Botanic Gardens MRT Station
| CC19 DT9 Botanic Gardens MRT Station 植物园地铁站 பூ மலை Stesen MRT Botanic Gardens Rapid transit |
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 Entrance to Botanic Gardens Station |
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| Address | 100 Cluny Park Road Singapore 257494 |
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| Coordinates | 1°19′21″N 103°48′55″E / 1.322519°N 103.815406°E | |||||||||||||||
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| Connections | Bus, Taxi | |||||||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | |||||||||||||||
| Levels | 3 (1 U/C) | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Island | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 (2 U/C) | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 8 October 2011 (Circle Line) | |||||||||||||||
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| Code | CC19 / DT9 | |||||||||||||||
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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. It is operated by SMRT Corporation on the Circle Line and by SBS Transit on the Downtown Line. This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens along Bukit Timah Road, hence its name. It is also near the NUS Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre. As the Bukit Brown MRT 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.
[edit] 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.[1] 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.
[edit] Station layout
| L2 | Overhead Bridge | Dunearn Road |
| L1 | Street Level | Singapore Botanic Gardens, Serene Centre, Cluny Court |
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| B1 | Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter, Shops, Transfer Linkway |
| B2 | Platform A | Circle Line towards CC29 NE1 HarbourFront (→) |
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| Platform B Alternate Services |
Circle Line towards CC1 NS24 NE6 Dhoby Ghaut (←) Circle Line towards CE2 NS27 Marina Bay (←) |
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| B3 | Platform A | Downtown Line (under construction) |
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| Platform B | Downtown Line (under construction) |
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[edit] References
- ^ "Annex B: Summary of CCL Art-in-Transit Concepts". Land Transport Authority. http://www.lta.gov.sg/images/News%20Release%20CCL%20AIT%20Annex%20B.pdf. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
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