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Serious Sinkies Getting Used To HDB Lift Breakdowns! Waited 4 Hours For Repairs! Guess Where?

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SINGAPORE - All four lifts at two Housing Board flats in Punggol broke down for about four hours on Tuesday (Jan 10).

The lifts at Blocks 314A and 314B at Waterway Cascadia broke down at around 5pm on Tuesday, Lianhe Wanbao reported on Friday (Jan 13). According to residents, the disruptions at the new Build-To-Order flats have been happening at least once a month since September last year.

The Straits Times understands that the lifts are maintained by lift company Sigma Elevator.


It has been banned from tendering for new HDB projects since October 2015 due to its inability "to fully adhere to the timeline of lift installation for certain projects", ST reported on Friday.

A spokesman for the Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council told ST on Friday that the fire protection system at both blocks had been activated falsely, homing the lifts at the ground floor.

"Immediate attention was given to the source of the issue, in this case, the fire protection system after we received the feedback, after which, the lift technician followed up to check on the lifts," said the spokesman.

Lift firm Sigma banned from tendering new HDB projects since October 2015 over poor performance, installation delays

The Town Council is currently investigating the cause of the activation of the fire protection system.

"As the fire protection system is still under the defects liability period, we have instructed the main contractor to carry out testing and to ensure that the false activation of the fire protection system does not recur," said the spokesman.

Resident Pan Zhenyu, a 35-year-old market researcher, told Wanbao that a neighbour told him about the breakdown via a WhatsApp group chat.

After hearing that the lifts were down, Mr Pan went for dinner and returned at 7pm but the elevators were still not working.

"We waited until after 8pm before we saw a lift maintenance worker turn up," he claimed. More than 10 residents gathered at the void deck to wait for the lifts to be repaired, he said.

"The block is 18 floors high and I live on the 17th floor," said Mr Pan. "It's really not easy to climb that high, so I could only wait patiently. I got home after 9pm, after the lifts were fixed."

A 56-year-old resident who gave his name as Mr Huang told Wanbao that he waited four hours for the lifts to be fixed.

Mr Huang, who is self-employed, said he had gone home at about 6pm when he was told that the lifts were down.

"I waited outside for four hours and went home only after 10pm. Actually, the lifts have been breaking down at least once a month since September last year. This has been very inconvenient for us, but we're also used to it by now," he said.

Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC MP Sun Xueling visited the affected blocks on Wednesday (Jan 11), according to a post on her Facebook page.

She wrote on Wednesday: "The fire alarm at Block 314B Cascadia had gone off twice (Tuesday) evening bringing lifts at Block 314B to a stop as a safety measure. I have asked for an incident report from the agencies and the lift contractor as to why it took so long to reset the lifts thereafter as it had severely inconvenienced residents and could have had dire consequences if someone had been ill during the incident."

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...reak-down-for-about-4-hours-leaving-residents
 

The_Hypocrite

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Re: Sinkies Getting Used To HDB Lift Breakdowns! Waited 4 Hours For Repairs! Guess Wh

Who did the residents vote for?
 

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4 HOURS is considered fast. they could choose to wait till 9pm for MPS and sit through another 4 more for a session
 

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Isn't it funny ,lift breaks down, MP show up....come on....eventually ,left vendor has to fix the problem..MP also want to get credit,brownie points??

Singapore is a very funny island.
 

