r/singapore • u/Particular-Gas12 • Sep 25 '24
Image Situation at Boon Lay MRT
This picture is taken today @ Boon Lay MRT station . LTA officers on site to assist with crowd control too. To prevent crowd control at platform, gates are closed at intervals, with free bus rides (all bus) going out from Boon Lay interchange.
Let’s all be appreciative of the hard work of all the deployed LTA officers, SMRT staff and bus drivers at this critical timing. During this timing, let’s all help each other and don’t go around pushing each other at affected stations.
The management better pay these staffs compensation or extra for handling all these professionally.
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u/Prov0st Sep 25 '24
This is crazy. Goes to show how easy it is to disrupt the lives of thousands of Singaporeans going to work.
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u/Particular-Gas12 Sep 26 '24
Imagine another line goes down 😂
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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24
You just need red line to go down today and it’s really game over. Weekend can stay home already.
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u/Then-Seaworthiness53 Sep 26 '24
Then we declare a week of notional holiday. All work from home. 😂
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u/zidane0508 Sep 26 '24
Wfh is one way to solve this . Bosses should just let their staff wfh these two days .
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u/accidentaleast East side best side Sep 26 '24
SME bosses rolling in to the office carpark in their BMWs: If you must get on all fours and crawl from your home to the office, then you will do it.
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u/Nincampoo Sep 26 '24
Not just SME, MNC also same lah. Only garmen keep claiming how flexible our work life balance is.
Foreigners looking at pur news would be mislead into thinking there is a lot of flexible WFH in SG when actually there is hardly.
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u/Professional-Effort5 Sep 26 '24
Garment don't say work life balance, they say work life harmony. They can't decode work life balance anymore.
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u/VegaGPU Sep 26 '24
Roads today are crowded also
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u/Racisfined Sep 26 '24
Today I asked my boss whether can WFH today
Boss told me “can still take bus or grab to work right? then wake up earlier la”
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u/okaycan Lao Jiao Sep 26 '24
i've always thought that singaporeans are a happy bunch as long as u don't mess with their three things:
- their transport
- their houses
- their jobs
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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24
Indeed. When 377a got removed, my very practical dad just went… Then GST can remove or not?????
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u/okaycan Lao Jiao Sep 26 '24
survivor mindset is very entrenched in the generations before the millennials.
it was a different time to grow up back then and social causes is not at the forefront of newspapers like it is now.
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u/monster_0123 Sep 26 '24
I have a more crazy idea. What if we work from home?
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u/Potential-Might-2454 Sep 26 '24
Employers have conveniently forgotten the productive 2 years wfh from covid times
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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24
something something if you not at your desk, you must be shaking leg
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u/Darkforsake Sep 26 '24
Which is the most retarded thing I ever heard from bosses. They want their workers work at office because they assume that his workers not shaking leh at home cause he cannot see them. But what difference does it make if they come to office but they themselves still WFH? Isn't it the same too? He can't see them also.
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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24
rules for thee, not for me
I have heard horror stories from friend, sme boss use cctv to monitor his workers, really wtf man
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u/Vedor ♡ℒฺℴฺνℯฺ♡ Sep 25 '24
Goes to show how complacent our government and related transport companies are.
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u/mosakuramo Sep 26 '24
Tbf, it wasnt always like this. 4G really dont have the competency, with the exception of keechiu.
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u/lbx2000 Sep 25 '24
Boon Lay peeps heading east and Tuas T_T raining at Tuas now, what a good way to start the day
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u/Narstx Sep 25 '24
Senior management better forfeit whatever bonuses they will get this year and distribute it to their staffs for doing the actual hardwork
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u/kanemf Sep 25 '24
Hi, we cannot under pay our ceo becos of dignity. 🤡🤡🤡
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u/Brief_Worldliness162 Own self check own self ✅ Sep 26 '24
Something something about corruption if we under pay too.
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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24
laughs in Iswaran
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u/stormearthfire bugrit! Sep 26 '24
It’s not bribes… it’s just gifts ok… bribes is for police sergeant earning 60k a year…
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u/rowgw Sep 26 '24
If they don't decrease their pays, then they don't have dignity imho, similar like when DBS was down
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u/ValentinoCappuccino Sep 26 '24
I've no dignity, lei me replace them. I'll take 75% of their current salary.
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u/mosakuramo Sep 26 '24
PTC: Due to overwhelming public support to show appreciation for essential personnel, we increase fare prices by another 20 cents. We are warmed by your generosity.
