Tras Street
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Tras Street (Chinese: 道拉实街) is a street located in Tanjong Pagar in the Outram Planning Area and Downtown Core in Singapore. The road connects Enggor Street and Gopeng Street to Cook Street, and is intersected by Wallich Street.
[edit] Etymology and history
The street name Tras Street dates from an 1898 municipal resolution to "use names of rivers and districts in the Malay Peninsula as being better adapted to the purpose [of naming streets] than the names of persons or families". Other Malayan place names which were assigned in the same year to new streets laid out on either side of Anson Road near Tanjong Pagar included Bernam Road, Enggor Street and Raub Street.
The Chinese name for this street, zu shi gong kou, takes after the temple on this street. It is known as cho su kong khau in Hokkien, which means "mouth of the Cho Su Kong temple".
[edit] References
- Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern University Press, ISBN 981-210-364-3
| edit | Roads and streets in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore |  |
| Bernam Street | Bukit Pasoh Road | Cantonment Road | Cook Street | Choon Guan Street | Craig Road | Duxton Hill | Duxton Road | Enggor Street | Gopeng Street | Hoe Chiang Road | Kee Seng Street | Keong Saik Road | Lim Teck Kim Road | Murray Street | Murray Terrace | Neil Road | Peck Seah Street | Tanjong Pagar Plaza | Tanjong Pagar Road | Teo Hong Road | Tras Street | Wallich Street | Yan Kit Road | ||