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Scdf could have been activated for contingency plan. First call first serve fireman jack ladder :biggrin:
 

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Isn't this part of the superheavy weight Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC with 6 MP's of which 4 are Ministers-
Mr Teo Chee Hean (Dy PM & Coordinating Minister for National Security), Mr Ng Chee Meng (Minister for Education (Schools) & Second Minister for Transport ), Mr Teo Ser Luck (Minister of State, Ministry of Manpower & Mayor, North East District ) and Dr Janil Puthucheary (Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Education ).
4 ministers to look after them and yet........????
You add up the 4 ministers and 2 MP's salaries-more than the President of USA leh-who is busier and has more responsibility?-looking after the US of A or Punggol and Pasir Ris?
Punch above its weight?,Betterer Fasterer, Cheaperer? ,
 
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Lifts, trains, rats, flood, etc is a regular feature of life in Singapore under Lee Hsien Long. Then we have one of his deputy Tharman who tell us that we are actually better off, we receive subsidies and in some cases are better than countries in Europe. I remember clearly during a previous election when GCK claimed that Chiam's Potong Pasir would not be able to undertake lift replacement exercise for Toa Payoh ageing estate due to cost and lack of expertise. Not only Chiam did it but he did it much cheaper than HDB when the latter did it for other estates.

When you hear Hon Sui Sen and his cabinet colleagues say something. We know that it will be done and no excuses will be given. Look at Viv Balakrishnan. Not only did he go over budget for a YOG by a huge amount, it was so badly organised with volunteers down with food poisoning, venues empty, school kids bussed by force to attend events and his answers were never sound when asked. Look at Yaacob and his achievements. This guy has single handedly built a censorship regime that more onerous it is constantly tweaked. When George Yeo ran it, he removed much of the previous draconian regulations.

Even simple things like lifts they cannot maintain and they going to develop Jurong Lake Precint!!
 

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I can easily climb 20 floors so why the chinaman cannot climb 17 floors? It will only take 10 minutes assuming half a minute one floor. Good for the heart also instead of waiting for 4 hours.
 

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Scdf could have been activated for contingency plan. First call first serve fireman jack ladder :biggrin:

For the going down one even better . Just jump down to the air bag.
 

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Isn't it funny ,lift breaks down, MP show up....come on....eventually ,left vendor has to fix the problem..MP also want to get credit,brownie points??

Singapore is a very funny island.

Lift breaks down, PAP shows up to show lots of love and concern for the affected residents. In the meanwhile, oppies continue to jiak liao bee and show up only during the election period. No wonder sinkies won't vote for them.
 

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Lift breaks down, PAP shows up to show lots of love and concern for the affected residents. In the meanwhile, oppies continue to jiak liao bee and show up only during the election period. No wonder sinkies won't vote for them.


With so many problems in Spore the PAP is desperate for any photo opportunities lah. Remember when Schooling won the gold medal all the useless MPs started coming out of the woodwork to steal the limelight, even though they never supported him.

When there are problems like Zika, MRT breakdowns ,..... they will all will scamper away like rats. How can anyone respect such people?
 
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I can easily climb 20 floors so why the chinaman cannot climb 17 floors? It will only take 10 minutes assuming half a minute one floor. Good for the heart also instead of waiting for 4 hours.
eh bang, with the rest and relac time at the void deck, i oso can do the same :wink:
"I waited outside for four hours and went home only after 10pm. Actually, the lifts have been breaking down at least once a month since September last year. This has been very inconvenient for us, but we're also used to it by now," he said.
typic sinkie mentality - having been conditioned to accept this, it's stockholm syndrome at its best :cool:
 

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The escalator in AMK MRT is being boarded up repairs. Period of repair? 1 year!! And us under CNA's GRC.

4 hours down time and repaired is lightning speed and the MIWs should be commended and a huge raise with corresponding promotion in the pipeline.
 

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The escalator in AMK MRT is being boarded up repairs. Period of repair? 1 year!! And us under CNA's GRC.

4 hours down time and repaired is lightning speed and the MIWs should be commended and a huge raise with corresponding promotion in the pipeline.


AMK station is the only station that has a traffic light for commuters. So it must be used heavily.

They probably are going to replace rather than service the escalators there. Maybe they are waiting for the chinese parts along with the replacement for the cracked trains:biggrin:
 

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who they vote for?

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Waterway cascadia is mainly 3 room n 2room flats.
This is why.
 
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