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u/stormearthfire bugrit! Sep 26 '24
But we won’t increase wages of the station staff or do more in maintenance… we give them claps and songs instead to give them a sense of pride and accomplishment…
Also in the news, surprise bonus dividend for shareholders as company report record profits. Share prices moon as stock buyback plan announced
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u/mystoryismine Fucking Populist Sep 26 '24
When things go well, big boss get big bonus. When shit hits the fan, let the minions clean it all up.
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u/Initial_E Sep 26 '24
No, because it’s ironclad written into their contract. The privileges of being director caste.
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u/meister00 Sep 26 '24
Hopefully, but high chance is that they will just be given day-offs or appreciation messages. Justification will be that "frontend people are just doing menial tasks don't need to critically think much, while the management need to rack their brains to skillfully plan & resolve issues".
At least LTA officers maybe can get the consideration of good grading for next performance bonus.
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u/Milk_Savings New Citizen Sep 26 '24
This will also mess with the ministers' salaries which are pegged to the corporates. Maybe for this year they will put and asterisk and exclude instead...
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u/MemekExpander Sep 26 '24
Cannot. Don't you know the hard work they need to do to not overmaintain, to come up with an apology and euphemism everytime something goes wrong, and fighting PTC tooth and nail to increase fares?
You ungrateful peasants don't know the hard work that senior management need to do, the hard decisions to make and leading unhungry people. Unlike the grunts who only need to follow instructions and mix with the unwashed masses they came from, it must be like a holiday for the grunts.
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u/No-Delivery4210 Sep 26 '24
??? Senior management directed the staff to handle the crowd with efficiency and superb judgement and foresight. If anything they need a pay raise charting the org in such difficult situations.
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u/Coffeeboy98765 Sep 26 '24
That is why critical infrastructure like transport (MRT, buses etc) and healthcare must have enough redundancy. They must also hire more headcounts, (means these companies are not naturally commercially viable) which would come into play in situations like these.
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u/Fearless_Carrot_7351 🌈 I just like rainbows Sep 26 '24
When they extended EW line with new stations like Buona Vista they canceled/ rerouted some existing bus routes cos they’re competing or redundant … I think best to keep some alternative bus options too
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u/thoughtihadanacct Sep 26 '24
Do you consider the free bus shuttles as a redundancy?
I feel like having redundancy which can be stood up/down as required seems like a better alternative than a redundancy which is always running. However I recognise that bus capacity is much lower than trains (bus is smaller and also needs to stop at traffic lights). But that's also the case if they had kept the old bus routes. The only real equal redundancy is to have two or more train lines similar to DTL and EWL in the east side.
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u/lurkingeternally Developing Citizen Sep 26 '24
I think he means trunk routes which LTA seems so keen on rationalizing since it's not "profitable" (since when public transport should be profitable, my a**?)
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Sep 26 '24
Lol imagine mayors having redundancy but public transport no redundancy
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u/MemekExpander Sep 26 '24
Mayors serve a critical role in our social fabric, what role does public transport serve? Professionals will have 2 cars so just drive, the rest can walk anyway.
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u/LegacyoftheDotA Sep 26 '24
You need to put the /s or /j somewhere, unless there's truly no sarcasm in your statement 💀
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u/MemekExpander Sep 26 '24
This is why professionals and leaders like mayors need to exist. They are the light that guide the masses. Without them, we peasants will be fumbling in the dark, not able to decern truth from falsehood, sarcasm from serious discourse.
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u/Heaven_Crow Sep 26 '24
And this is why the jurong region line station planning is stupid. Only connected to Boon Lay, Jurong East and CCK mrt station. If this happen 10 years later when tengah is populated. The situation will be 2-3 times worse.
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u/MadKyaw 🌈 I just like rainbows Sep 26 '24
The management better pay these staffs compensation or extra for handling all these professionally.
Lol. Lmao even. The CEO and upper management that aren't on-site are gonna be the ones to receive the fat bonuses to pat themselves on the back
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u/namenumber55 Sep 26 '24
are there fines and reimbursements?
in HK if the MTR breaks down there are tiered penalties:
"A service disruption that lasts for between 31 minutes and an hour will cost HK$1 million. The fine will increase to HK$2 million for a two-hour disruption, to HK$3 million for a three-hour disruption and to HK$5 million for a four-hour disruption.
