Bartley MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Stage 3 of the Circle line, located on the boundary of

Serangoon Serangoon () is a planning area and residential town located in the North-East Region of Singapore. Serangoon is bordered by these planning areas – Sengkang to the north, Hougang to the east, Ang Mo Kio and Bishan to the west, as well as ...

and

Toa Payoh Toa Payoh (, ta, தோ பாயோ) is a planning area and matured residential town located in the northern part of the Central Region of Singapore. Toa Payoh planning area borders Bishan and Serangoon to the north, the Central Water Catc ...

planning areas,

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. Situated along Bartley Road near How Sun Estate,

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and Ramakrishna Mission Singapore, this station serves the residential estate along Serangoon Avenue 1 and the upcoming

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estate.

History

Bartley MRT Station was named after William Bartley, who was Acting Collector-General of Income Tax in the 1920s and President of the

Municipal Commission of Singapore The Municipal Commission of Singapore was a body created in 1887 by the British colonial government to replace the Municipal Committee that was created in June 1848. The role of the commission was to manage key services for the Town of Singapore, ...

between 1931 and 1946. Contract C851A for the construction and completion of Bartley MRT Station was awarded to Wan Soon Construction Pte Ltd at a sum of S$63.5 million in July 2003. The station was built in tandem with the

Outer Ring Road System The Outer Ring Road System, or more commonly known as ORRS, is a network of major arterial roads in Singapore that forms a ring road through the towns along the city fringe. The ORRS is a semi-expressway, just like the West Coast Highway. Sinc ...

project which consists of extending Bartley Road to Eunos Road via a viaduct over the part of the underground site of the

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. On 13 August 2003, a section of Bartley Road was realigned for the construction of the station. As part of the project, Upper Paya Lebar Road was rebuilt and opened on 17 January 2010 as an underpass heading towards MacPherson and

Paya Lebar Paya Lebar is a planning area located in the East Region of Singapore, bordered by Hougang to the west, Sengkang to the northwest, Tampines to the east, Bedok to the south and Pasir Ris to the north. As part of the Singapore Urban Redevelopment ...

. The station was first opened on 28 May 2009 along with the rest of Stage 3 of the Circle line. Before the opening of the station, the

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(SCDF) conducted the third Shelter Open House at this station on 4 April 2009, together with

Bishan Bishan most commonly refers to Bishan, Singapore, a residential town in Singapore's Central Region, and its associated places. Bishan may also refer to: Places Singapore * Bishan, Singapore ** Bishan MRT station, a MRT interchange station along t ...

and Lorong Chuan stations. It also held an open house for the SMRT staff on 1 May 2009. The station was the eastern terminus for the Circle line until Stages 1 and 2 to

Dhoby Ghaut Dhoby Ghaut () is a place in Singapore that often refers to the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, a major interchange station on Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit network connecting the North-South Line, North East Line, and the Circle Line. As a place, ...

opened on 17 April 2010.

Art in Transit

The art piece at this station, which called ''The Coin Mat'', done by Jane Lee, consists of a mural made up of 160,000 one-cent coins embedded in glass.

References

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