Botanic Gardens MRT Station
CC19 DT9 Botanic Gardens MRT Station 植物园地铁站 பூ மலை Stesen MRT Kebun Bunga | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 The platform of the Downtown Line. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |
100 Cluny Park Road Singapore 257494 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 1°19′21″N 103°48′55″E / 1.322519°N 103.815406°E | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by |
SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation) (Circle Line) SBS Transit DTL (Downtown Line) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | Island | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | CC19 DT9 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened |
8 October 2011 (Circle Line) 27 December 2015 (Downtown Line) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Adam | |||||||||||||||||||
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Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle Line and Downtown Line in Singapore. This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens along Bukit Timah Road, hence its name. It is also near the National University of Singapore Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre. As the Bukit Brown station will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Botanic Gardens and Caldecott is the longest on the Circle Line. As the distance between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms is relatively long, it has travelators, the fourth station after Dhoby Ghaut, Serangoon and Bugis to have travelators within the paid area.
History
Casualty incident
On 11 March 2012, a worker was killed at a site near the Botanic Gardens, beside the contractor's site office after a concrete slab fell on him. 35-year-old Masud Al Mamun was operating an excavator deep in the ground when the slab fell on him. Rescuers had to use a breaking tool kit to break a portion of the concrete slab. It took nearly five hours to reach the man lying motionless on the ground. This is the first casualty related case in the construction of the Downtown Line.[1]
Art in Transit
The artwork featured in the Circle Line section under the Art in Transit programme is Aquatic Fauna No. 1 by Kai Lam and Chua Chye Teck. The mural, displayed above the platform doors, contains symbolic imageries of water and aquatic animals using the Chinese paper cutting technique.[2] The "fauna" mural not only highlights the station's proximity to the Botanic Gardens, but also complements the 2-storey high water-cascading wall in the station, the first to have such a feature within the station.
The Downtown Line section features the artwork "What is a Tree?" by Shirley Soh. Various vistas of the Tembusu on the front lawn of the Botanic Gardens are created to pose the ontological questions.
Station layout
| L2 | Overhead Bridge | Dunearn Road |
| L1 | Street Level | Singapore Botanic Gardens, Serene Centre, Cluny Court |
| Mezzanine | Transfer Linkway and Travellators between Circle and Downtown Line Concourses | |
| B1 | Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter, Shops, Transfer Linkway |
| B2 | Platform B | Circle Line towards CC29 NE1 HarbourFront via CC20 Farrer Road (→) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform A | Circle Line towards CC1 NS24 NE6 Dhoby Ghaut via CC17 TE9 Caldecott (←) (No service to CC18 Bukit Brown) | |
| B3 | Platform B | Downtown Line towards DT19 NE4 Chinatown via DT10 TE11 Stevens (→) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform A | Downtown Line towards DT1 BP6 Bukit Panjang via DT8 Tan Kah Kee (←) | |
Exits
- A: Adam Food Centre, Chony Court, French Embassy, Serene Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens
- B: NUS Faculty of Law, MOE Co-Curricular Activities Branch, Singapore Botanic Gardens
Transport connections
Rail
| Destination | First Train | Last Train | ||||
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| Mon - Sat | Sunday & Public Holiday | Daily | ||||
| Circle Line | ||||||
| to CC1 Dhoby Ghaut | 5.45am | 6.06am | 11.25pm | |||
| to CC29 HarbourFront | 5.32am | 5.57am | 11.27pm | |||
| to CC26 Pasir Panjang | - | - | 11.57pm | |||
| to CC7 Mountbatten | - | - | 12.02am | |||
| to CC23 one-north | - | - | 12.13am | |||
| to CC12 Bartley | - | - | 12.26am | |||
| Downtown Line | ||||||
| to DT1 Bukit Panjang | 6.00am | 6.21am | 12.31am | |||
| to DT19 Chinatown | 5.46am | 6.06am | 11.51pm | |||
References
- ↑ Lim, Paul (11 March 2012). "Bangladeshi worker killed after concrete slab falls on him". AsiaOne. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ↑ "Annex B: Summary of CCL Art-in-Transit Concepts" (PDF). Land Transport Authority. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
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