2 young lives lost

[SiaSuay]

After taking taxpayers' money . After implementing new rail model . After implementing new trains . After implementing new signalling service. The system still breakdown. Such worldclass service indeed . So Mr Khaw you still want to increase transport fares . Why hasn't the PM sacked SMRT CEO ? How much more the commuters have to put up with your failures in providing a reliable and affordable transport system ?

[labut]

Originally Posted by SiaSuay

After taking taxpayers' money . After implementing new rail model . After implementing new trains . After implementing new signalling service. The system still breakdown. Such worldclass service indeed . So Mr Khaw you still want to increase transport fares . Why hasn't the PM sacked SMRT CEO ? How much more the commuters have to put up with your failures in providing a reliable and affordable transport system ?

New train so cannot be train fault, signaling fault also supposed to solve liao.
Now blame it on the rail

[sadfa]

Originally Posted by skyleon

Baking flour sparks shutdown of Woodleigh MRT, second security scare this month

Published: 5:06 PM, April 18, 2017

Updated: 5:10 PM, April 18, 2017



SINGAPORE — Nearly three hours after the Woodleigh MRT station was closed on Tuesday (April 18) because of the discovery of a "suspicious substance", authorities gave the all-clear for the station to reopen at 4.20pm.

The suspicious substance found at Woodleigh MRT Station was later determined to be baking flour.

Dozens of officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force's hazardous materials (hazmat) team and the police had responded to the incident earlier.

TODAY reporters on the scene saw at least one SCDF hazmat vehicle, a fire engine and at least four police vehicles outside Woodleigh station. A few members of the public were seen milling outside the shuttered gates to the station.

Speaking at Woodleigh MRT Station shortly after the station reopened, Member of Parliament for Potong Pasir SMC Sitoh Yih Pin said: "Much as we always hope that nothing will happen, we must always be prepared in case anything happens."

"Thankfully, the station is opened (before the peak hour). So our residents won't be too inconvenienced," Mr Sitoh added.



continue reading here : http://www.todayonline.com/singapore...ty-scare-month


Glad nothing happened. Maybe this was just a test ?

Haha.
So this is the future of public transport in spore.

Next time cbd peak hour everyday got 3 hr closage cos they found white sticky fluid in toilet.

When there's fucking chaos when ppl try to go to work or go home everyday, see how forgiving sporeans are. Sporeans will fuck these idiots LA. See ppl drop bubble tea 0r tissue paper in MRT, its not terrorist event OK!!
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Exchange points future ma

[skyleon]

Man arrested after using baking flour to mark running trail at Woodleigh MRT station


Feng Yuan Wen


Apr 19, 2017 06:00 am
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Just over two weeks after Hougang MRT Station was closed for security checks related to an unattended bag, a similar incident occurred at Woodleigh Station yesterday.

Woodleigh, which is the third stop from Hougang on the North East Line, was closed for about three hours from 1.25pm as a precaution after a cleaner found suspicious white substance on the premises.

The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) hazardous materials (hazmat) team later determined the white substance to be flour.

A 69-year-old man was arrested for an offence of public nuisance after leaving the flour in the station, the police said.

Two other men, aged 53 and 70, who were with the suspect, also assisted with police investigations.

The police said: "The white substance was subsequently established to be flour used to mark a trail for their running route."

The New Paper understands the three men are local joggers from the running group Seletar Hash House Harriers. Its website shows that a run was scheduled yesterday at 5.30pm from Block 150, Serangoon North Avenue 2.

In hashing, advance runners set a course for other runners by marking out a trail with white flour, toilet paper and/or chalk marks.

When TNP arrived at Woodleigh at 2.10pm, the station had been cordoned off.

SCDF's hazmat officers collected at least seven vials of samples of the substance that had been sprinkled at various locations - near trees, grass patches and stairs outside the station, as well as at the concourse level in the station.

While some commuters were frustrated by the station closure, most understood why it had to be done.

Reaction on TNP's Facebook page was mostly positive, with some leaving words of praise for the police and SCDF officers, thanking them for their hard work.

But elsewhere online, there were snide remarks about the "over-reaction" of the authorities in closing Woodleigh.


continue reading here : http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/man...gh-mrt-station


It is nice to see the authorities respond quickly to the incident. The safety of the commuters should always be a priority . Question now is how safe is the mrt system is ?

[skyleon]

A plea to the bosses : Please do not penalise your workers for being late to work due to the delay in mrt services. It is not your workers' fault who are late . But rather you should blame SMRT ; LTA and Ministry of Transport for this latest disruption in services .

