Botanic Gardens MRT Station

Botanic Gardens MRT Station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle Line and the Downtown Line in 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.

The Downtown Line station was designed by AEP Consultants and Geoconsult Asia and was constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors.

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

This station attracts number of visitors to Singapore Botanic Gardens.

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.

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. 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.

Station layout

L2	Overhead Bridge	Dunearn Road
L1	Street Level	Singapore Botanic Gardens, Serene Centre, Cluny Court
	Mezzanine
B1	Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter, Shops, Transfer Linkway
B2	Platform 1	Circle Line towards HarbourFront via Farrer Road (→)
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Circle Line towards Dhoby Ghaut or Marina Bay via Caldecott (←)
B3	Platform 3	Downtown Line towards Chinatown via Stevens (→)
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 4	Downtown Line towards Bukit Panjang via Hwa Chong (←)

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

Destination	First Train				Last Train
	Mon - Sat		Sunday & Public Holiday		Daily
Circle Line
to Dhoby Ghaut	5.45am		6.06am		11.25pm
to HarbourFront	5.32am		5.57am		11.27pm
to Pasir Panjang	-		-		11.57pm
to Mountbatten	-		-		12.02am
to one-north	-		-		12.13am
to Bartley	-		-		12.26am

External links

• Template:Official website

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