Buangkok MRT station
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Buangkok MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the North East Line in Singapore. It is located near the road intersection of Sengkang Central and Compassvale Bow. The station ser
Exit B of Buangkok station
Station platforms
Concourse level of the station
White elephant
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A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage,
Buangkok MRT station
…Despite lobbying by grassroots leaders, the government supported SBS Transit's decision, arguing that a premature opening would have made the station a "white elephant". During a visit by Youth Minister Vivian Balakrishnan to Punggol South in August 2005, eight white cardboard elephants were put up in protest. A police…
A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855
Boothtown Aqueduct, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia