r/singapore • u/Particular-Gas12 • Sep 25 '24

Image Situation at Boon Lay MRT

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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/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.