SMRT and the Home Affairs Ministry have been conducting emergency exercises quite regularly with scenarios of bomb blasts, gas attacks and what have you. Channel News Asia will televised those exercises, showing how calmly, promptly and efficiently the MRT staff and Home Affairs personnel will assist commuters out, attend to the aged and children, provide up-to-date information to everyone round the clock. It paints us a picture of how well things will be under control by SMRT and Home Affairs in such situations. So the people need not worry and can sleep soundly.
Today's incident is a peace time scenario, where the trains are disrupted due to techinical faults. And we all can see how much chaos there is. No communications whatsoever, nothing done to evacuate the commuters, despite the poor ventilation, they were left in the dark literally, what were asked of the MRT staff by the public receive more questions than answers, the MRT staff don't even knowwhat to say let alone what to do. Everyone was left clueless, so the message is fend for yourselves guys.
So even in such a relatively calm scenario as it is not an aggressive act of terrorism, the MRT and Home Affairs can't handle it at all. Do we still believe they can do so as they "wayang" on national tv in times of real emergencies. This is what S'pore has became under too long a PAP rule, everything is "wayang". PAP's only concern is to ensure that SMRT being a govt linked company continues to get higher and higher revenue every year. The public is the least of their concern.
