Last night's MRT breakdown has been dubbed the worst ever in Singapore history — or the best ever — but that don't mean there's a need to set up a special investigation panel, according to Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew.
Instead, SMRT and the Land Transport Authority should focus their efforts on identifying the 'definitive cause' of the disruption of both North-South and East-West lines last night, which lasted for more than three hours, according to The Straits Times.
Could they hand out free popcorns while they're at it? We'd like to munch on something while we watch.
Lui was at the Ang Mo Kio station this morning to observe train operations and to apologise for yesterday's disruption, reported to have affected around 250,000 commuters.
It was the first time two MRT lines broke down at the same time.
"If we can find it (the definitive cause), we can take the necessary corrective actions and let commuters have a peace of mind knowing we have resolved the faults that caused the disruption," he told reporters there.
The last time a COI was organized to investigate an MRT disruption was in 2011, after a series of breakdowns in the North-South line which affected as many as 127,000 commuters at a time. In one incident, the train rides were unavailable for around seven hours.
Today's trains will be running at lower speed and could be temporarily halted from 11am-4pm.
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I am extremely concerned with today’s incident. This is the first time that services on both the North-South and...
Posted by Lui Tuck Yew on Tuesday, 7 July 2015
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