22-596: Sungei Jurong (also known as the Jurong River ) is a river in Jurong East , Singapore. The Jurong River subzone runs across this river. The subzone is bounded by the Ayer Rajah Expressway , Jurong Port Road, Jalan Buroh and Penjuru Road. This Singapore location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jurong East West Coast GRC Yuhua SMC Jurong East
44-455: A means to provide additional housings for the families of the workers from the nearby areas of Jurong Industrial Estate . This was done to help ease the housing problem due in part by the overcrowding in the then nearby Taman Jurong housing estate, which was also built by JTC in 1969. In 1977, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) – Singapore's state agency for public housing, took over
66-545: A new location in 1985. The site was then re-allocated for River Valley High School from 1986 to 2003 before the school relocated to a temporary site along Malan Road in 2004 and its new permanent site in Boon Lay in 2010. In November 2006, the site was re-used and it houses Commonwealth Secondary School since then. Meanwhile, for Pandan Primary School , it existed from 1981 to 2008 before being merged with Fuhua Primary School in 2009. Industrial developments are located at
88-535: Is a planning area and residential town situated in the West Region of Singapore . It borders Jurong West and Boon Lay to the west, Clementi to the east, Tengah and Bukit Batok to the north and Selat Jurong to the south. First developed in the 1970s, it is located approximately 15 km (9.3 miles) west of the Downtown Core district. Jurong East is the 7th most populated planning area in
110-538: Is land allocated for business activities. Consisting of Jurong Lake , Jurong Gateway, International Business Park and the southern section of Toh Guan, the Jurong Lake District is a prime regional centre serving as an commercial hub for business developments remote from the Central Area , to meet the various demands of businesses and provide employment opportunities closer to people staying in
132-956: Is located along Pandan Gardens, beside blocks 416 and 415. There are 3 parks in Teban Gardens, located in Teban Gardens Road, West Coast Road (opposite block 408) and along Sungei Pandan (in front of blocks 401 and 403) respectively. South of the precinct is the Pandan Reservoir , where water-based sports activities are carried out. Currently, there is 1 primary school ( Fuhua Primary School ) and 1 secondary school ( Commonwealth Secondary School ) located in this precinct. 1 primary school ( Pandan Primary School ), 1 high school ( River Valley High School ) and 1 junior college ( Jurong Junior College ) used to be located here. Jurong Junior College started at its original location in 1981 and functioned there till 1985 being moving to
154-580: Is under Jurong GRC and Southern section under West Coast GRC . After the electoral boundaries were redrawn for the 2011 Singaporean general election , a portion of the Jurong GRC was carved out to form the Yuhua SMC. There are 3 Primary schools and 4 Secondary schools in Jurong East. There are 3 tourist attractions in Jurong East – Jurong East is connected to the rest of Singapore with
176-535: The JTC Corporation and Housing and Development Board . The Teban Gardens estate is situated within the town of Jurong East . The main road servicing the estate is Teban Gardens Road. Teban Gardens was originally a patch of mangrove swamp bordering on the Sungai Pandan area but was subsequently reclaimed to make way for housing development projects by the JTC Corporation in 1970 Flanked on
198-541: The Jurong East MRT station . Apart from providing trunk bus connection to Jurong East MRT station , The other 3 trunk bus services that do not provide connection to Jurong East MRT station are There are 1 premium and 1 express bus services plying through Teban Gardens, of which all provide connection to the Central Business District on weekdays peak hours. Situated in the middle of
220-495: The Pan Island Expressway (PIE) and the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE). Jurong East is served by 2 MRT stations: Jurong East and Chinese Garden . Jurong East Bus Interchange started operations in 1985. It later moved to its first temporary site on 17 December 2011. All the bus services, except 51, 52, 105, 160, 197 & 506 were handed over to Tower Transit Singapore on 12 June 2016. On 6 December 2020,
242-487: The West Region of Singapore. Within the boundaries of Jurong Gateway and Toh Guan, there are 5 shopping malls and only 3 of the shopping malls is currently operational: The Town Centre of Jurong East is located at Jurong Regional Centre , presently known as Jurong Gateway subzone. Teban Gardens Teban Gardens is a residential precinct located in Jurong East , Singapore. Immediately north of Pandan Reservoir , it comprises exclusively public housing built by
