Tan Kah Kee MRT Station
| DT8 Tan Kah Kee MRT Station 陈嘉庚地铁站 தான் கா கீ Stesen MRT Tan Kah Kee Rapid transit |
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| Address | Bukit Timah Road Singapore |
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| Coordinates | 1°19′34″N 103°48′26″E / 1.326039°N 103.807169°E | ||||||||||
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| Connections | Bus, Taxi | ||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Island | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Closed | Opening 2015 | ||||||||||
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| Code | DT8 | ||||||||||
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Tan Kah Kee MRT station (DT8) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line Stage 2 in Singapore, formerly known as the Bukit Timah Line.The station will serve the Bukit Timah corridor just north of the junction between Bukit Timah Road and Duchess Avenue, and is within walking distance to several schools in the area, including Hwa Chong Institution, Nanyang Girls' High School, Raffles Girls' Primary School and National Junior College.[1]
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[edit] Naming controversy
As part of the Downtown Line Stage 2 LTA survey in July 2008, suggestions for the name of the station was open to public. Students from nearby Hwa Chong Institution suggested for the station to be named Hwa Chong as the station was to be built in Hwa Chong compounds. A Facebook group has been set up to promote their cause.[2] Despite this, LTA did not include Hwa Chong as one of the options for the public to select, reasoning that stations should not be named after landmarks or buildings. Instead, Watten (after nearby Watten Estate) and Kah Kee (after the founder of Hwa Chong Institution, Tan Kah Kee) were proposed by the LTA alongside the working name Duchess in October 2008.
It was believed the students and staff of Hwa Chong Institution wanted the option Kah Kee to be chosen and Facebook groups were used to promote their cause [3]
On June 16, 2009, LTA announced the station's name was to be Tan Kah Kee, marking the first time that a person's full name was used for the name of an MRT station and also marking the first time that a MRT station name that did not relate to where the station was located is used.
[edit] Station Layout
| L1 | Street Level | |
| B1 | Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter |
| B2 | Platform A | |
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Alignment of DTL and DTL 2 and maps of DTL 2 stations". Land Transport Authority. http://www.lta.gov.sg/images/20080715-DTL2.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
- ^ "Next stop on Downtown Line: Hwa Chong station?". The Straits Times. http://www.asiaone.com/Motoring/Motorworld/Story/A1Story20080903-85651.html. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
- ^ "Hwa Chong founder gets station". The Straits Times. http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_392000.html. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
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