Tan Kah Kee MRT Station
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DT8
Tan Kah Kee 陈嘉庚 டான் கா கீ Tan Kah Kee |
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Downtown Line platforms of Tan Kah Kee MRT Station
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| Location | 651 Bukit Timah Road Singapore 266268 |
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| Coordinates | 1°19′34″N 103°48′26″E / 1.326039°N 103.807169°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | SBS Transit DTL | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | Island | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | DT8 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 27 December 2015 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Duchess | ||||||||||
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Tan Kah Kee MRT Station (DT8) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Bukit Timah, Singapore. The station serves the Bukit Timah corridor just north of the junction between Bukit Timah Road and Duchess Avenue, and is within walking distance to several schools in the area, including Hwa Chong Institution, Nanyang Girls' High School, Raffles Girls' Primary School, Methodist Girls' School and National Junior College.
The station is named after Tan Kah Kee.
As part of the Downtown Line Stage 2 land Transport Authority (LTA) survey in July 2008, suggestions for the name of the station was open to public. Students from nearby Hwa Chong Institution suggested for the station to be named Hwa Chong as the station was to be built in Hwa Chong compounds. A Facebook group has been set up to promote their cause. Despite this, LTA did not include Hwa Chong as one of the options for the public to select, reasoning that stations should not be named after landmarks or buildings. Instead, Watten (after nearby Watten Estate) and Kah Kee (after the founder of Hwa Chong Institution, Tan Kah Kee) were proposed by the LTA alongside the working name Duchess in October 2008.
It was believed the students and staff of Hwa Chong Institution wanted the option Kah Kee to be chosen and Facebook groups were used to promote their cause.
On June 16, 2009, LTA announced the station's name was to be Tan Kah Kee, marking the first time that a person's full name is used for the name of an MRT station and also marking the first time that a MRT station name does not relate to where the station is located.
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