Commuters will have to make sure that they are at the right platform before they tap in through the fare gates at Stevens station on the new Downtown Line 2 (DTL2), which opens on Sunday. This is because the train platforms at the Stevens station will have separate sets of fare gantries - the first such arrangement in Singapore's MRT system, reported The Straits Times.

Once past the fare gantries, commuters will not be able to cross between the two platforms without exiting the gantries, which will incur a boarding charge of 78 cents. At other stations, commuters tap in at fare gantries at a concourse level, before going to the platforms.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said, "Due to the very limited and congested worksite, the (Stevens) station was planned as a stacked station, where one platform sits above the second platform."

Space constraints did not allow a link to be built between the two platforms - one for trains going to Bukit Panjang, and the other going towards the city. At Stevens station, the LTA has also chosen to place the fare gates at the platforms itself, so that the rest of the station can be kept open for public access in the future.

The LTA said more signs will be placed before the fare gantries at Stevens station to ensure commuters enter the correct platform.