Botanic Gardens MRT station

Botanic Gardens MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the Downtown line and Circle line in Tanglin, Singapore, located at the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Cluny Park Road.

Not to be confused with Gardens by the Bay MRT station.

 CC19  DT9 
Botanic Gardens
植物园
பூ மலை
Kebun Bunga
Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange
Exit A of the station near the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.
General information
Location100 Cluny Park Road
Singapore 257494 (CCL)
491 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259777 (DTL)
Coordinates1°19′21″N 103°48′55″E
Operated bySMRT Trains Ltd (SMRT Corporation) (Circle line)
SBS Transit DTL Pte Ltd (ComfortDelGro Corporation) (Downtown line)
Line(s)
  Circle Line
  Downtown Line
Platforms4 (2 island platforms)
Tracks4
ConnectionsBus, Taxi
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Platform levels2
AccessibleYes
History
Opened8 October 2011 (2011-10-08) (Circle line)
27 December 2015 (2015-12-27) (Downtown line)
ElectrifiedYes
Previous namesAdam, Old University, Cluny Road[1][2]
Services
Preceding station Mass Rapid Transit Following station
Caldecott
towards Dhoby Ghaut or Marina Bay
 Circle Line Farrer Road
towards HarbourFront
Bukit Brown
towards Dhoby Ghaut or Marina Bay
 Circle Line
Future service
Tan Kah Kee
towards Bukit Panjang
 Downtown Line Stevens
towards Expo
Location
Singapore MRT/LRT system map
Singapore MRT/LRT system map
Botanic Gardens
Botanic Gardens station in Singapore

The station is located at the northwestern corner of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, which it was named after. It is the nearest MRT station to the Bukit Timah campus of the National University of Singapore. As Bukit Brown MRT station is currently non-operational, the section of tracks between Botanic Gardens station and Caldecott MRT station is the longest between any two stations on the Circle line.

History

The station was first announced as Adam station when the Circle Line (CCL) Stages 4 and 5 stations were revealed in 2003.[3][4] The contract for the construction and completion of Adam and Farrer stations (including 6.3 kilometres (250,000,000 mils) of twin bored tunnels was awarded to Taisei Corporation for approximately S$391 million in July 2004.[5]

Public consultation of the station began in January 2006 and only two names were selected - Botanic Gardens and Cluny Road. Botanic Gardens was eventually selected because this station also connects to the popular UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cluny Road was also selected because it was around the location of a former railway station "Cluny Road" that closed down in 1930s. On 12 September that year, the final name of Botanic Gardens was chosen due to it being a popular offered choice by those who polled.[1]

Construction of the Circle line station began on 10 March 2005. It had acquired some of the Botanic Gardens, but restored on 10 March 2010. The station opened on 8 October 2011.[6][7]

Downtown line
Botanic Gardens DTL Platform

The station was first announced to be an interchange station with the DTL when the DTL2 (Downtown line Stage 2) stations were unveiled on 15 July 2008.[8] Contract 919 for the design and construction of Stevens station and associated tunnels was awarded to Sembawang Engineers and Constructors Pte Ltd at an approximate value of S$378.2 million (US$260.02 million) in July 2009. The contract also includes the construction of the adjacent Stevens station. Construction of the station was scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2009 and targeted to complete by 2015.[9] 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 was the first casualty related case in the construction of the Downtown line.[10] The station opened on 27 December 2015 along with the other DTL2 stations.[11][12]

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.[13] 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.[14]

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.[14]

  • Circle Line Platform Botanic Gardens
    Circle Line Platform Botanic Gardens

References
  1. "FINALISED NAMES FOR CIRCLE LINE (CCL) STAGES 4&5 STATIONS". www.lta.gov.sg. Archived from the original on 18 December 2006.
  2. "Station Names For Circle Line Stages 4 And 5". www.lta.gov.sg. 7 November 2005. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010.
  3. "Completing the Circle via Holland V". Today. 13 December 2003. Archived from the original on 6 March 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  4. "Stages 4 & 5 of Circle Line". www.lta.gov.sg. 16 November 2005. Archived from the original on 17 September 2004. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  5. "Award Of Contract For Construction And Completion Of Adam And Farrer Stations". www.lta.gov.sg. 1 July 2004. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012.
  6. "Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the Circle Line Opening Ceremony on 7 Oct 2011". www.mot.gov.sg. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  7. "Circle Line from Marymount to HarbourFront to open". www.mot.gov.sg. Archived from the original on 19 November 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  8. "Downtown Line 2 Station Sites Named". www.lta.gov.sg. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  9. "Award of Contract 919 - Stations and Tunnels at Botanic Gardens and Stevens | Press Room | Land Transport Authority". www.lta.gov.sg. 1 July 2009. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016.
  10. Lim, Paul (11 March 2012). "Bangladeshi worker killed after concrete slab falls on him". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  11. "Thumbs Up For Downtown Line's Earlier Opening". The Straits Times. 3 October 2014. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  12. "LTA | News Room | News Releases | Downtown Line 2 is Coming to Town….this December". www.lta.gov.sg. Archived from the original on 4 September 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  13. "Annex B: Summary of CCL Art-in-Transit Concepts" (PDF). Land Transport Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  14. Massot, Gilles (7 April 2020). "Getting Around - Public Transport - A Better Public Transport Experience - Art in Transit". LTA. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

Bibliography
  • Cheong, Colin (2012). The Circle Line: Linking All Lines. Singapore: Land Transport Authority. ISBN 978-981-4342-02-5.
  • Feng, Zengkun (2017). Downtown Line: Soaring to new heights. Singapore: Straits Times Press Pte Ltd. ISBN 978-981-4747-66-0. OCLC 1003852882.
  • Zhuang, Justin (2013). Art in transit : Circle Line MRT. Singapore: Land Transport Authority. ISBN 978-981-07-4982-8. OCLC 854958677.
  • Zhuang, Justin; Soh, Darren (2022). Art in transit: Downtown Line Singapore. Singapore: Land Transport Authority. ISBN 978-981-18-3967-2. OCLC 1342054525.
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