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On Monday morning, train service along the North East Line was disrupted for more than 2 hours due to a power fault. SBS transit said that this was due to a damaged overhead power system as a new train was returning to the station in the early hours of Monday morning.

According to a blog post by Minister of Transport Khaw Boon Wan, the Land Transport Authority is to conduct an exercise with MRT operators SMRT and SBS Transit this month to test contingency plans put in place following the unprecedented 7th July MRT breakdowns.

LTA, you listen and listen up good. Everyone is already so unhappy about the whole transport breakdown issue, and now you're actually considering using our national manpower resources in the form of SAF personnel as an option to clear up a publicly listed profit centered company's future potential cockups.

I hope MINDEF will see this and not agree to our soldiers being deployed during major MRT breakdowns. These are public listed transport companies who are profit drive. How can our NS boys be made use of to clean up their shit? They even declare high profits recently, why not use these profits to hire more manpower to cope with such incidents? Our army personnel are meant for defending Singapore, not for doing marshaling duties during train disruptions!

LTA announced today that it is beefing up contingency plans in the event of a major rail disruption. They have approached the SAF to explore the deployment of manpower to give directions to affected commuters during only massive train breakdowns.

In a bombshell dropped on 11 August 2015, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew announced that he will not stand for re-election in the coming GE2015, despite multiple attempts by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and several Cabinet ministers to get him to stay in office.

Just a day after Minister Lui Tuck Yew announced an unexpected 1.9% public transportation fare reduction by the end of 2015, commuters on SMRT's North-South line experienced huge delays due to a train fault. As a result, many commuters were unable to get on the platform and had to face long queue before being able to enter the gantries.

In Japanese root cause analysis, if a Man - made mechanism fail, the true Root Cause is not a failure of technology BUT a Man Mistake ad the following will show.

SMRT has attributed the Jul 7 disruption of the North-South and East-West MRT lines (NSEWL) to "weak electrical resistance" of the train network's third rail insulator which supplies electrical power to trains.

Sharing my encounter what happen when a SBS transit bus (service number 147) breakdown at opp Burlington Sq (bus stop code 07517). This begin with the bus driver who is clearly clueless, confuse, poorly trained, non English speaking prc driver who cannot in English and do not communication with the passenger and endangering passenger life