SINGAPORE – Train services on the East-West Line (EWL) will not run between Bedok and Tampines stations for 10 days from Nov 29 to Dec 8. There will also be no service between Tanah Merah and Expo stations for this period.

Affected passengers will have to take shuttle buses instead, and should allot more time for their journeys, which could take up to 30 minutes longer, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA). The cost of their journey, however, will remain the same.

An estimated 180,000 passengers could to be affected over these 10 days of service adjustments, according to LTA.

Those travelling to Simei and Tanah Merah can take shuttle bus service Shuttle 7 - which stops at those spots between Bedok and Tampines stations, while those heading to or from Expo can take Shuttle 8, which plys between Bedok and Expo stations.

Announcing this in a statement on Oct 3, LTA said this is the second round of service adjustments to allow works connecting tracks from the existing EWL to the new East Coast Integrated Depot to take place.

These works will also connect the tracks to a new platform at Tanah Merah station.

Shuttle 7 will operate with every three to five minutes, while Shuttle 8 will run every 10 minutes.

Commuters can also take shuttle trains running at five-minute intervals between Tampines and Pasir Ris stations and between Expo and Changi Airport stations, as well as between Paya Lebar and Bedok stations every eight minutes.

There are longer waiting times for these shuttle trains, compared to the regular services of around 2 to 3 minutes during peak hours.

At around the halfway mark of the ten-day period, the wait for shuttle trains between Paya Lebar and Bedok stations could go up to 17 minutes during off-peak hours to facilitate the live testing of the signalling system of trains on the new tracks, LTA said.

This round of closures comes after the