Dakota station

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Dakota MRT Station (CC8) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle Line. The livery of the station concourse is green and white.

History

The construction of Dakota and the tracks led to the closure of the stretch of Old Airport Road between Cassia Link and Guillemard Camp Road in March 2006. Instead, Jalan Tiga was extended to Guillemard Road, opening up a traffic junction there. In addition, the old Guillemard Camp Road was widened to provide public buses enough space to drive through. Despite the widening of the road, there have been several accidents occurring near the T-junction of Guillemard Road and Guillemard Camp Road. The closed stretch of Old Airport Road has since re-opened on 29 December 2008 at 5am.[1]

It is named after the Dakota DC-3 aircraft that commonly used to land at the nearby Kallang Airport when it was still in commercial use.

Art in Transit

The artwork featured in this station is Little things, little stories by A Dose of Light (Ang Song Nian and Zhao Renhui). This artwork narrates an open-ended story of Dakota Crescent through the objects inside residents’ homes, along the HDB flat corridors and shared outdoor spaces which attempt to chronicle a visual history and narrative of the space before the station is built.

Layout

L1 Street Level
B1 Concourse Faregates, General Ticketing Machines, Passenger Service Centre
B2
Platforms
Platform A Circle Line towards [[HarbourFront MRT Station|Template:Code colour/CCLTemplate:Code colour/NEL HarbourFront]] via [[Bishan MRT Station|Template:Code colour/CCLTemplate:Code colour/NSL Bishan]] (→)
Island platform, Doors will open on the right
Platform B Circle Line towards [[Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station|Template:Code colour/CCLTemplate:Code colour/NSLTemplate:Code colour/NEL Dhoby Ghaut]] or [[Marina Bay MRT Station|Template:Code colour/CCLTemplate:Code colour/NSL Marina Bay]] (←)

Exits

  • A : Eton House International School, Northlight Campus 1, Chung Cheng High School, Mountbatten CC
  • B : Eton House International School, Broadrrick Secondary School, Old Airport Road Food Centre

Rail Service

Destination First Train Last Train
Mon − Fri Sat Sun & P.H. Daily
colspan="5" style="background-color:Template:Line colour/CCL;color:white; height:20px"|Circle Line
to CC1 Dhoby Ghaut 5.42am 5.42am 6.09am 11.51pm
to CC7 Mountbatten −− −− −− 12.28am
to CC29 HarbourFront 5.37am 5.37am 6.04am 11.01pm
to CC26 Pasir Panjang −− −− −− 11.32pm
to CC23 one-north −− −− −− 11.48pm
to CC17 Caldecott −− −− −− 12.15am
to CC11 Tai Seng −− −− −− 12.23am

References

  1. "News Releases: Re-Opening Of Old Airport Road". Land Transport Authority. Retrieved 3 Jan 2009

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