Hougang MRT Station

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Hougang MRT Station (NE14) is an underground station on the North East MRT Line, Singapore. It is located in the central part of Hougang New Town which is connected to the bus interchange and surrounding HDB flats and shopping centres.

This station has distinctive artwork titled Hands Up for Hougang by Seck Yok Ying, featuring handprints of 3000 people, from babies to grandmothers, foreign workers to community leaders.

[edit] Bomb hoax

There was a bomb hoax at this station on Aug 12 2005. Liu Tze Yuen, 42, a Chinese man was behind the Hougang bomb hoax which disrupted train services for hours on Aug 12 2005. He was also accused of putting boxes on public buses on July 7 and Aug 12 - the latter on the same day he is accused of carrying out the hoax at the Hougang MRT station.

On July 7, he was said to have placed a white package in a bus that he was travelling in. He did it at about noon on service 151 as he was travelling along Hougang Avenue 3. Tacked on the package was a note which said: 'If you see it, please don't touch and leave this bus.'

More than a month later, on Aug 12, he allegedly left another package wrapped heavily with scotch tape on service 143 while he was travelling along Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown. He was said to have done it at about 1.30pm - an hour after he allegedly left a similar package at the Hougang MRT station. The package was found to have only empty food cans and empty packets of instant noodles.

Liu allegedly intended the passengers on the two buses to believe that the packages contained explosive devices and was later sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail. ^[1]

[edit] Bus Services Nearby

The following bus services pass by the vicinity of the station:

Service	Between	And	Notes
SBS Transit Trunk Services
27	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Changi Airport PTB 1 & 2 Bus Terminal
51	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Jurong East Bus Interchange
62	Punggol Bus Interchange	Geylang Lorong 1 (loop)
72	Yio Chu Kang Bus Terminal	Tampines Bus Interchange
80	Sengkang Bus Interchange	HarbourFront Bus Interchange
82	Serangoon Bus Interchange	Punggol Road End (loop)
87	Sengkang Bus Interchange	Bedok Bus Interchange
89	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Changi Airport Cargo Complex (loop)
101	Serangoon Bus Interchange	Buangkok Link (loop)
113	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Lorong Ah Soo (loop)
119	Sengkang Bus Interchange	Hougang Street 21 (loop)
132	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Bukit Merah Bus Interchange
136	Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange	Punggol Bus Interchange
153	Bukit Merah Bus Interchange	Hougang Central Bus Interchange
161	Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange	Hougang Central Bus Interchange
165	Clementi Bus Interchange	Hougang Central Bus Interchange
SBS Transit Feeder Services
325	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Hougang Street 91 & Street 93 (loop)

[edit] References

1. ^ "Jobless man jailed for masterminding a series of bomb hoaxes", Channel NewsAsia, 18 October 2006.

Preceding station	Mass Rapid Transit Lines			Following station
Kovan		North East MRT Line		Buangkok

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