ModerateEast
Eastern Coastal Loop
The east side’s signature 42 km PCN loop: East Coast Park, Changi Beach, Pasir Ris and Bedok Reservoir in one ride.
Tanah Merah Coastal Road
The east coast’s time-trial strip: a long, flat, windswept coastal road where roadies go to ride fast.
Moderate
East Singapore
Road ride
~24 km out and back
About this route
TMCR, as every local cyclist calls it, is a long ribbon of flat coastal road running from Changi Beach down past Changi Bay Point, with no junctions to speak of, big sky, open sea on one side. It is where Singapore’s road cyclists do their time-trial efforts, and where the Round Island Route’s newest coastal connector now runs alongside.
The catch is exposure: there is essentially no shelter, and the sea breeze can be a punishing headwind one way and a glorious tailwind back. Carry more water than you think you need. Leisure riders can use the parallel park connector and enjoy the same coastline at half the pace.
Highlights
Uninterrupted flat kilometresChangi Bay Point lookoutParallel PCN for casual ridersPerfect for: Road cyclists, TT and pace-line efforts, sunrise sea views
- Check the wind direction before deciding which way to ride the hard effort: the return leg feels twice as easy with a tailwind.
Route at a glance
| Distance | ~24 km out and back |
|---|---|
| Time | 1–1.5 hrs |
| Difficulty | Moderate |
| Ride type | Road |
| Surface | Road with parallel park connector |
| Terrain | Flat, exposed, often windy |
| Start point | Changi Beach Park (Carpark 6/7 end) |
| Getting there | Tanah Merah MRT, then bus to Changi Village |
Open Route in Google Maps needs nothing extra. It opens the Maps app (or website) with the whole route already plotted as pins, ready to cycle. The GPX download is useful if you navigate with an app like Komoot or Strava, or a Garmin/Wahoo bike computer. On longer routes Google may smooth a corner or two, since it draws its own path between the pins; the map below shows our fuller route line.
On the map
Tanah Merah Coastal Road Route Map
Dashed line shows the approximate route corridor; the marker is the start point at Changi Beach Park (Carpark 6/7 end).
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