Have UNACCEPTABLE Lui Considered his own resignation yet?

[virus]

Of course he is not responsible for the breakdowns and the poor maintenance but he definitely failed as a minister for transport.

Other than taken a few rides on the MRT, he is still clueless as what the main cause is.

No corrective measures taken to date except the on-going COI which will eventually leads to more regimental preventive maintenance

No amount of maintenance could move a pickup if you load an elephant on it

Seems like he is more interested in protecting the SMRT's revenue by refusing to introduce a parallel bus route to alleviate the overcrowding and overloading problems.

He neither exhibit nor react with any sign of urgency to mitigate these problems

he is not clueless.. he is merely wayang kulit to tell the public it will cost more than the #1 billion we gave to SBS and $4 billion we gave to IMF to sovle this and with plenty of inconvenience.

Do remember, he was singing praise of Saw just like mrs $600K peanuts singing praises of TTDurain. He even go on the record to saY these operators were spening $16 mil on maintenance. guess what in 2 day later, he say 3.5 hours only is not enough to carry out proper maintenance. No wonder cable ties comes in handy as a million$ solution.

 

[freedalas]

what's there to be fair or unfair? anyone who suggest this is merely offering his or her left cheek to be slapped as well. all these so called leaders who are merely fair weather politicians, collect million $ paycheck beri khiang. come to solving problem all siam like anything.

It would certainly be unfair if Lui is the only one who pay the price for the MRT fiasco and the real culprits like Mah BT, Yeo Cheow Tong, Raymond Lim and Ho Ching all get away scot free isn't it?

 

[winnipegjets]

The once efficient Singapore Inc is now shown to be another fat organization. The current failure of the transit system is symptomatic of a failing country.

 

[TwitSeng]

don't know leh. i think he still quite ok leh

 

[uncleyap]

<iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_HBjOLuJXxk#t=385" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> So repetitive and prolong and worsening are these crisis of our Mass Public Transportation System, it is way beyond a quality issue is it SAFETY ISSUE and economic losses and damages issue, because it delays lots of important matters and activities in SG. If doctors did not get to work at hospital in time and got trapped in trains instead, it could mean patients dead. WAF! It is not happening elsewhere, not HK MTR, not Taiwanese 捷运, nor KL LRT etc. Just uniquely SG, uniquely Lui! During the previous minister era wasn't so bad (yet!)

 

[rusty]

It would certainly be unfair if Lui is the only one who pay the price for the MRT fiasco and the real culprits like Mah BT, Yeo Cheow Tong, Raymond Lim and Ho Ching all get away scot free isn't it?

So far nothing has happened to Lui so the question of fairness is immaterial.
If he continues to sit on his arse without thinking of how to overcome the crowd problems he ought to be fired.
MBT, YCT & RL did not create the overcrowding which is causing the frequent breakdowns.

 

[freedalas]

So far nothing has happened to Lui so the question of fairness is immaterial.
If he continues to sit on his arse without thinking of how to overcome the crowd problems he ought to be fired.
MBT, YCT & RL did not create the overcrowding which is causing the frequent breakdowns.

I was responding to the comments of some forummers who were suggesting for Lui's resignation. So in that context, the question of fairness is relevant [which should be the right word to use instead of immaterial(sic)]. The issue isn't one of over-crowding. The issue is that MBT, YCT & RL had ignored and rejected earlier plans to ramp up the MRT infrastructure and maintenance regime in anticipation of the rail system getting old and ridership increasing. And that's the reason why SMRT budget maintenance is only 8% compared to a typical 18% to 20% of railways elsewhere.

 

[rusty]

I was responding to the comments of some forummers who were suggesting for Lui's resignation. So in that context, the question of fairness is relevant [which should be the right word to use instead of immaterial(sic)]. The issue isn't one of over-crowding. The issue is that MBT, YCT & RL had ignored and rejected earlier plans to ramp up the MRT infrastructure and maintenance regime in anticipation of the rail system getting old and ridership increasing. And that's the reason why SMRT budget maintenance is only 8% compared to a typical 18% to 20% of railways elsewhere.

Thanks for the clarification and the relevant suggestion. I didn't read the earlier cos of intermittent connections.
In any case, if Lui think he can relax with an excuse from his predecessors' mistakes, he better pray hard if nothing is done on the overcrowding.

 

[freedalas]

Thanks for the clarification and the relevant suggestion. I didn't read the earlier cos of intermittent connections.
In any case, if Lui think he can relax with an excuse from his predecessors' mistakes, he better pray hard if nothing is done on the overcrowding.

No worries, bro. Your comments about Lui are very true. If he's thinking of putting all the blame on his predecessors and does nothing, he's equally culpable, if not, more so.

 

[NoNewsGood]

To be fair to Lui Tuck Yew, he inherited the problems from his predecessors namely Mah Bow Tan and Yeo Cheow Tong. Through years of neglect by Mah and Yeo, the problems are now too deep-setted to be rectified within a short span of time.

