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SINGAPORE - Engineers have yet to identify the root cause of Tuesday's train disruption , despite carrying out a comprehensive second round of checks.
In a statement on Thursday, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) also said an independent consultant, who specialises in transit power systems, will be engaged to look into the "overall conditional assessment of the entire power supply infrastructure and other railway trackside installations" from as early as this month.
Meanwhile, LTA and operator SMRT will continue checking the system.
During the second round of checks on Wednesday night, LTA and SMRT engineers conducted visual checks on all trains.
Insulation testing between the cables and third rail was also carried out, to ensure that the test components of the power supply equipment are in good working order.
Data loggers monitoring the running rail voltage were also installed at specific points on the North-South and East-West lines ,which experienced power trips.
Train services on the two lines were disrupted on an unprecedented scale on Tuesday for more than two hours from around 7pm, causing commuters to be stranded during the evening peak hour.
An estimated 250,000 commuters were affected that night as two of Singapore's oldest and most heavily-used lines were crippled.
Train services resumed later on Tuesday night, and continued to operate on schedule at normal speeds on Wednesday and Thursday.
The LTA has advised commuters to check for travel updates before starting their trip. Information will be available on the SMRT website, LTA and SMRT Facebook and Twitter accounts, LTA Traffic News and MyTransport.SG.
In case of a service disruption, commuters can continue their journey on the free bus services or use unaffected rail lines.
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Root cause of train breakdown still not identified,
independent consultant roped In
Engineers have yet to identify the root cause of Tuesday's train disruption , despite carrying out a comprehensive second round of checks.ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN
independent consultant roped In
Engineers have yet to identify the root cause of Tuesday's train disruption , despite carrying out a comprehensive second round of checks.ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN
SINGAPORE - Engineers have yet to identify the root cause of Tuesday's train disruption , despite carrying out a comprehensive second round of checks.
In a statement on Thursday, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) also said an independent consultant, who specialises in transit power systems, will be engaged to look into the "overall conditional assessment of the entire power supply infrastructure and other railway trackside installations" from as early as this month.
Meanwhile, LTA and operator SMRT will continue checking the system.
During the second round of checks on Wednesday night, LTA and SMRT engineers conducted visual checks on all trains.
Insulation testing between the cables and third rail was also carried out, to ensure that the test components of the power supply equipment are in good working order.
Data loggers monitoring the running rail voltage were also installed at specific points on the North-South and East-West lines ,which experienced power trips.
Train services on the two lines were disrupted on an unprecedented scale on Tuesday for more than two hours from around 7pm, causing commuters to be stranded during the evening peak hour.
An estimated 250,000 commuters were affected that night as two of Singapore's oldest and most heavily-used lines were crippled.
Train services resumed later on Tuesday night, and continued to operate on schedule at normal speeds on Wednesday and Thursday.
The LTA has advised commuters to check for travel updates before starting their trip. Information will be available on the SMRT website, LTA and SMRT Facebook and Twitter accounts, LTA Traffic News and MyTransport.SG.
In case of a service disruption, commuters can continue their journey on the free bus services or use unaffected rail lines.
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Opposition parties call on authorities,
SMRT to act on Tuesday's MRT breakdown
Opposition parties call on authorities,
SMRT to act on Tuesday's MRT breakdown
SINGAPORE - Opposition parties have weighed in on Tuesday's MRT breakdown, with the Workers' Party (WP) saying it is deeply worried by the disruption to train services.
In a statement posted on its website on Thursday, the WP said the incident raised questions about the resilience of Singapore's transport system. Train services were down on the North-South and East-West lines for more than two hours on Tuesday night, during the evening peak period.
"Such a system-wide failure could have repercussions on our nation's economic and national security interests," said the WP.
It called on the authorities to enforce a more rigorous maintenance regime on the rail network, with effective measures "to ensure that commuters' interests take precedence over corporate profits".
It also wanted concrete targets, such as the number of unscheduled train withdrawals per 100,000 train kilometres and the number of service delays exceeding 30 minutes, to be set and disclosed to the public.
Meanwhile, SMRT should support their engineering and front-line staff and equip them to handle any similarly challenging situations in the future, WP added.
"Their efforts and tireless work - many working through the night - should be recognised, and we would like to express our appreciation for their hard work," said the party.
In a statement posted online on Wednesday, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) pointed out that the possibility that passenger overload of the track system was a cause of the repeated MRT breakdowns had not been ruled out by Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew.
Given this scenario, said the SDP, the Government should relook its population policy of bringing in foreigners to live and work in Singapore.
"If we want a bigger population, we must ensure that it serves the needs and well-being of Singaporeans, not the interests of the PAP," said the SDP, which posted a link to its own population proposals on its website.
The Reform Party called for a fresh committee of inquiry to investigate the causes of the breakdown, but added that the chair of this committee should not be part of the Government or the public transport industry.
In a statement sent to the media on Thursday morning, the RP also called for an independent public transport regulator.
It argued that because the current regulator, the Land Transport Authority, is part of the Government, "there is a fundamental conflict of interest in having LTA regulate and investigate SMRT when both are arms of the Government".
Ms Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss of the Singapore People's Party also called for accountability and asked what steps were being taken to improve the MRT system.
A Committee of Inquiry had been held in 2012 to look into the major MRT breakdowns in 2011, noted the former National Solidarity Party secretary-general.
She urged SMRT and Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew to " provide, without delay, a full and frank account of the steps taken to implement the 2012 COI's proposal from 2012 to date".
She also called for a pay freeze for SMRT chief executive Desmond Kuek and fares not to be raised until these steps are fully implemented, and until Tuesday's breakdown was properly accounted for.
they need an extensive (and expensive) network of sensors for alarming, fault isolation and performance monitoring dedicated for all components that rely on high voltage electrical power. they can build a 4g lte network along the tracks and use machine-to-machine or internet-of-things (iot) smart sensors and devices to constantly transmit data to centralized servers for analytics, root cause analysis, and intelligent monitoring. it may not be one root cause but a combination of compounding issues. they need to correlate that data and decipher the most probable series of cause and effect. otherwise, it will be a constant cat and mouse game. the new 4g lte network can double up as a mobile network in the future for customers if it has adequate capacity and spectrum.
No wonder lah! today, 30 years after leaving the school the best never comes out yet
SMRT is Private Limited Company, right? Why must Garmen step in if a Private Limited Company lacks resources?
If need Garhmen help for the resources, why isn't SMRT a State owned enterprise instead?
SMRT & SBS took 1.1billion from the Garhmen already right?
If is state owned, how it make profits? So simple u dunno.
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