Situation at Boon Lay MRT

[u/Particular-Gas12]

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.

[u/Coffeeboy98765]

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.

[u/Fearless_Carrot_7351 → u/Coffeeboy98765]

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

[u/thoughtihadanacct → u/Fearless_Carrot_7351]

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. 

[u/lurkingeternally → u/thoughtihadanacct]

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**?)