[jolin123]

Don't know why mrt still got so many breakdowns ?

[sadfa]

Originally Posted by jolin123

Don't know why mrt still got so many breakdowns ?

Its called now bitter later sweet.

Means u now get dengue, heart attack , stroke, coma n cancer .

Later on u will b fit n live to 120 years old
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Exchange points believe ma

[sadfa]

Originally Posted by skyleon

Man arrested after using baking flour to mark running trail at Woodleigh MRT station


Feng Yuan Wen


Apr 19, 2017 06:00 am


Just over two weeks after Hougang MRT Station was closed for security checks related to an unattended bag, a similar incident occurred at Woodleigh Station yesterday.

Woodleigh, which is the third stop from Hougang on the North East Line, was closed for about three hours from 1.25pm as a precaution after a cleaner found suspicious white substance on the premises.

The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) hazardous materials (hazmat) team later determined the white substance to be flour.

A 69-year-old man was arrested for an offence of public nuisance after leaving the flour in the station, the police said.

Two other men, aged 53 and 70, who were with the suspect, also assisted with police investigations.

The police said: "The white substance was subsequently established to be flour used to mark a trail for their running route."

The New Paper understands the three men are local joggers from the running group Seletar Hash House Harriers. Its website shows that a run was scheduled yesterday at 5.30pm from Block 150, Serangoon North Avenue 2.

In hashing, advance runners set a course for other runners by marking out a trail with white flour, toilet paper and/or chalk marks.

When TNP arrived at Woodleigh at 2.10pm, the station had been cordoned off.

SCDF's hazmat officers collected at least seven vials of samples of the substance that had been sprinkled at various locations - near trees, grass patches and stairs outside the station, as well as at the concourse level in the station.

While some commuters were frustrated by the station closure, most understood why it had to be done.

Reaction on TNP's Facebook page was mostly positive, with some leaving words of praise for the police and SCDF officers, thanking them for their hard work.

But elsewhere online, there were snide remarks about the "over-reaction" of the authorities in closing Woodleigh.


continue reading here : http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/man...gh-mrt-station


It is nice to see the authorities respond quickly to the incident. The safety of the commuters should always be a priority . Question now is how safe is the mrt system is ?

Wahlao..... Respond quickly?? Don't make me laugh la.

This Is a fucking joke.
Thia isnt over reaction.
This is Incompetence.

If you're in charge of air defence n u keep firing missiles when radar show something n end up killing mynahs, like that called quick reaction ma? Shoot missile cost few hundred k to kill birds cos they don't know what's going on.

These idiots aren't professional.
See something suspicious n close MRT station, activate bomb squad.
Knn! Do this everyday n everytime ma.
And shanmugam even say good Job!
Every suspicious thing over react is good job??

& fucking idiots now charge the poor guy who mark out jogging route cos they're idiots who are clueless.
Shameless n disgrace.
Once again slime a guy to make themselves look good

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Exchange points clueless ma

[skyleon]

Running group apologises for security scare at Woodleigh MRT station


Posted 19 Apr 2017 22:20
Updated 19 Apr 2017 22:41


SINGAPORE: Local running group Seletar Hash House Harriers apologised on Wednesday (Apr 19) for causing alarm and inconvenience in Tuesday's (Apr 18) security scare at Woodleigh MRT station.

The group said in a press release that three of its members were marking a trail for a run scheduled for Tuesday evening.

The trio were planning a running route run that planned to take runners from Bidadari towards Woodleigh Close and they chose to use the MRT underpass as it provided the safest way to cross Upper Serangoon road, the statement said.

Police arrested one of the trio, a 69-year-old man for causing alarm, while the remaining two men, aged 53 and 70, assisted police with investigations. Their actions had triggered a temporary closure of the MRT station for about three hours.

According to the Seletar Hash House Harriers, the trio had left baking flour at three to four points within the station's premises. This was part of marking a hash running trail - a practice which typically involves using flour, chalk or tissue to mark out a trail for runners.


continue reading here : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...t/3690052.html

[skyleon]

North-South and Circle Line improve, East-West unchanged



Report card on rail reliability


Adrian Lim, The Straits Times


Apr 25, 2017 06:00 am
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In operation since 1987, the East-West MRT Line (EWL) and the North-South MRT Line (NSL) are the oldest in Singapore and in the midst of an overhaul.

Their reliability is uneven.

While the NSL's reliability has risen by 15 per cent, the EWL's remained unchanged for the 12-month period ending March 31 this year.

