Phoenix

date_opened:=6 November 1999

Phoenix is a station on the Bukit Panjang LRT. In 2017, this station installed half-height platform barriers.

Incidents
An LRT train with 20 passengers crashed into an empty LRT train at Phoenix station on 19 November 2000 after an operations officer failed to do a manual check of the lines before restarting the network system. The impact threw seated and standing passengers to the floor of the train, injuring five of them. The service was disrupted for seven hours but it was restored in stages and was fully functional again by 2.30 pm the same day. Then Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong visited the site soon after being told of the accident.

In 2010, an LRT technician, Chia Teck Heng, who was checking the power rail between Phoenix and Bukit Panjang stations, died of injuries sustained after being hit by a train at Phoenix Station.

Exit
There is one exit at ground level.

Trivia

 * The name is derived from Phoenix Heights, a name for a cluster of private low rise houses along one side of the station.
 * The design of the station was chosen by the Bukit Panjang residents when the BPLRT was being constructed.