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The Circle Line’s almost complete. Its walkways don’t have to be empty
With new MRT stations opening and more train lines in the works, there’s an opportunity to transform their long underground walkways into more than just infrastructure.
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Art panels along a walkway at a Thomson East-Coast Line MRT station.
PHOTO: ST FILE
Samuel Chng
It is a familiar journey for many of us in train stations across the island.
You get off the train, go up an escalator, tap out of the gantry and enter a long, air-conditioned underground corridor. They’re cool, clean, efficient – and sometimes, largely empty. Within minutes of arriving at your destination, you’ve probably forgotten them entirely.
