Robinson Road, Singapore

Robinson Road (Chinese: 罗敏申路) is a major trunk road in Singapore's Central Area.

The road is named after Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, the Governor of the Straits Settlements in 1877–1879.

[1] It was a seaside thoroughfare until more land reclamation work in Telok Ayer Basin in the early 1900s (completed in 1932) shifted the shoreline further east to make room for the building of Shenton Way.

[2] This allowed for the road to be widened and converted into a one-way street to accommodate the rise in traffic flow pending massive urban development.

Today, it is flanked on both sides by major skyscrapers and lends its name to several buildings, including Robinson Centre and Robinson Point.