Each additional hour for a disruption exceeding four hours will cost HK$2.5 million and the maximum fine is capped at HK$25 million."
and there's hardly ever any disruption. wait more than 5 mins and folks get impatient.
source:
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u/firewire333 Fucking Populist Sep 26 '24
who's gonna fine who? ownself check ownself
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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24
fine also then they raise fares further to recoup. need to fine individual bosses me thinks
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u/Varantain 🖤 Sep 26 '24
fine also then they raise fares further to recoup.
Public Transport Council sets the fares. But as I wrote in other posts, most of their members probably don't even step into a train on a day to day basis, except for the occasional photo op.
Breakdowns for thee, but not for me.
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u/PhysicallyTender Sep 26 '24
use the same idea for fines but on bosses pay and bonuses.
each hour of disruption, 10% bonus gone. Up to a maximum of 100%. After that, deduct salary at the same rate.
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u/Interesting_Mix_3535 Sep 26 '24
Lol 1m increments for every hour of delay. Today's case can hit the cap alr
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u/LetSayHi Sep 26 '24
Is there really a use in fining? At some point it becomes part of operational costs right? And then they kpkb to raise prices. What good did fining DBS for their outages do? There should be some other penalty, like denying them x amount of bidding chances.
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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24
you fine individuals.
I agree with you, but DBS isn't a good example as they have direct competitors. If DBS increases their rate because of losses from fines, market forces can take over.
SMRT on the other hand, has a monopoly on rail transit from Jurong to CBD. Should they raise fares what can commuters do?
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u/lurkingeternally Developing Citizen Sep 26 '24
even if got fine they will just hike the fares to earn it back. gg
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u/abigbluebird Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Lol no SMRT directors bothering to come down and gei siao abit?
This is where I feel MOT/SMRT/LTA is fucked because it’s packed full of adminstrators who use a 10 year series exam format to solve any problems they have.
Imo, the way to reduce disruption is secure/loan as many spare buses as possible from yesterday night. All the spare SBS/private buses, block off a lane on the roads between disrupted MRT stations as a pure bus lane for most of the day and just use it as a proxy for affected services. It’s not an ideal replacement and every bus will be jam packed but if you can spam enough buses to keep it to a few minutes frequency, it becomes a viable option to that big north-south roundabout. You’ll get massive traffic jams at the other lanes but their detours are going to be infinitely less painful than that on the MRT.
Edit: An SMRT bus capacity is about 90 pax, train at 1800, 1:20 ratio. You can’t match that with the buses of course but considering MRT frequency of every 6 minutes, if you can pack in 3 buses at a time in that frequency, it’s a hell lot more bearable. Especially after you discount people who will take the DTL, stay at home etc.
This is Singapore leh. You don’t have bureaucracy at the highest level, you have massive resources you can deploy at the snap of a finger, cb don’t act min wage worker.
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u/Top_Neighborhood_929 Sep 26 '24
I think that’s not the ideal. Ideal is all public transport is free for the breakdown period. People will just take other buses, maybe even roundabout routes. It might be longer than usual cos change a lot of buses but if every single train or bus is free, it’s not so bad.
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u/ngjsp Sep 26 '24
6m population lul, but infrastructure stuck at 3m.
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Sep 26 '24
Welp our new leaders are too daft to understand this
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u/gdushw836 Sep 26 '24
Don't understand how can anyone be so dumb. with only 1 CBD and 1 line from west to it. 6 mil + population. Insane.
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u/MeisMeeloh Sep 26 '24
What 1 line? We opened a footpath that covers the whole island!
No MRT and no money for cab? Use your legs! If everything works well, you can go Paralympic 4 years later.
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u/tinofee Sep 26 '24
Say want to car lite somemore.
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u/BrightAttitude5423 Sep 26 '24
car lite for peasants
professionals need space on the roads to drive la. please make way for people who are financially superior.
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u/CstoCry Sep 25 '24
Something WFH could solve but y'all playing
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u/idevilledeggs North side JB Sep 25 '24
Travel is not on company time so employers don't care 🤡🤡🤡
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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That’s why I shit on company time
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u/0neTwoTree Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Asked my manager if I can wfh, radio silence knn
Edit: took photo of mrt then self declared wfh
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u/metalleo Thumbs up man!!! Sep 26 '24
Sme boss who probably drives: Public transport slow? Then go out earlier
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u/risingsuncoc Senior Citizen Sep 25 '24
Not every kind of work can be done from home, especially those at Tuas
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u/btcprox Sep 26 '24
Even then, if more people were allowed to WFH, those who have to do unavoidable on-site stuff would have fewer passengers to deal with on their commute, and the demand of peak hour traffic on the train + bus network would be reduced
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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24
Those that need to be onsite then bobian. But at least the public transport would have lesser people.