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#1732802612096264-558: The Land Transport Authority(LTA) announced more inclusive public transport facilities with the opening of the new Jurong Town Hall Bus Interchange (JTHBI) on Sunday, 26 November 2023. Located along Venture Drive, JTHBI complements Jurong East MRT station and Jurong East Bus Interchange, and will provide added bus capacity to cater to future developments in the area. At Jurong Port , Jurong River , Penjuru Crescent , and parts of Toh Guan and Teban Gardens , there
286-675: The West Region. Jurong East, along with the entire Jurong area in general, is envisioned to be the country's second central business district (CBD) as part of the Jurong Lake District project. The development of Jurong started in the 1970s when estates such as Boon Lay , Taman Jurong , Bukit Batok , Bukit Gombak , Hong Kah , Teban Gardens and Yuhua were built, mostly due to the resettlement of Hong Kah (present-day Tengah ) and surrounding villages. Yuhua , Teban Gardens , Bukit Batok and Bukit Gombak formed Jurong East. There are 10 subzones in Jurong East. The Northern section
308-468: The area near Sungei Pandan, Kampong Java Teban ( Malay : Kampung Jawa Teban ). Although the land reclamation of the estate began in 1970, actual construction of the estate did not begin until after 1975 as the land needed time to settle after being reclaimed from the mangrove swampland of the Sungai Pandan. JTC Corporation undertook the construction of the public housing blocks in the estate as
330-468: The blocks has been demolished. Notably, a number of companies such as Alfa Romeo , Carrier air-conditioners , Leica Camera , Konica Minolta , GE Industrial , Singapore Mint , Eltek Energy , Sin Tien Seng and Nordic Corp has set up their showroom, office or factory on a strip of land next to a road aptly named as Teban Gardens Crescent, which is sandwiched between the Ayer Rajah Expressway and
352-450: The disused railway line of KTM (Jurong Line) that runs through the back of the town. Additionally, an International Business Park (IBP) was set up in the nearby town of Jurong East where companies and corporations such as Acer Inc. , Creative Technology , Johnson & Johnson , MobileOne and the JTC Corporation are located. The main roads in this precinct are Penjuru Road, West Coast Road and Jurong Town Hall Road, which connects
374-646: The former temporary bus interchange was relocated to facilitate the construction of the Jurong Region Line and the Jurong East Integrated Transport Hub. The new relocated interchange was located opposite the current interchange, along Jurong Gateway Road between the junctions of Jurong Gateway Road/Jurong East Street 12 and Jurong Gateway Road/Jurong East Central 1. All bus services with the exception of service 78, 79, CW3 and CW4 were relocated there. On 3 November 2023,
396-608: The northern part of the precinct, along the Ayer Rajah Expressway . As of March 2016 , Teban Gardens is a part of Ayer Rajah ward within the West Coast GRC . Together with Pandan Gardens , parts of Jurong East New Town and Clementi West New Town , the four estates formed the Single Member Constituency (SMC) of Ayer Rajah SMC prior to being absorbed into the West Coast GRC during
418-587: The precinct to the rest of the island through the AYE (Exits 13 and 14), with minor roads (Teban Gardens Road and Pandan Gardens) winding through the various places in the precinct. There is a feeder bus in this precinct, called 143M . It connects the precinct to Jurong East MRT station . Previously it was 241 . There are 6 trunk bus services plying through Teban Gardens, of which all (except 176 and 30 ) originates from Jurong East Bus Interchange and therefore provide connection for people staying in this precinct to
440-452: The south side by the Pandan Reservoir , the east side by the bank of Sungai Pandan and situated at the fringe of Jurong Industrial Estate, Teban Gardens sits on the crossroad from Singapore's city center and other parts of the island towards the various industrial estates located within Jurong , Tuas as well as the nearby Jurong Island . Teban Gardens was derived from the former village in
462-504: The task of building more housing blocks, relieving JTC from this task to concentrate on its core mission of developing and managing the Jurong Industrial Estate. Currently, Teban Gardens and Pandan Gardens are satellite towns to the nearby Jurong East New Town . The first housing block was completed around 1978 with a running sequence from block 401 to 416 (both 415 and 416 are four-storey shophouses). Recently some of
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#1732802612096484-655: The town is the Teban Gardens Wet Market & Food Centre, this serves the need of the residents as well as those from the nearby Pandan Gardens, which lacks one other than having a few shophouses of its own at block No.415 and 416. Located nearby at block No.43, is the Ayer Rajah Neighbourhood Police Post (NPP) of Clementi Police Division , which continues to serve the residents since its inauguration in 1985. The precinct's community centre ( Ayer Rajah Community Club )
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