More effective and extensive coverage for EMAS electronic signboards

Motorists can look forward to new electronic signboards on major roads and expressways from Sunday, the 2^nd of November, reported The Straits Times. The revised EMAS signboards can display both textual and graphical messages.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has completed the installation of 70 enhanced Expressway Monitoring and Advisory System (EMAS) signboards on the Central Expressway (CTE) and East Coast Parkway (ECP).

Motorists will be informed with colour-coded travel time information from these signboards, prior to entering the expressways. Moreover, LTA also revealed that upgrading work for EMAS signboards on the other expressways should be completed by 2017.

Click here for an illustration of how the traffic messages and travel time information are displayed on the enhanced signboards.

In addition, LTA has also completed the installation of 70 new electronic signboards along four more major arterial road corridors - as part of the EMAS Arterial Variable Message Signs (AVMS) - to provide motorists with real-time traffic information.

Drivers in the east will see the new signboards on two stretches: between Geylang Road, Changi Road, Sims Avenue, Sims Avenue East, New Upper Changi Road and Upper Changi Road East; and between Mounbatten Road, East Coast Road, Upper East Coast Road, Bedok Road and Xilin Avenue.

In the west, the two road corridors are between West Coast Highway, Jalan Buroh and Pioneer Road; and Upper Jurong Road, Boon Lay Way, Commonwealth Avenue West and Commonwealth Avenue.

Click here for the full list of road corridors.