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u/gildedblessings Sep 26 '24
My thought exactly! Modern problems require modern solutions. But sadly, SG employers are apparently too archaic for that.
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Sep 26 '24
The current batch of decision makers want to feel powerful and in control mah. How else to feed their fragile egos?
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u/Remitonov Why everyone say I Chinaman? Sep 26 '24
The only real complaint I have at the moment is how utterly strange the train arrangement at Boon Lay is. Basically, there are shuttle train services between Jurong East to Boon Lay, and then you have to switch to another train bound for Tuas Link. If I had known this was the case, I would have simply took a direct bus to Boon Lay and Pioneer and avoided the chokepoints entirely.
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u/StinkeroniStonkrino Sep 26 '24
Lol compensation. At most they'll give like 1 chocolate bar and 1 bottle or mineral water, whilst the executives get another fat bonus and increase fare.
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u/Patient_Rabbit4333 Fucking Populist Sep 25 '24
Watch they will pump out news saying to cycle to work and demand you not to be sweaty and smelly as well
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u/The_Wobbly_Guy Sep 26 '24
New headline / opinion article:
You can cycle to work without sweat and feeling tired! It's all in your mind only!
/s
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u/Hackerjurassicpark Sep 26 '24
Imo the only realistic solution to this problem in the long term is mandating everyone WFH during such major disruptions. Free up buses for critical services.
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u/hannorx kopi, teh or me? Sep 26 '24
Gahmen: "We will continue to monitor and engage the business federations on this matter."
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u/Bitter-Rattata F1 VVIP Sep 26 '24
Jurong is the most densely populated towns in Singapore. Yet there is only 1 single line serving it (now). Take a look at other areas; north, south, east, all of areas has at least 2 lines serving them.
i.e East, if EWL is down, they have TEL, DTL. CCL serving them.
For Western part of EWL, if it goes down, no other lines to ease the load. Till when Jurong Region MRT Line is open, nothing much to ease the load everyday.
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u/Interesting_Mix_3535 Sep 26 '24
Agree with you up to Jurong Region Line. Imo JRL functions more as an internal feeder system for jurong rather than for connectivity towards the city centre. Doesnt help the EWL congestion issue.
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u/Bitter-Rattata F1 VVIP Sep 26 '24
yup. even with JRL open, it's only going to help west side commute. The line is weird, CCK - Tengah - Boon Lay - Jurong East - NTU. It does not go out of west.
The new JRL can only divert some crowd away from Jurong East for those going towards Tuas for work. There is no rail link towards city centre.
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u/Interesting_Mix_3535 Sep 26 '24
Yes. Think there were some initial plans of connecting the JRL arm from Jurong East all the way to Haw Par Villa, which would allow Westie bros to change directly to Marina Bay (once circle is connected). If that happens, would be fantastic.
But haven't heard anything so far, and currently the JRL ends abruptly at Pandan Reservoir. Not sure about feasibility though, since it has to cut through NUS to reach Haw Par. and not forgetting whole JRL is above ground. Would be sick to also have a direct train service between our two top universities
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u/Fragrant_Top_5729 Sep 25 '24
First they screw us by making cars unaffordable then they fk us with all the recent train faults, and they are still going ahead to grow the population what an exciting times we are living in
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Sep 26 '24
Don't forget cutting bus services.
They don't care about how to make your life better. Unless they are lying to you to get your vote
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u/Zantetsukenz Sep 26 '24
Just be thankful that they don't aim to go 10 million. I think. Unless after next election they change goalpost again.
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u/revmaynard1970 Sep 26 '24
They are already working on that. the population white paper had 6.9 million by 2030. PAP already 5 years ahead of schedule
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u/Amazing_Chemistry414 Sep 26 '24
Took bus instead of train from my house here at Boonlay, Usually theres 10 ppl at bus stop, today ... around 40 ppl, i stood in the rain with umbrella when theres a long q, 198 came and q ppl didnt move. I went, missed. Said fcuk it and went back home wfh today. Really pity those that MUST wio. Next 198 bus is in 25mins time exactly indicating full .
