Safety nets to be installed after rail clip incidents: SMRT

MRT noise are getting louder and louder. People aready highlighted the issue long ago.They should be alert long ago not waiting for public to make comments.Everyday after service inspection should be make 100% due to public safety.Profit must be spent into MRT service and upgrade train every years like Cars need to inspect every years.

To install nets for fallen clips but, what can hold a derailed train which seems likely to happen soon?

They are more concern on the Retail and Rental than the MAINTENANCE. Ex CEO is a super rich woman( SAW CB ),she has the last laugh

Hoped the trains will Not run off the tracks....X CEO Ah Lian quit and run off with the MILLIONS....without any answers for her screw up..

When SMRT appointed Ms Saw as the CEO, SMRT employed a Retail Expert to improve its bottom-line. The thousands of sq. meters of barren/empty floor spaces around the various MRT stations and walkways were a godsend for Mr. Saw to show her mantle. She spent most of her time in SMRT to develop and built these vacant floor spaces into cafeterias, papa and mama stores, boutiques, shops, etc. The rental from these which helped to beef up SMRT's profits over the last few years. However, her efforts and attentions to the retail side of SMRT's biz took her focus away from the main biz objective of SMRT....that's being a public transport company. The result is plain to see now. After more than 20 years of running the SMRT assets i.e. railway lines, rolling stocks, etc. bad wear and tear is showing now. SMRT lost its focus on the required M&R (maintenance and repairs). The assets are now falling apart and urgent engineering efforts are required to make good these assets before more serious accidents happen. SMRT mus realise that its first priority is as a public transport operator, then retailing ie. profitability. A good future CEO of SMRT must have a good engineering background to do this well.

"...He added that both clips that broke and dropped off the tracks will be sent for laboratory testing, on the advice of the LTA, ..."

I finds "...on the advice of the LTA..." statement very disturbing to me as if like if LTA never advice, is it not important for SMRT to conduct forensic investigations on the fallen clips to nail the roots of the problems? It also indicates to me that LTA is always in great publicity over SMRT lately. Just quote for the sake of quoting but start working therein please?

Why do they always have to say that things are very rare? Does that make you faultless?

First was the flooding. Said it will happen once every 50 years, but a few days later, same thing happened and it is now so common.
Then was the train breakdown. Also was "very rare". In the end, 1 week later it broke down again.

And now this

According to SMRT it is "Very Rare" for broken clips to drop off....hahaaahhaaa..BUT it does...so what is SMRT trying to say...?Never happen...will not happen..but it did happen.

Wear and tear occur faster due to overload or running at max load each time. I am sure when it was designed, they would not have catered to this LOAD. We have heard your stories and just hope THAT YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING AND NOT DISAPPEAR, when the shit hits the celling fan.

How come we never hear anything about KTM railway lines after so many years that Rail Clips are dropping out ??
It clearly goes to show that MAINTENANCE HAD FAILED TO DO THEIR PART FOR SO MANY YEARS NOW....!!!
Is that extra weight of those New Trains creating problem ??
LTA & SMRT heads must be sacked for failing their duties........!!!

In Europe, flying clips would have Ms Saw 'sentenced to death' as with falling objects from moving vehicles. In Singapore, especially with trucks, perpetrators get away scott free, dumping nails, screws, pipes, wood and all sorts of debris onto the road from moving vehicles and cause misery to other motorists who often have to contend with punctured tyres and damaged vehicles. Our traffic police could do more to apprehend them. I am sure the minister in charge has no clue the severity of flying objects.

Inferior quality being used. Who is the man incharge?

It is a very basic fault of wear and tear. The MRT line has been running for more than 20 years for the East - West Line. This is expected and when the whole system are subjected to natural daily vibrations and mechanical forces under humid and hot weather, some parts are bound to give way.

There must be preventive maintenance, no need to have broken clips falling or too loud noises before you take action. These are just warning signs for us, there are more problems to come if the leaders do not act sincerely, SMRT, LTA and the political leaders.

If there is a limit to the moise level of 80 Decibels for a short period before we go deaf, try taking some of the coaches where I am certain the noise level will hit above 80 decibels, if you sit at the ends of the coaches, you shall go deaf in no time.

This is due to incompetent and short sightedness of our leaders in focusing on making money rather than focusing on service standards and safety of the public transport system. You make SMRT public this is what you get, maximise profits. We need a change of top leadership, this is my personal conclusion derived after all the fiasco that has happened.

You get so many FTs in at a short time period, they take trains daily too and thus increasing the train loading with a sharp increase in weight. I say it again, there is no sincerity in our leaders these days, pay them high and you still have corruptions, and now look, nature is reacting too. It is happening in double time since we are also fast becoming a sin city with 2 casinos. Again, the focus is only on money, our lives are expandable and with so many people now, it is ok, we are just another number in their statistics.

This is serious and no joke, without these Penrole clips, the rails will be free on its own. The train may derail etc...SMRT are sleeping all these while and their Maintenance Dept needs to be sacked immediately...

The system back then wasn't built for the current capacity.
It is kind of obvious. The recent sudden increase in train capacity has resulted to faster wear and tear. All this chain of events are due to the increase of train capacity. Unless the system can handle current capacity, I think the occurrence of such problems will continue...

Why they broke is considerably more important than the fact they dropped. Yes, there's a possibility of someone being injured if hit but premature failure of the clips, if that is what it is, could cause a train to derail, at speed, possibly into the path of another. THAT would be serious.

Cable Ties.

From the picture the clips are just held by the spring tension..there is nothing to prevent it from coming out due to the high vibration that produce by the trains..that's very unsafe saying very rare to drop..sure need some prevention measures..

RARE is a new word now these people use. Nextime accidents happens involve hundreds of lives will they say its RARE too ???

not enough cable tie...........