Dakota station

Dakota MRT Station (CC8) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle Line.

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.

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	Platform A	Circle Line towards Template:Terminus 9 via Template:CCL via (→)
	Island platform
	Platform B	Circle Line towards Template:Terminus 8 (←) towards Template:Terminus 10 (←)

Exits

• A - Jalan Satu, Northlight Campus 1, Kong Hwa School, Mountbatten CC, Old Airport Road Food Centre
• B - Eton House International School, Broadrick Secondary School, Chung Cheng High School, Geylang Park Connector

Transport Services

Rail

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