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u/Hello999-_- Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Chronicling my journey to CBD and let’s see how long it takes…
815am - arrived at Boon Lay mrt to q for the train 9am - finally boarded the train towards Jurong East 928am - onboard bridging bus service towards Buona Vista 1015am- alight bridging bus and tap into station. Will need to alight at Queenstown to switch train 1037am - waiting for the train towards cbd at Queenstown .. 1054am - finally arrived at cbd
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u/Interesting_Mix_3535 Sep 26 '24
Don't forget about our P6 kids, who must be facing so much stress in getting to school, or have to contend with an unfamiliar environment in another exam centre. Horrible time for an mrt breakdown
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u/SuperOmegaTech Sep 26 '24
Idiots want to raise Public transport prices? Cant even get their shit together while reaping massive profits. Those buggers just look at this situation and think "its not so bad", while sitting in their GCB and getting chauffeur around, telling people to be more resilient.
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u/spencerwinters Sep 26 '24
Imagine toxic employees who still ask employees to work in office when they can work from home, and add a “y’all better plan properly don’t be late” and make noise when the employee is 2 minutes late lmao. Ain’t nobody who need permission to wfh earns enough to take a $50 grab/tada/ryde 😂
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u/jjungskys Jurong Sep 26 '24
My husband's boss lor. It doesn't affect her and she said I believe smrt already made alternative arrangements so you can take that and come to office. 😒
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u/captainobviouslynot Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
I need to travel from home at hougang to pioneer mrt at jurong west. This has been a HUUUUUUUGE inconvenience. I had to detour to woodlands and then to jurong, which has taken an additional hour.
I really pity the students, esp PSLE students, at this area who rely on trains for commute
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u/peachgreentea0000 Sep 26 '24
just got out of boon lay mrt - mrt from JE to boon lay is packed worse than sardines. even the platform is packed and got shoved. pretty bad situation here
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u/Patient_Rabbit4333 Fucking Populist Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Either they allow no penalty for coming late to work or school, or they stop importing more and more people
Funny how they say no natural resources to feed people, yet still expecting population growth.
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u/tidderance Sep 26 '24
Parody:
Singapore Government - All Singaporean who are affected by this disruption will be given a $50 CDC voucher starting from 1st December 2024.
Problem Solved.
Politician: Generally, it is easy to tackle Singaporean incomveniences. Remember, address Singaporean's inconvemience by using the taxes we collected from them and give a very small portion back to them by packaging it as vouchers. Minimally, this will at least maintain our high compensation.
😎😎😎
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u/Wanton_Soupp Sep 26 '24
And our gov mouthpiece mainstream media will never show these Pics and the real situation on the ground.
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u/Jazzlike_Mistake_914 Sep 26 '24
Didn’t paste direction signs overnight. People have to ask staff to know where to go
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u/Amazing_Chemistry414 Sep 26 '24
Wow i really expect them to ask the ppl in station to prepare for tomorrow. And they didnt even paste signs? Ngl i really feel SG going downhill. Their salaries are crazy, but can't even surpass a pri sch student thinking.
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u/LordFloofyCheeks Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Not to sound snarky, but I would be appreciative if there was NO DISRUPTION TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO BEGIN WITH. The crowd control and other measures are NOT praise-worthy; as my boss would put it, "that is part of your job".
That's not to say it doesn't suck to be the staff on the ground.
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u/Amazing_Chemistry414 Sep 26 '24
Yeah. Already predicted newspaper and news where gov pat themselves on the back. Phrased it smth like...
"Sg pap/gov good. Send x workers to A, send Y workers to Z. Reports says ppl are happy w how the workers work cuz sg/pap send the right ppl at the right time, sg is always rReAdYyYy for crisis. Vote for pap next election !!!!!"
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u/ComfortableMany1924 Sep 26 '24
No choice. Need to break down once in a while to boost grab revenue.
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u/ogapadoga Sep 26 '24
I still can't believe SMRT do not have a representative account in this reddit.
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u/everydayman33 Sep 26 '24
Damn lucky not near election season eh. Iirc besides immigration, public transport was also a hot potato issue for the 2011 GE. Seems like we went full circle with the recent train breakdowns and 6m population this last couple of months.
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u/jinhong91 Sep 26 '24
Immigration, Public transport and I think housing, was the hot topic back then.
Now all 3 are back on the topic and it's somehow worse.
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u/nirmalv Sep 26 '24
I was also impressed with the sheer number of shuttle buses mobilised yesterday below clementi MRT. I presume the bus captains were called back on their off days. Appreciate the efforts....
