MRT breakdowns, like floods, are now part of Singapore life
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By Jeffrey Oon | Yahoo! Newsroom – 1 hour 50 minutes ago
Clench your teeth and bear with it -- floods and MRT breakdowns are here to stay.
While #SGFloods is so 2011, #MRTbreakdown is what’s in now.
Wednesday morning’s breakdown on the Circle Line was the third MRT disruption since last Friday and, by all accounts, it won’t be the last.
I’ve lost count of how many have taken this place year alone. But the real clincher for me was when SMRT started handing out chit sheets on Wednesday for those who were going to be late for work or school.
Wow, imagine that – a public transport operator with ready-made “excuse me for being late” notes for its commuters. How prepared.
And all this is taking place even as a high-level Committee of Inquiry investigates the breakdowns of last December, as if those were one-off incidents.
Whatever preventive measures that have been put in place by SMRT or SBS Transit since the twin December disruptions are obviously not working.
And if we’re going to have a COI report for every breakdown going forward, well, those experts are going to be stuck in committee hearings all year.
But you know what? I suspect that things will calm down soon.
Remember how there was widespread public outcry after the first Orchard Road flood in June 2010 and other floods later that year? What followed was plenty of finger-pointing between the URA, PUB and the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.
A succession of climate change and urban planning experts were presented to the media and, in the end, what were we, the people, left with?
A mish-mash of hazy explanations covering everything from over-development in built-up areas, run-off due to the Marina Bay reservoir, not “flooding but ponding”, to my favourite, “it’s the change in weather patterns.”
And now? Everytime we look out the window and it’s pouring cats and dogs, we mumble something about floods, check our Twitter feed and take a photo or two, and carry on with life.
Seems to me like exactly the same thing is happening with these train breakdowns.
LTA? SMRT? SBS Transit? Who’s going to care soon?
Between rail claws falling off, snapped power cables, “teething problems” and “electrical earth fault” issues, even Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew was left to concede last week that disruptions are now “unavoidable”.
So basically it’s a mess.
But in an almost laughable sort of way, we’ve begun to accept it as part of Singapore life – just like the floods.
You know how used to make fun at our third world neighbours for similar infrastructure problems?
Well, guess what, the joke’s now on us. -
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MOE is looking into incorporating the crisis management skills into the pri sch syllabus -
we are a bigger joke coz we are first world. first this first that!! our neighbours must be laughing!!!
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PAP may no longer be part of Singapore's political life.
I hope opposition can fiercely attack the PAP during Hougang by elections using these issues.
PAP die also don't want to hold the by elections. Maybe they want to drag out the elections till June to clash with Euro 2012 so as to distract voters.
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super frustrated that day, stuck at lorong chuan 30 min, just one stop i can reach Bishan interchange. zzz
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HEY!!!spore is just like a 3rd world country in some rural area.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
PAP may no longer be part of Singapore's political life.
I hope opposition can fiercely attack the PAP during Hougang by elections using these issues.
PAP die also don't want to hold the by elections. Maybe they want to drag out the elections till June to clash with Euro 2012 so as to distract voters.
even if PAP lost....the country will stumble and lose 40% of its value because no one cares to run things properly anymore. -
in engineering,if a machine breaks down...u need to remove the problem or problems initiated by original problems otherwise machinery will cause problems forever.
i would say from all the problems seen so far from
1)door of mrt station opening n not closing after it left station
2)very frequent breakdowns
3)very lengthy breakdowns
its like a badly runned and designed system fit to be 20,000 leagues under the sea.
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Originally posted by Hitman Chief (Barium):
even if PAP lost....the country will stumble and lose 40% of its value because no one cares to run things properly anymore.The attitudes of many Sgreans are no longer what I know but deteriorating to match her mishmash migrants. A sad fact.
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but flood comes every 50 yrs, as said by Mr so-and-so......
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Originally posted by XD4730U:
but flood comes every 50 yrs, as said by Mr so-and-so......
think he say that to lky like 40 yrs ago..mr so and so might end up hang upside down on meat hook. -
Originally posted by Hitman Chief (Barium):
in engineering,if a machine breaks down...u need to remove the problem or problems initiated by original problems otherwise machinery will cause problems forever.
i would say from all the problems seen so far from
1)door of mrt station opening n not closing after it left station
2)very frequent breakdowns
3)very lengthy breakdowns
its like a badly runned and designed system fit to be 20,000 leagues under the sea.
cos the previous CEO is not engineering trained, so her mind focused on her previous experience in retail. she took away resources otherwise meant for engineering to retail.
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Wednesday was my first MRT breakdown encounter . I foresee more to come. Damn! Damn the PaPigs and the butch Saw. Damn and boo to those Sickaporeans who gave them the bloody mandate which may likely lead to more "mendead", hahahah
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Sg is slowly breaking apart
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problems? where?
i dun see any coz its unavoidable
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wonder what will happen to mrt in 50 years time :-)
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Our MRT can "fly" liao
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Stop complaining lar.
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i am not complaining lar
i am commenting how MRT will improve
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Our mrt is already the best.
How to improve?
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bestest..
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Singapore is another Titanic.
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
Singapore is another Titanic.
can make into a movie n make $$$ -
it has been a fatal business mistake to ignore maintenance department as an indispensable part of business life.... this is what happens... not only for public sectors, private companies should also take a serious view and appreciate the maintenance extending the life cycle of the infrastructure supporting their wealth making activities.... I, for one, working in a bank, has been singing praises to our maintenance team...as such allows us to make more monies without worries...really cannot afford a minute of downtime...else all deals cutoff in a snap....
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Life in Sg .