New Bridge Road

New Bridge Road starts at the Coleman Bridge to the south of the Singapore River and extends into Chinatown within the Outram Planning Area, before joining with Eu Tong Sen Street and Kampong Bahru Road within the Bukit Merah Planning Area.

The road runs parallel to Eu Tong Sen Street throughout its entire length, but in the opposite direction.

With the opening of the North East Line, there were plans to revert the New Bridge Road portion between Clarke Quay and Upper Cross Street into one-way street in 2003 after 11 years, but this never come to fruition.

In 1876, it was renamed as Hong Lim Green in honour of Cheang Hong Lim, a wealthy Chinese Hokkien businessman and philanthropist who bought and donated the land to the government.

Hong Lim Green was then refurbished by the City Council of Singapore with new grass turf, a sand filled children's playground, a fountain, park facilities, and an open-air theatre was built at a cost of S$173,000, it was renamed to Hong Lim Park and officially reopened by S. Rajaratnam on 23 April 1960.

A row of shophouses on New Bridge Road.
New Bridge Road