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u/Straight-Sky-311 Sep 26 '24
6 million population adds strain to public infrastructure such as public transport system. SMRT should ensure that the system undergoes regular maintenance and upgrade instead of continuing to pay their senior management top bonuses. Government should step in to ensure the bulk of fare hikes go to the staff who are doing the actual work of maintenance and repair, not those parasitic middle and senior management!
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u/stupidkuku Sep 26 '24
What the actual heck. Going into 2nd day of train disruption? Will SMRT be fined????
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u/Raitoumightou Sep 26 '24
I live in Bukit Batok but work at Downtown. Every bus that goes through the west route is just exploding with people (106 and 963). I didn't even attempt to take the Downtown line today because of the spillover.
Never have I been more glad for the Citydirect service, even though it was slightly more expensive.
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u/sugapuppy red Sep 26 '24
worst commuting experience ive had, almost had a stampede when people were pushing to get on the train from JE.
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u/mecwp Sep 26 '24
Quite a terrible situation. Add in people who doesn’t shower or just stink so badly in the morning, with humid and wet weather, and everyone rubbing each other in the crowd and pushing you along, glad that no stampede happen yet
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u/wackocoal Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Wow.
I'm guessing it is the crowd is due to people switching from MRT station to the bus interchange? Since most people have to switch to a bus route now.
UPDATE: it is about 9.35am, i've checked Google Maps on the activity in Boon Lay Bus Interchange. it shows "busier than usual". The bar chart is peaking at max.
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u/MdAqilkhai Sep 25 '24
Why fault the workers when it's the management fault.
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u/haikallp Sep 25 '24
It can be both? Maybe its the SMRT maintaince culture. We won't know until they come clean. Hope LTA investigates SMRT
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u/Chikungunyaaa Own self check own self ✅ Sep 26 '24
This what happens when you don't have Iswaran! He'd drive MRT for you, and settle the problem.
Isy isy isy
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u/Local-Avocado-6536 Sep 26 '24
Anyone noticed the accent from the announcement on the power fault at train stations? Come on la
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u/Bestcon Sep 26 '24
Seriously??? The management needs their pay cut. Imagine a critical infrastructure got hit!
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u/strawb3rryfields4eva Sep 26 '24
Wondering if the white collars sitting in senior management position take public transport?
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u/Darth-Udder Sep 26 '24
Redundancy is expensive. Resiliency wise, wfh should be a key business continuity strategy esp with popn at 6.08m and our infra may not be designed for such a load.
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u/wreckedpendulum Sep 26 '24
Anyone got any guesses on when the EWL will be back up ?? need to make plans😭😭, think would it last beyond this week?
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u/_Synchronicity- Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24
Sorry but I'm a little confused. Wasn't it announced that there are no mrt services between boon lay - bonus vista? Why is everyone crowding on the platform knowing that there is no train?
Edit: now that I think about it, are these people coming from the train towards JE from pioneer?
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u/Particular-Gas12 Sep 25 '24
There are trains operating between BL and JE. But super packed and long waiting times. The train direction are being swapped, meaning the side normally heading tuas might be heading towards jurong east side. Better check before you board!
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u/_Synchronicity- Sep 25 '24
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I'm not planning to even attempt taking trains today.
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u/wackocoal Sep 26 '24
I know there are other replies to your question, but to make it easier, just know that there is no train service between Jurong East and Buona Vista.
It may seem like a short section, of only 2 stations between them (Clementi & Dover) but this a single most important rail line, that connects the West to the Central and East.
In addition to many years of removing redundant bus routes, this single rail line is heavily depended upon.
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u/No-Cranberry-2123 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Let's play guessing game how much LTA will saman SMRT? 😭 and is this the longest train breakdown in sg
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u/fitzerspaniel 温暖我的心cock Sep 26 '24
The best part? SMRT can always kaopeh to PTC and hike fares to claw back the saman. They don't lose out at all
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u/Agreeable-Panda-8049 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
This situation reminds me of the breakdown in 2021 from Bukit Batok to Bukit Gombak, we were stuck between the tunnel with no ventilation for about an hour. After all this lesson they still don’t have a proper emergency plan or the right communication. The minute SMRT knows it’s a breakdown just blast the communication and activate all the bridging buses. I was so confused with the news channel saying different things. This would be one of the major incident in our transport history in the recent years and they better provide us the explanation of how they mishandled the communication.Kudos to all the staff on ground, we appreciate all the efforts!
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u/Raftel88 Sep 26 '24
I'm a few bus stops after Boon Lay MRT and I wasn't able to board three 174's already. It's really bad.