A new passageway will open on 15 January at Orchard MRT station.
It will link the ION Orchard development, currently under construction, with the MRT's other entrances and exits and nearby shopping centres.
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The passageway will welcome its first train commuters when the station opens at 5.30am on Tuesday. With its opening, the south entrance will close permanently from midnight on Monday.
The passageway connects to other exits and entrances at the station - in front of Tangs, on Orchard Boulevard and to a new entrance opening in 2009 at the second basement of Wheelock Place. There are also links to Scotts Road and Shaw House.
Soon Su Lin, CEO of Orchard Turn Developments, said: "All these specially designed direct linkages are designed to be directly connected to ION Orchard Mall at both basement(s) one and two levels."
In the meantime, to make walking from Wisma Atria to the passageway more pleasant, a temporary covered walkway will be completed in two weeks and it will be in use till ION Orchard opens in 2009.
In the passageway, commuters can expect a totally new experience. Advertising can be projected through the glass backlit walls. Art is also planned and the ceiling is built the same way - where colours and sequences can be programmed for different effects. - CNA/vm
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