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Minister of Transport Khaw Boon Wan announced that the overhaul of North-South East-West lines will only be completed in 2024. He expects improved reliability by 2019 but asked commuters to bear with it as full-day testing on East-West Line commences in December.

A netizen suggested for Minister Khaw Boon Wan to stop appraising himself selectively and take responsibility for the lack of MRT reliability today. He warned that Singaporeans are patient but there is still a limit, and advised him to be there in hours of need, "not disappear and only reappear again when the war is over".

In 2011, MRT breakdown was 1 per 700 trips. After 3 years of diligent engineering effort by team, now its 1 per 2000 trips.Today, trains have 1 breakdown after 6 years running. (Me: I was surprised cos my car breaks down more often than that!!) In other words, events this week is an anomaly not norm. Things have really improved.

Train service reliability has improved in 2013 since the implementation of several targeted measures by the LTA-SMRT and LTA-SBS Transit (SBST) Joint Teams. SMRT and SBST are also enhancing service levels by increasing the number of train trips across their MRT lines. Across the MRT network, the number of incidents causing delays of more than 5 minutes for every 100,000 kilometres travelled has declined by 20% in 2013 compared to 2012.