One of the proposed uses for the land left behind by the KTM Singapore-Malaysia railway line is to convert part of it into a natural green corridor – a suggestion that doesn’t so much imply an actual ‘conversion’ but rather leaving the nature that has grown there in its untouched state for the public to explore:

In January, Jerome attended a walk through this proposed green corridor organised by the Nature Society of Singapore:

The corridor through which the Jurong Line runs branches off at Bukit Timah Station, and stretches close to 20 km to the end of Shipyard Road near the Benoi Basin. A large part of it has probably remained in a close to natural state, relatively untouched by development since the line was constructed in the mid 1960s. The line which is essentially an extension of the main line, was intended to serve the new industrial estate then taking shape in Jurong, and the irony is that it is the line that has probably saved much of the greenery along the corridor it runs through from the fate that befell the area on which the industrial estate it was meant to serve was built on. It is along the corridor that we now find ourselves hanging on not just to the greenery it has helped preserved, but also to habitats for bird life, as well as to a way of life that once existed in the rural parts of Singapore.

Check out his post here for more pictures of the Green Corridor and snippets of an almost-forgotten rural Singapore.