Recently, Circle Line stage 1 & 2 was announced to be opened on April 17 this year. The rest will open in 2011. The Circle Line project, which started in 2003, will take 8 years in total to complete and be usable. Compared to the North East Line which was constructed from 1997 to 2003, which is in many ways similar to the Circle Line, the Circle Line took 33% more time to build. Most of the extra time can be attributed to the Nicoll Highway Crash in April 2004, which called for a rebuilding on many other Circle Line stations. It was solely a "man-made" problem, not a natural event or something that occurred by chance. Has irresponsibility gone higher with time?
Circle Line is a orbital line which follows quite closely the Outer Ring Road System (ORRS). It is almost perpedicular to the lines that it intersects, as such bypass the city. Before this is opened, passengers transferring to another line need to transfer in the city.
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