History
Before the construction of the North East Line, the Circle Line and The Atrium at Orchard, an original underpass opened on 8 December 1990 helped ease congestion at the traffic light across Orchard Road.
Dhoby Ghaut was one of four stations which participated in Exercise Northstar V, a mock terrorist exercise held on January 8, 2006. In addition, this station had also, damaged third rail between Dhoby Ghaut and City Hall on December 15, which caused the emergency evacuation and causing 3 injuries.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility—I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“What you don’t understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)