In January this year, Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew announced that LTA will extend the installation of lifts to about another 40 POBs island-wide. The 17 POBs are the first batch of the 40 POBs to be retrofitted. This is in addition to the ongoing works to install lifts at 6 POBs next to MRT stations.

LTA has conducted site surveys as part of the preparatory work to ensure that it is technically feasible to install the lifts at the selected POBs. LTA will announce the locations of the remaining POBs by early next year.

Construction will begin early next year and the lifts will be progressively completed from 2016 onwards.