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App News·15 Jul 2026

Why Singapore's expressway traffic cameras disappeared

If you've used a Singapore traffic camera app before, you probably remember flipping through dozens of expressway cameras — PIE, CTE, AYE, and the rest — to see what the road ahead looked like. As of 30 June 2026, that's gone.

LTA discontinued its general expressway camera image feeds. It wasn't a bug, a rate limit, or a regional restriction — it's a real, permanent change on LTA's side, confirmed directly against onemotoring.lta.gov.sg. The Traffic-Imagesv2 API that used to return images for every expressway gantry now only returns cameras for three locations:

  • Woodlands Checkpoint
  • Tuas Checkpoint
  • Sentosa Gateway

That's 8 cameras in total, down from the full expressway network this app originally shipped with. We rebuilt around that reality rather than fight it — those three crossings now get full treatment: live cameras, congestion badges computed from LTA's speed-band data, and a typical-congestion heatmap built from logged history.

One thing that didn't change: the underlying speed-band data (TrafficSpeedBands) that powers the congestion badges. LTA only pulled the camera images — the live congestion numbers everywhere in this app, including the Route Planner's congestion overlay, are unaffected.

If you're planning a route through the CBD or an expressway that used to have a camera, you won't get a live snapshot of it anymore — but you'll still get live congestion coloring on the Route Planner, sourced from the same speed-band feed LTA never turned off.