The reason: rail upgrading works of the NSL have generally been carried out ahead of EWL's.

Operator SMRT, however, is "confident" that the EWL will improve in reliability as its upgrading works catch up with NSL's, its chief executive Desmond Kuek said yesterday, at a briefing on the company's rail operations.

"Our data show that parts of our network that have been renewed and upgraded are performing well. This gives us confidence... we will see stepped improvements in reliability," Mr Kuek added.

He also said that in the next few weeks, SMRT will intensify the trials of a new signalling system for the NSL, by putting in more trains during tests.

The EWL is being equipped with the same signalling system too, but it has yet to be fully installed for the trials to be conducted.

The reliability of trains is measured by what is known as Mean Kilometre Between Failure (MKBF). It refers to the average distance travelled by trains before facing a delay of more than five minutes.

For NSL, the annual MKBF is 180,000km as at 31 March, an improvement over the 156,000km as at 31 Dec last year.

The EWL, however, registered an unchanged MKBF of 145,000km.

But for the eight-year-old Circle Line, the latest MKBF is 282,000km, a 24 per cent improvement over the previous 228,000km.

The reason the trials of the NSL's new signalling system is being intensified is to simulate the train frequency on a typical week day.

They will arrive up to two minutes apart instead of up to three minutes as on a typical Sunday, which is when the trials are done.

The tests, which started on April 16, are expected to last two months.

The replacement of the power-supplying third-rail for the NSL and EWL will also be finished in "the next one month or so", said the managing director of SMRT Trains, Mr Lee Ling Wee.

Last year, third-rail problems caused 18 delays that lasted more than five minutes.


continue reading here : http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/nor...west-unchanged


Sure or not got improve ???

[Naturalists]

From worse to bad is considered an improvement right?

[skyleon]

Originally Posted by Naturalists

From worse to bad is considered an improvement right?

So would you consider this as fake news ?

[Laysfan]

Originally Posted by skyleon

So would you consider this as fake news ?

Don't think is fake news, it is their way of presenting data

[skyleon]

Meaningless statistics behind the SMRT’s claims of improvement for its MRT lines

By Leong Sze Hian on April 25, 2017 Opinion, Transport



Reliability of MRT lines improves

I refer to the article “Reliability of North-South and Circle MRT Lines improves; East-West Line maintains same standard” (Straits Times, 24 Apr 2017).

It states that “In the year ending Q1, the NSL clocked an average of 180,000km before a delay lasting more than 5 mins, bettering the 156,000km registered in the year ending Q4, 2016.”

Trains travelled longer distances before delays?

According to an article “MRT network performance up 30 per cent in 2016 from 2015” (Straits Times, 12 Jan 2017) that was published earlier this year – “last year, trains clocked 174,000 train-km travelled between delays of more than five minutes, a 30 per cent increase from 133,000 train-km in 2015.”

Last year’s was 174,000 or 156,000 km?

So, how is it that “last year, trains clocked 174,000 train-km travelled between delays of more than five minutes” has now been apparently become “before a delay lasting more than 5 mins, bettering the 156,000 km registered in the year ending Q4, 2016”?

So, is it 174,000 or 156,000 km travelled between delays of more than five minutes, in the last year?

As to “The EWL, however, maintained the same level of Mean Kilometre Between Failure (MKBF) – a key measurement of reliability -of 145,000 km for both periods. The CCL improved its MKBF to 282,000km from 228,000km previously” – Who cares how many km travelled between delays?


continue reading here : https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/201...its-mrt-lines/


A train delay is still a train delay which cause thousands of people to be late for work and appointment .

[skyleon]

Train delay on EWL towards Pasir Ris this morning, no official announcement from SMRT

By Martha Soezean on April 26, 2017 Current Affairs



Another delay this morning on East-West Line (EWL) was experienced by the commuters, this time without an official announcement from Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (SMRT).

Uma Venkatraman wrote on her twitter, “C'mon guys, must we face this every day? Bedok MRT. . This is the scene from 8.40am!”

Sheen Lau wrote on her Facebook, “Is it wrong of me to request for #SMRT@SMRT to broadcast officially on all public channels whenever there is a train delay or breakdown defined by a delay of more than 5 minutes? It is not sufficient when you only announce it INSIDE the trains. Why am I answerable to my bosses for being late to work when I am supposedly & usually on time to work?”

Aleena said on her twitter, “Left home earlier today but gonna reach office later yay thanks smrt thanks alot sure thanks.”


continue reading here : https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/201...ent-from-smrt/


Did this really happen today ? How come no announcement from SMRT & mediacork ?