Botanic Gardens MRT Station 4.33

Botanic Gardens MRT Station 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.The Downtown Line station was designed by AEP Consultants and Geoconsult Asia and was constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors.Botanic Gardens station is one of the two MRT stations in Singapore to have an official Malay name. The other station is the future Gardens by the Bay MRT Station.HistoryCasualty incidentOn 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.