Changi Airport Station
 CG2 Changi Airport 樟宜机场 சாங்கி விமானநிலையம் Changi Airport |
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Changi Airport station platform level.
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| Location | 70 Airport Boulevard Singapore 819661 |
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| Coordinates | 1°21′26.54″N 103°59′19.81″E / 1.3573722°N 103.9888361°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation) | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | Island | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 3 (excluding street level) | ||||||||||
| Parking | Yes (Changi Airport) | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes (Changi Airport) | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | CG2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 27 February 2002 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
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Changi Airport MRT station (CG2) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West Line in Changi, Singapore. The station is located within the Singapore Changi Airport, hence its name.
This station is one of the three stations on the Changi Airport Branch Line of the East West Line; the other two being Tanah Merah MRT station and Expo MRT station. Changi Airport station is the eastern terminus of this branch line, and the easternmost station on the MRT network.
Changi Airport station is the only MRT station to be located within the planning area of Changi.
Before the MRT line, Changi Airport had been operating with no rail link and with full reliance on taxi and bus connections ever since the airport began operations in 1981. This has proven effective given the short 20 kilometre distance to the city via the East Coast Parkway and affordability of taxis and buses. Public buses instead link commuters to nearby MRT stations at Bedok, Tampines and Pasir Ris. Therefore, there were previously unsuccessful attempts to propose an extension to Changi Airport.
The idea of extending the Mass Rapid Transit system to Changi Airport was reconsidered when Terminal 3 was being built. The earlier plans had long been made for a new line branching off from the existing East West Line at Tanah Merah, with some conceptual plans showing a tentative route alignment up to the airport along Airport Boulevard, continuing beyond the airport to Changi Point, before turning southwest back towards the city along the east coast of the island. When the extension to the airport was finally announced, however, the route alignment showed a deviation from previous plans. The final plan involved building only the first two stations, namely Expo, and the Changi Airport station, the underground station built between Terminal 2 and Terminal 3. The alignment of the station at the airport has been switched perpendicularly to an east–west direction, such that the station leads to two of the terminals directly from either end of the station.
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