Bedok MRT station explained

Type:Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station
Address:315 New Upper Changi Road
Singapore 467347
Other:Bedok Bus Interchange, Taxi
Structure:Elevated
Platform:2 (1 island platform)
Levels:1
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes (Bedok Mall)
Bicycle:Yes
Passengers:30,760 per day[1]
Pass Year:June 2024
Electrified:Yes
Accessible:Yes
Operator:SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation)
Former:Chai Chee
Map Type:Singapore Rail
Map Dot Label:Bedok
Map Alt:Singapore MRT/LRT system map
Map Size:300px

Bedok MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West Line in Bedok, Singapore. Located at the town centre of Bedok, this station is built on a traffic island in the middle of New Upper Changi Road. It is one of the most crowded MRT stations in eastern Singapore. Despite the close proximity of the 3 MRT stations to one another, Bedok MRT Station (East–West MRT line), Bedok North MRT station (Downtown MRT line) and Bedok South MRT station (Thomson–East Coast MRT line) are not connected continuously.

Bedok MRT station is connected to Bedok Bus Interchange. It has many amenities close by such as Bedok Mall, Bedok Point, Djitsun Mall Bedok, Bedok Interchange Hawker Centre, Heartbeat@Bedok and Bedok Town Square.

In between here and Kembangan MRT station, there is a tunnel but no underground stations in between.

History

The contract for the construction of this station, along with Kembangan station, was awarded to Ohbayashi Corporation in January 1986.[2]

Bedok MRT station opened on 4 November 1989 along with all other EWL stations from Bugis to Tanah Merah.[3] [4]

Like many above-ground MRT stations, the station was initially built without platform screen doors to prevent passengers from falling off the platform and onto the train tracks. Installation of platform screen doors started on 4 November 2010 and started operations on 11 January 2011 along with Paya Lebar station as a safety precaution, followed by HVLS fans that subsequently began operations on 26 June 2012.[5] [6]

Station Layout

This MRT station comprises of 2 elevated platforms in an Island Platform arrangement, where passengers heading towards Tanah Merah, Changi Airport and Pasir Ris will board from Platform A and heading towards the city, Paya Lebar, City Hall, Joo Koon and Tuas Link will board from Platform B. [7]

L2Platform A
Eastbound
Towards → Next Station:
(Passengers heading towards may alight at the next station)
Island platform | Platform Doors will open on the right |-|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width=100|Platform B
Westbound
| style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width="500" |Towards ← Next Station: |-| rowspan="2" style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" |L1|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;"|Concourse|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;"|Faregates, Ticketing Service Kiosks, Passenger Service Centre, Retail Shops and SimplyGo Ticket Office|-|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width=100 valign=top|Street Level|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width=500 valign=top|Bedok Bus Interchange, Bus stops, Taxi stand, pick-up/drop-off point and Station exits|-|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width=50 valign=top|B1|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width=100 valign=top|Underpass|style="border-bottom:solid 1px grey;" width=500 valign=top|Public Underpass towards New Upper Changi Road or Bedok Mall|}

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Land Transport DataMall . mytransport.sg . . 14 August 2024 . 14 August 2024 . https://archive.ph/YCbCx . live.
  2. News: 14 January 1986 . MRTC awards two jobs on eastern line . 27 June 2024 . The Business Times . 2.
  3. News: Eager wait for start of MRTs eastern line. Dhaliwal. Rav. 1 November 1989. The Straits Times. 22.
  4. News: MRT eastern line to start operating on Nov 18. 4 August 1989. The Business Times. 3.
  5. News: Enhancing Connectivity and Comfort for Commuters . Land Transport Authority . 13 October 2011 . 6 July 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20121225102501/http://app.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=764a0kf76om2osu186igm3tbeku96px4ysg006n6qv5hoiq8ep . 25 December 2012 . dmy-all .
  6. Web site: Above-ground MRT stations to have platform screen doors by 2012 . Channel NewsAsia . 26 January 2008 . 1 February 2012 . Wong, Siew Ying . dead . https://archive.today/20120730183552/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/324989/1/.html . 30 July 2012 .
  7. Web site: PMPermalink . Doreen Lee13 May 2019 at 5:24 . 2018-01-31 . Bedok MRT Station Land Transport Guru . 2024-08-18 . en-US.