Orchard Road - Once Upon A Time

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Orchard Road, often known colloquially as simply Orchard, is a major 2.5 km (1.6 mi)–long road in the Central Area of Singapore. A famous tourist attraction, it is an upscale shopping area, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity.

Orchard Road got its name from the nutmeg, pepper and fruit orchards, or the plantations that the road once led to. Such plantations were common in the area in the 19th century.

After more than a century as a two-way thoroughfare, Orchard Road became a one-way street east of Scotts Road in 1974, and entirely in 1977 when Orchard Boulevard was completed. The ever-lively street starts at the junction with Orange Grove Road which is the location of the Orchard Hotel. It then stretches southeast across the Scotts Road–Paterson Hill junction, Orchard MRT station, Bideford Road, Somerset MRT station, Central Expressway, Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, and ends at the junction with Handy Road (just before Prinsep Street), where it becomes Bras Basah Road. It has an extensive underground infrastructure, including underground pedestrian walkways between the malls running underneath the street and other streets in the vicinity.

Information source – Wikipedia

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