Botanic Gardens MRT Station

CC19  DT9  Botanic Gardens 植物园 பூ மலை Kebun Bunga
Rapid transit
Botanic Gardens Platform B on the Downtown Line.
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
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	3
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	CC19  DT9
History
Opened	8 October 2011 (Circle Line) 27 December 2015 (Downtown Line)
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Adam
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 Stevens towards Chinatown
Location

The Art-in-Transit of the Downtown Line section of Botanic Gardens.

Entrance to Botanic Gardens MRT station in 2011, a few weeks before the station officially opened to the public.

Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the Circle Line and Downtown Line in Tanglin, Singapore.

This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens at the intersection of Bukit Timah Road and Cluny Park 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. As the distance between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms is relatively long, it has travelators, the fourth station after Dhoby Ghaut, Serangoon and Bugis to have travelators within the paid area.

Botanic Gardens station is the only MRT station in Singapore to have an official Malay name.

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 the Circle Line section 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.

The Downtown Line section features the artwork "What is a Tree?" by Shirley Soh. Various vistas of the Tembusu on the front lawn of the Botanic Gardens are created to pose the ontological questions.

Station layout

Exits

• A: Adam Food Centre, Cluny Court, French Embassy, Serene Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens
• B: NUS Faculty of Law, MOE Co-Curricular Activities Branch, Singapore Botanic Gardens

Transport connections

Rail

References

External links

• Official website