The Minister of Transport — a man who everyone believes to be the right man to fix public transport issues — is under a flurry of attacks by netizens who deemed him insensitive after a Facebook post.
Call it just really really bad timing, but Minister Khaw Boon Wan made a post on his Facebook page yesterday, celebrating a milestone where the Downtown Line arrived at 150 days without any service disruptions. Unfortunately, yesterday was also the day when the most tragic of train service disruptions transpired — two young SMRT staff were killed in the line of duty near Pasir Ris MRT station.