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.

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
Location	100 Cluny Park Road Singapore 257494 (CCL) 491 Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259777 (DTL)
Coordinates	1°19′21″N 103°48′55″E
Operated by	SMRT Trains Ltd (SMRT Corporation) (Circle line) SBS Transit DTL Pte Ltd (ComfortDelGro Corporation) (Downtown line)
Line(s)	Circle Line   Downtown Line
Platforms	4 (2 island platforms)
Tracks	4
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	8 October 2011; 10 years ago (2011-10-08) (Circle line) 27 December 2015; 6 years ago (2015-12-27) (Downtown line)
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Adam, Old University, Cluny Road[1][2]
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 Future service Tan Kah Kee towards Bukit Panjang Downtown Line Stevens towards Expo
Location
Botanic Gardens Botanic Gardens station in Singapore

The station is located at the northwestern corner of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, where 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

Prior to the opening of the station, it was named Adam. 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.[3]

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.

Downtown line

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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

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.[7]

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  Circle Line Platform Botanic Gardens

References

External links

• Media related to Botanic Gardens MRT Station at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website