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Commuters were affected by train delays between Tampines and Pasir Ris stations this morning. This comes on the 1st day of PSLE and the MOE assured students they will be given full paper duration. Thank you SMRT for surprising us again!

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.

Our reader who takes the train everyday has complained about the massive train delay that crippled the NSL and DTL this morning. She claims SMRT reported shorter waiting time when passengers actually took more than 1 hr to reach their destinations. How will SMRT and SBS be accountable?

SMRT never fails to disappoint us during ever Friday evening peak hour. Think we can all expect overcrowded stations and long queues again at MRT stations!

Our reader noticed delays on the Circle Line just after Minister Khaw Boon Wan celebrated 250 days of having no problems. "Sometimes we ask how come MRT so many problem he nv speak up? But maybe it's good that he's quiet? Otherwise once he speak up then surely some line, whichever line he mention, will have problem". Shhh!

LTA asked everyone to have faith as it installs a software upgrade tonight (after passenger service hours) to improve and stabilise the system. It said it is doing all it can and working round the clock to address teething problems.

I guess everyone have been warned that there will be more train disruptions coming up as they need to test signal during the peak hours too. The reason they are doing this in June is because there many typical Singaproeans that will overseas during this period and all commuter ought to understand this. A temporary inconvenience is essential for long term convenience it's better to disrupt or even close the entire system now than during school term days. Now, I understand that during disruption is extremely difficult to get a taxi and grab and uber will surge, please understand that everyone wants to get home quickly and needs a cab, so those that are not in the bad rush, like students, singles and army boys please take the bus so that they don't add on to the surge. So please, stop complaining about train disruptions and move on, be positive.

The Circle Line (CCL) experienced intermittent loss of signalling-related communications this morning that led to multiple delays of train services at various locations within the network. Preliminary investigations by LTA and SMRT indicate that the nature of the faults could be similar to that of the incidents that occurred on the CCL in September this year. Investigation into those incidents assessed that an interfering signal could have disrupted the communications. The source of the interfering signals could not be conclusively established as the incidents subsequently stopped.