PM Lee: Full public inquiry into MRT breakdowns

It is stupid! A layman can guess what happens. The train "collector shoes" are a precision instrument and design for a certain weight of a train. If the train is overloaded specially at "peak hour", the "shoes" will be throw out of alignment. Inspecting a empty train is looking at the wrong thing no wonder they cannot find anything. Basically if you let in more ppl and your superstructure not design for it, you are asking for troubles!!!!

"It's not something that we could foresee it could happen," Saw said Friday. "All the energy now is to ensure that it doesn't happen again."

Miss Saw...What can you say now for 2nd time disruption within 2 days happened again ????? No more excuses...enough......CEO and Maintenance Director should RESIGN for poor management of SMRT !!! Dont always keep saying consider to quit but never quit for so many times.

PAP Transport Minister...can you do something about it for Singapore peaceful Transport ?

from now on take mrt must remember bring plastic bag, in case get stuck and need to pee, especially those with children

PAP ( LHL) let me give you my 2 cents of advise.
If you still let those idolt to help you. YOU WILL BE GONE SOON.
Not only SMRT have problem. Many other company running by Temasek Holding are also have problem.
The problem today you facing is only the tip of the ice berg.

the government have been harsh on us when we made mistakes, now we be harsh on them when they made mistakes, fair deal?

After tonight inspection, if there going to be another disruption.... than they will claim that the X'mas lightings to dark for inspection that night....!!!

Belows are the Lousy poor management which LTA and SMRT can review during the 1st disruption on Thursday:
1) No direction to commuters where is the bus provided
2) Announcement in Bishan saying that trains service from Bishan to Jurong East as per normal. Trains service not affected. However, I waited for 30mins but didnt see any train arrival. At least SMRT should announce the train arrival time so that commuters can decide alternative transport. The small platform crowded with so many commuters right up to the staircases. So MESSY ! SO FRUSTRATION !
3) No action taken by the driver operator or station staffs to EVACUATE few thousands of passengers stuck inside the trains in the tunnel without air-con and lights for 40mins in a congested passengers inside the train. What a lousy SMRT emergency management action being done. What happen if a weak adult or children or baby dead caused by suffocate in train ?

Belows are another LOUSY Poor management which LTA and SMRT can review during the same 2nd disruption happened"
1) Maintenance did not check what is the root cause of the disruption. Could it be one or two train "COLLECTOR SHOE" mounted too high which hit the "POWER RAIL" ? Or was it the new "TRAIN WHEEL" being replaced without proper wheel profile which raise up the "COLLECTOR SHOE" ? Or was it that section "POWER RAIL" mounted too low ?
2) SMRT and LTA said require longer time to investigate on Sat night to Sun 10am. However, not all commuters got the time or chance to get the news from TV news or radio. I think that SMRT should announce the 1st train service time changes on Saturday and also displayed on the "Arrival time" display at all stations platforms instead of announce on Sunday. Too late to those unknown commuters. This caused alot of unhappiness to all unknown commuters. Worst case i saw a A4 size paper written to inform the commuters at the corner of the station. How can the commuters see or aware ?? What a stupid station staffs had done with a small A4 paper to inform the commuters !!! Really really cannot TAHAN !

Finally, 2nd time of disruption definitely caused by the Maintenance SMRT. No EXCUSE this time ! SMRT CEO and the Maintenance Director have to be out from SMRT for so POOR management. And (Saw Pak Hwa) please dont keep saying may quit but never quit. PAP Transport Minister...please do something about it !

Hope LTA, SMRT and SBST can review the above listed comments if there is another Train DIsruption happen !
I SUGGEST THE COMMUTER FARE SHOULD LOWER EACH TIME OF TRAIN DISRUPTION in order to be fair and also will defintely improve the MRT maintenance and staff services
Commuter Fare = Transport Services

Pls do not tell us Singaporean to pay more in order to have better service.

Better replace some of SMRT's top management personnel, LHL or the next Election 2016, you will join George Yeo & Lim Hwee Hua.

The prime minister hopes the public and commuters will understand the difficulties.
But LHL, Did you even understanding on us true Singaporeans during your implementing on fare increasing?
There's no free lunch on our payout high fare for world class std.
Its very logically that with exchange we demand for Zero error in order to suit your claim of world class title.

Singapore is in a mess with the new leadership. Certain peoples are placed as minister and ceo just to fill in the blanks as the ruling party cannot get a competent person for the job. As long as they are related and can cover for the pap and convince the public then they are wanted by them. MRT is becoming a very dangerous place to be in. Just imagine that you and your family/baby has to walk through the dark tunnel and your imagination is focus on a incoming train. It's as if you are walking in a train track. The minister has just made singapore as a laughing stock to boast that singapore has a good mrt system when he was in a certain country when all this is happening here right under our nose!!!! It is as if he was the brain who had accomplished and built the mrt system.

Did anybody know why we need Inquiry Board? Bcos PM Lee is a scholar and all scholars in PAP talk like that. Every day talk and talk ......May b retribution for all the PAP boastinting that Spore # 1.

PM Lee, your own bloody 'committee' also hasn't make any bloody sound with regard to your bloody 'ministers' pay reviews', and now you are starting another 'committee' to conduct 'fool' public inquiry??? Who are you trying to fool?

Sack Tuck Yew! Sack Tuck Yew! Sack Tuck Yew!

Do not increase fares to pay for the fines , enough is enough

PM LHL,

1. In Bloomberg today, Singapore appear in the news for wrong reason on the breakdown of national train system and affecting 200,000 people !!!!

2. Why is your Minister Lui appears nervous and uncomfortable in the interview in our tvs ???

SMRT stand for SAW MUST RESIGN TODAY!!!!

May some one show this video clip http://youtu.be/84CePpU9C7E our PM Lee Hsien Loong, Transport Minister and SMRT Management. This is a real situation inside the train. See how panic and frustrated the passengers are, see how the commuter communicate with the passenger. If you can't hear the communication properly please set up the hi fi speaker to hear it loud and clear. See how the commuter handle crisis like this.

During exercise every thing is pre-organized, every respective agency know what to do but when come to real crisis. What happen all agencies are lost and don't know what to do, every body are waiting for instruction. If this is a terroist attack, I don't think our authority are ready for it.

PLEASE TAKE THIS INCIDENT SERIOUSLY DON'T SIT INSIDE THE AIR CON OFFICE MEETING & MEETING, GO TO THE GROUND AND SEE WHAT STILL CAN IMPROVE. NO POINT MEETING & NO IMPROVEMENT.

Every year end SMRT will receive a service assessment and every time got A1. with the A1 grade they got excuse to increase bus, taxi and train fare but look at this crisis how they handle? Did they meet up the service standard? Why made the passengers stayed inside the train for so long? People faint children cry and they can't find any authority for help. The only thing I heard is we are still looking into the problem. Please lah this tell me they are waiting for the top instruction.

This incident is a wake-up call for SMART to place safety first for our passengers. Imagine if the tunnel is filled with smoke, no power back-up and exhaust fan not working.

Read this comment from TOC.
'Check out the qualifications and backgrounds of the CEOs of PUB, HDB,Telecoms, LTA,SLA,MAS and other statutory boards that provide a technical service.Except for the PUB and MAS, all are headed by CEOs who do not have relevant qualifications for the line of service they provide.

In a highly technical line like the SMRT which involves intense engineering knowledge, the person who heads it must be equal to the technicality. Instead we find a retail expert heading the SMRT. I recall that the first CEO was a technocrat.

Nowadays it seems that high posts are given to those as reward or in virtue of family tie or other extraneous association.'
What is happening to this country?