Tampines East MRT station

Tampines East MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown line in Tampines, Singapore, located along Tampines Avenue 7, near the junction with Tampines Avenue 2. This station, like most of the other Downtown Line stations, also serves as a Civil Defence Shelter.

The station serves Tampines North Park, Tampines North and East residents and nearby schools such as East Spring Secondary School, Ngee Ann Secondary School and Dunman Secondary School. From Jan 2024 to Dec 2027, the station will serve Temasek Junior College in their holding site, located at the now defunct Tampines Junior College Campus.

History
Contract 925 for the construction and completion of Tampines East Station and associated tunnels was awarded to GS Engineering & Construction Corp for an estimated sum of S$208.52 million (USD 153.29 million) in July 2011.

Construction did not begin until late November 2011, where construction begun throughout the entire stretch of Tampines Avenue 7 from the junction of Tampines Street 42 to the junction of Tampines Avenue 7, 2 and 9. The road was realigned on 25 March 2012.

This station opened on 21 October 2017, as announced by the Land Transport Authority on 31 May that year.

Station details
Tampines East MRT Station serves the Downtown Line and is located between Upper Changi and Tampines stations. The station code is DT33. The station is located under Tampines Avenue 7, near the Junction with Tampines Avenue 9 and Tampines Avenue 7. The station has 4 entrances serving various HDB residences, schools such as Ngee Ann Secondary School, East Spring Secondary School, Dunman Secondary School and Temasek Junior College and the Tampines North Park. There are also 3 bus stops and 1 taxi stand outside the station entrances for a more convenient interchange for commuters. Tampines East Station is also a Civil Defence (CD) shelter. A convenience store, Cheers, is located at the concourse level of the station next to entrance A.

Like many other MRT stations in Singapore, the station is wheelchair-accessible, with a lift at every entrances and the concourse to platform. Tactile flooring are also installed in the station from entrances to the boarding platform for the visually impaired.

Public artwork
As part of the Art-in-Transit programme in MRT, an artwork named Welcome to Jingapore! by Quek Jing Cheng, an internationally awarded photographer, who also created the artwork in Tampines West MRT Station, is featured on the station walls above the platform. The artwork features 200 members of the public with many landmarks in the Tampines East area.