Marina South Pier Station will offer passengers departing and arriving on cruise liners at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre easy access to downtown and other parts of the island country. Media sources in Singapore say the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has planned an operational timetable that will see trains go to the new station at 10-minute intervals at peak times.
The LTA says that outside the peak hours of 07:30 to 09:30 passengers travelling to and from Marina South Pier Station will have to wait a maximum of 15 minutes for a train. The authority says it will try and lay on extra services to coincide with the arrivals of ships at the cruise port.
Construction of Marina South Pier Station began in 2009. The work finished earlier in 2014 and LTA workers have been readying the facility for its official opening since. The North-South Line was the original line on the Singapore mass-transit network. The first section linking Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh opened in 1987.
Singapore train network to open new station
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Singaporean public transport officials have released a statement saying they will inaugurate the newest station on the network this coming Sunday. Marina South Pier Station is the last and 26th station on the North-South Line and at the end of a one-kilometre line extension from Marina Bay Station.