Bukit Panjang MRT Station

Bukit Panjang MRT/LRT Station (BP6/DT1) is a Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the Downtown Line located at the boundary of Bukit Panjang, Bukit Batok and Choa Chu Kang planning areas, Singapore, primarily serving Bukit Panjang New Town. It is the western terminus of the Downtown Line, with the line continuing northwards as a service route to Gali Batu Depot. The station will be integrated with the future redeveloped Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange in 2017.

The MRT station is connected to the LRT station via a bridge at the LRT station's mezzanine level. A short distance away from the interchange station is Bukit Panjang Plaza and Junction 10.

There is no paid link between the Bukit Panjang LRT Line and Downtown line, meaning commuters are required to tap out and then tap in again when transferring lines. However, there will not be any extra fare charged as long as the transfer is made within 15 minutes.

History
10,000 regular peak-hour commuters were stranded on the morning of 30 August 2001 because the LRT service was still being repaired after a power failure on the evening of 29 August 2001. An LRT train had hit a switch beam at the Bukit Panjang station at about 5.40 pm on 29 August, resulting in the power failure. It was some 16 hours later before the service resumed at 10.15 am later that day.

On 15 July 2008, when the precise station locations were revealed, the working name of the station was revealed as Petir MRT Station, named after Petir Road, but led to concerns that there would be confusion with Petir, which the station was not near to, despite similar names used. After a series of public polling by the Land Transport Authority, on 16 June 2009, the finalized station name was revealed to be Bukit Panjang MRT Station.

The location of the station and the lack of a connection to the LRT system caused local Members of Parliament to request a review, but was rejected by the LTA saying that it would be a "technical constraint" to force the line to curve sharply within a short distance to allow for a normal interchange station to be built. It may be thought that this is due to the different operators each operating the Bukit Panjang LRT and Downtown Line, thus the name 'Bukit Panjang' was to be supposedly used twice in the MRT system map instead of being an interchange. However, it added that a covered linkway would be built between Bukit Panjang MRT station and Bukit Panjang LRT station, and hinted that there may be new developments on the reserve site between the two stations. Since then, the station has been marked as an interchange station, with the Bukit Panjang LRT Line, on the MRT System map.

Woodlands Road sinkhole incident
Excavation works for the Downtown Line 2 caused a massive sinkhole on Woodlands Road on 16 March 2013. The construction destabilised the soil, which ruptured an underground water pipe. The rupture which was as wide as one of the road's lanes, appeared near West View Primary School, next to where construction work for Downtown Line 2 is being carried out.

Fire at Downtown MRT Line construction
A fire broke out at a construction site for the Downtown Line in the early hours of Apr 9 2014. No injuries were reported and the fire was put out in 30 minutes. Thick smoke could be seen from the work site in Bukit Panjang, near shopping mall Junction 10.

LRT crossovers
After stopping at Bukit Panjang, services towards Senja or Petir will split up. Services A and C utilise the lower track towards Senja; Service B utilises the higher track towards Petir.

Art in Transit
The Downtown Line platforms feature "Punctum of the Long Hills" by John Clang, an artwork depicting the great progress Singapore has made over the years.

Bukit Panjang LRT

 * A: Downtown Line, Hillion Mall (U/C, by 2016), Hillion Residences (U/C, by 2016), Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange (U/C, by 2017), Bukit Panjang Public Library, Bukit Panjang Plaza
 * B: Petir Road, Sri Murugan Hill Temple
 * C: Downtown Line (via Transfer Linkway Bridge)
 * D: Hillion Mall (U/C, by 2016), Hillion Residences (U/C, by 2016), Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange (U/C, by 2017)

Downtown Line

 * A1 & A2: Bukit Panjang LRT (via Transfer Linkway Bridge), Bukit Panjang Plaza, Senja-Cashew Community Club, Hillion Mall (U/C, by 2016), Hillion Residences (U/C, by 2016), Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange (U/C, by 2017)
 * B: Junction 10, Sri Murugan Hill Temple, Upp Bt Timah Road
 * C: Bukit Panjang Road (U/C, by End-2016)
 * D: Hillion Mall (U/C, by 2016), Hillion Residences (U/C, by 2016), Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange (U/C, by 2017)