{
  "id": 15843088,
  "title": "CRL tunnelling disruption at Ang Mo Kio to bring 18 months of traffic changes from Nov 14",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/crl-tunnelling-disruption-at-ang-mo-kio-to-bring-18-months-of-traffic",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T01:30:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Independent Singapore",
    "slug": "the-independent-singapore",
    "url": "https://theindependent.sg/crl-tunnelling-disruption-at-ang-mo-kio-to-bring-18-months-of-traffic-changes-from-nov-14"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has suspended tunnelling works for the Cross Island Line’s Ang Mo Kio station after discovering extensive underground ground anchors that caused repeated damage to the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) and required 100 cutterhead interventions between May and July 2026, extracting approximately 800kg of wire ropes from the machine. To facilitate recovery…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}