I know quite a few engineers who were once with either MRTC, LTA and SMRT. According to them, the officers then had been submitting plans after plans for a robust maintenance regime including regular changing of essential parts and systems during Mah and Yeo's time. Unfortunately, their plans were rejected soundly each time or cut down in size and scope with the two ex Transport Ministers blasting them for being too extravagrant.

The final straw was Ho Ching's appointment of Saw Phaik Hwa. In appointing Saw, Ho Ching told her that she was not appointed to drive trains (Saw actually repeated this to reporters at SMRT press conference on her appointment as CEO). Instead she was instructed by Ho Ching to focus on building up the revenue from SMRT's retail outlets. Saw therefore hardly spent any time on the rail operations and the operational staff were largely ignored.This led to mass resignations of operational staff, some of which are the engineers who related all these to me. Saw then start filling up SMRT with her own people from the retail sector and who know nothing about rail operations. Little if at all, was any attention paid to the rail operations, whom Saw thought is self running. All these culminated into what we have today, train failures day after day.

The real culprit is actually none other than Ho Ching. It was she who shifted SMRT focus away from rail operations to retail. It was she who appointed Saw PH, a totally non-technical person to run SMRT. It was she who told her she was not appointed to drive trains, thereby giving her courage to ignore the train operations.

The list of witnesses for the Committe of Inquiry contains all the names connected to the train disruptions, all except for the one, and ironically it is the one who is most responsible. As with all her previous failures such as Temasek's massive losses during the financial crisis (amounting to billions of taxpayers monies), she has immunity.

Thanks for sharing the insider information!

 

[Seee3]

To be fair to Lui Tuck Yew, he inherited the problems from his predecessors namely Mah Bow Tan and Yeo Cheow Tong. Through years of neglect by Mah and Yeo, the problems are now too deep-setted to be rectified within a short span of time.

I know quite a few engineers who were once with either MRTC, LTA and SMRT. According to them, the officers then had been submitting plans after plans for a robust maintenance regime including regular changing of essential parts and systems during Mah and Yeo's time. Unfortunately, their plans were rejected soundly each time or cut down in size and scope with the two ex Transport Ministers blasting them for being too extravagrant.

The final straw was Ho Ching's appointment of Saw Phaik Hwa. In appointing Saw, Ho Ching told her that she was not appointed to drive trains (Saw actually repeated this to reporters at SMRT press conference on her appointment as CEO). Instead she was instructed by Ho Ching to focus on building up the revenue from SMRT's retail outlets. Saw therefore hardly spent any time on the rail operations and the operational staff were largely ignored.This led to mass resignations of operational staff, some of which are the engineers who related all these to me. Saw then start filling up SMRT with her own people from the retail sector and who know nothing about rail operations. Little if at all, was any attention paid to the rail operations, whom Saw thought is self running. All these culminated into what we have today, train failures day after day.

The real culprit is actually none other than Ho Ching. It was she who shifted SMRT focus away from rail operations to retail. It was she who appointed Saw PH, a totally non-technical person to run SMRT. It was she who told her she was not appointed to drive trains, thereby giving her courage to ignore the train operations.

The list of witnesses for the Committe of Inquiry contains all the names connected to the train disruptions, all except for the one, and ironically it is the one who is most responsible. As with all her previous failures such as Temasek's massive losses during the financial crisis (amounting to billions of taxpayers monies), she has immunity.

I have another side of the story. Some 20 years back, when MRT was new I had 2 lazy NSmen under my care. They often got themselves into trouble and no choice had to interview them. To my surprise they were all from MRT maintenance unit - what a coincident. I asked them what was their routine job? They told me that they were suppose to inspect the rail after midnight but all will just go through the motion and spend most of the time sleeping.

Back then, I need to meet officers from different govt. organisation on submission and approval. I didn't particularly like those from PWD-road which later became LTA. They gave me the impression that their sole objective in every meeting is to push away responsibility. So I think LTA didn't have a good start. Coincidentally, remembered attending a meeting on crisis involving MRT tunnel/disruption. They were represented by junior staff and their attitude was simply bo chap. It was a bomb waiting to explode since then and it finally blow up. Hope Lui will live up to what I have heard of him. However, I must say he is quite ass-luck as the bomb exploded during his watch.

 

[batman1]

The no porn lui Chou Bo LAN rear sea admiral does not fit into the land-based mrt or transport organization.
he should resign so that he can hv more time to play with his toy submarine in his longbath.

 

[myfoot123]

It is no news that MRT breaks down these days, and trapping passengers inside.

Rather that when we have a stretch of days during which MRT don't breakdown it will be a news!

:*:

Time again for Lui Tuck Yew to consider resignation, it does not help to drag the by-election at all.

UNACCEPTABLE? So where is the resignation letter? Signed yet?

Resignation is definitely Acceptable Admiral Lui!

Sound to easy. I suggest the whole transport ministries from LTA to PTC. SMRT to SBS all have their management staffs sacked, that also include HO JIN who is the ultimate culprit helming all these institutions!