Pan Island Expressway
Length	42.8 kilometres (26.59 miles)
Direction	West - East
Starting/Ending at	Tuas (AYE) Changi South (ECP)
Main areas passed through	Jurong Bukit Timah Toa Payoh Eunos Bedok Tampines
Construction dates	1966 – 1992
Expressway(s) intersected	AYE, KJE, BKE, CTE, KPE, TPE, ECP
No. of ERP Gantries	5

Pan Island Expressway is coloured blue in this map.

The PIE extension after Nanyang Flyover, looking towards Tuas.

The Pan Island Expressway (Abbreviation: PIE; simplified Chinese: 泛岛高速公路; pinyin: Fàndǎo Gāosù Gōnglù; Tamil: தீவு விரைவுச்சாலை; Malay: Lebuhraya Rentas Pulau) is the oldest and longest of Singapore's expressways. Currently, it is also Singapore's longest road.^[1] It extends along the length of the island, connecting Tuas in the west to Singapore Changi Airport in the east. Its length is 42.8 kilometres (26.59 miles).

[edit] Construction

Construction of the PIE started in 1966 and took place in three phases. The first phase involved widening the stretch of Whitley Road from Mount Pleasant Flyover to Thomson Flyover, Jalan Toa Payoh, Jalan Kolam Ayer, and Paya Lebar Way, and replacing all the traffic light junctions on these roads with grade-separated interchanges.

Subsequently, the section from Jalan Eunos to East Coast Parkway, which involved the construction of a new road, was completed in 1980. A year later in 1981, the western end from Jalan Anak Bukit to Corporation Road was completed. The expressway was 35 kilometres (21.75 miles) long when completed.

[edit] Expansion

Modification and extension of the western end of the expressway started in 1992 to connect it to the Kranji Expressway which was being built at the time. A new 8 kilometres (4.97 miles) section was built. It forked from the existing PIE at Hong Kah Flyover, intersecting the Kranji Expressway at Tengah Flyover and ending at the Tuas Flyover with the Ayer Rajah Expressway. The 2 kilometres (1.24 miles) section of the old PIE from Hong Kah Flyover to Corporation Road was downgraded to an arterial road and renamed Jurong West Avenue 2.

As the amount of traffic using the KJE and PIE to Jurong Industrial Estate increased, the Land Transport Authority upgraded the stretch of the PIE between Tengah Flyover and Tuas Road to a four lane dual carriageway from a three lane dual carriageway. The work started in March 2004 and ended in March 2006^[2].

[edit] List of exits

[edit] Other uses

Pan Island Expressway is also the title of a play produced by TheatreWorks.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• A list of PIE interchanges
• Review of the play "Pan Island Expressway"

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