Dover MRT Station

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Dover MRT Station 杜佛地铁站 டோவெர் Rapid transit
Side platforms of EW22 Dover MRT station
Station statistics
Address	200 Commonwealth Avenue West Singapore 138677
Coordinates	1°11′03″N 103°27′52″E / 1.184073, 103.464317
Lines	East West
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Structure	Elevated
Levels	3
Platforms	Side
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	18 October 2001
Accessible
Code	EW22
Services
Preceding station   Mass Rapid Transit   Following station Buona Vista towards Pasir Ris East West Line Clementi towards Boon Lay
Location
Dover MRT Station

An exterior view of the Dover MRT Station, which was built around existing elevated railway track and has overpasses leading to Singapore Polytechnic and bus stops on both sides of the road.

The Dover MRT Station (EW22) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station located in Dover in Singapore that is part of the East West Line. The station is located between the Clementi MRT Station and the Buona Vista MRT Station, and was opened on October 18, 2001. The first station to be built over an operating rail line with no disruptions to train services, with the exception that trains drove by the site at a reduced speed during the construction phase, it was also the first elevated station with two side platforms on either side of the tracks, as opposed to having a island platform in all other elevated stations.

Adjacent to the Singapore Polytechnic on one side, and undeveloped land on the other, the building of the station was met with reservations by some members of the public over the small area it serviced. There were criticisms over the spending of "taxpayers' money" chiefly for use only by students of one educational institution.^{[citation needed]} The Land Transport Authority, the government department in charge of public transport operations, proceeded with the construction anyway, using the justification that the service area extends to public housing flats on either end of the polytechnic, and that the undeveloped land opposite is slated for extensive development, largely residential in nature. The service area can also be thought to extend to the town of Dover.

As the second elevated station built in the late 1990s and the early 2000s (the other being Expo), it has a rather distinctive architectural design. like most projects in this period, it has an extensive use of glass and steel as well as the use of suspension.

[edit] Bus services

The following bus services pass by the bus stops of Commonwealth Ave West.

Service	Between	And	Notes
SBS Transit Trunk Services
14	Bedok Bus Interchange	Clementi Bus Interchange	Wheelchair Accessible Bus Service (WAB) Euro III
74	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Buona Vista Bus Terminal
105	Serangoon Bus Interchange	Jurong East Bus Interchange	Euro IV
147	Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Clementi Bus Interchange	Wheelchair Accessible Bus Service (WAB) Euro III
166	Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange	Clementi Bus Interchange
185	SBS Transit West District Depot	Buona Vista Bus Terminal	Euro IV
SBS Transit Fast Forward Services
74e	Hougang Central Bus Interchange Buona Vista Bus Terminal	Buona Vista Bus Terminal Hougang Central Bus Interchange	Morning Peak Evening Peak
SMRT Buses Trunk Services
106	Bukit Batok Bus Interchange	Marina Centre Bus Terminal
SMRT Buses NightRider Services
NR5	Marina Centre Bus Terminal	Jurong West
NR8	Marina Centre Bus Terminal	Bukit Batok