Botanic Gardens MRT Station

CC19  DT9  Botanic Gardens MRT Station 植物园地铁站 பூ மலை Stesen MRT Botanic Gardens
Rapid transit
Entrance to Botanic Gardens MRT station.
Location	100 Cluny Park Road Singapore 257494
Coordinates	1°19′21″N 103°48′55″E / 1.322519°N 103.815406°E / 1.322519; 103.815406
Operated by	SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation) (Circle Line) SBS Transit DTL (Downtown Line)
Line(s)	Circle Line   Downtown Line
Platforms	Island
Tracks	4 (2 U/C)
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	3 (1 U/C)
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	CC19  DT9
History
Opened	8 October 2011 (Circle Line) Q1 2016 (Downtown Line)
Services
Preceding station   Mass Rapid Transit   Following station Caldecott towards Dhoby Ghaut Circle Line Farrer Road towards HarbourFront Bukit Brown towards Dhoby Ghaut Circle Line (planned) Tan Kah Kee towards Bukit Panjang Downtown Line Stage 2 (Under Testing) Stevens towards Expo Downtown Line Future service Stevens towards Sungei Bedok
Location

Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle Line and also the future 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.

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 this station 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.

Station layout

Exits

There is only one exit at Botanic Gardens (A).

Transport connections

Rail

References

External links

• Official website