About 45 per cent of heavy vehicle drivers who caused accidents in the last five years were foreigners, said Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs Amrin Amin.
To cope with heavy traffic during the morning rush hour, a new automated system that adjusts the number of lanes in each direction was built on the link to Jurong Island.
The second phase of a project to install noise barriers along elevated MRT tracks will be pushed back by three years, and finished in 2022 instead of 2019.
The move addresses a perennial grouse of commuters, both local and foreign, who say they never quite know how metered fares, with their dizzying array of flag-down rates and surcharges, work.