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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...426860/1/.html SMRT's train frequency to be reduced if flu alert hits red By Kheng Siong & Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 04 May 2009 2123 hrs SINGAPORE: SMRT said train frequency will be reduced by 30 per cent once Singapore's pandemic alert level hits red. This is because its service staff are divided into two teams to prevent the potential spread of the H1N1 virus. -------- reduced by 30 per cent = MRTs more packed = More chances of the virus spreading = WTF?

Dear all, I am looking for a Tomy/Tomica "Thomas and Friends" train set, model is Spencer. Pic as below Anyone seen it in SG ? Do share ur tips... else gonna try ebay. thanks mice

http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Sto...ory_348514.html I WAS attacked on a train last Friday by a commuter who failed to obtain a seat from me. My assailant pushed me to the ground and pummelled me repeatedly. When I reported the matter at the control booth in the Bugis station, I was advised to seek treatment and lodge a police report. But I did not file a police report after I was told by the officer at the Bedok North station that a report would not help catch my assailant as the police and the train officials could not identify him. This advice was given despite the fact that I had told the woman police officer that I could identify the man easily and that there were many witnesses to the attack. The police officer's reply was that the above was of no help as his actual identity was still unknown. The officer added that I should have used the emergency button to stop the train to allow the train staff to detain the assailant. I find the explanation I was given puzzling. It is absurd that the authorities are unable to investigate an assault in public on a train, and offer little but sympathy over the incident, even if the injuries I suffered were not severe. Poh Yi Hao

Ghost Train in Guangzhou? interesting.... also have same stories here in our MRT... last time heard abt Bishan and Novena stations...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../404406/1/.html SINGAPORE: Public commuters may get the break many have been asking for this year. Bus fares and train fares are coming down. In light of the Budget announced Thursday, where a big focus was on helping companies cope with costs, public transport operators SBS Transit and SMRT have now said they will not apply for any fare adjustment this year. In fact they are working with the Public Transport Council (PTC) to pass on savings they will receive from this year's Budget to commuters. Welcoming the move, the PTC said in a statement released Friday all parties are committed to reduce bus and train fares for this year. In light of the difficult economic times, the PTC will expedite its work. It aims to announce the reduced bus and train fares by the end of next month. - CNA/yb

I am driving a honda civic. recently, whenever my car goes above 80, as a driver, i can feel the car below 'de de de de de' in a constant rythm, like as if it is a train driving on the track. whats wrong huh? is it suspension problem?

http://www.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%...1112-99979.html better not complain too much complain about too crowded during rush hours, seats removed next time complain about lack of air-cond MRT remove the roof of the MRT train and when rain need to bring umbrella good luck to us

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Bus and train fares up on 1 October Posted: 12 September 2008 1032 hrs Photos 1 of 1 SINGAPORE - Most bus and train journeys except those for children, students and national servicemen, will see fare changes from 1 October 2008. The Public Transport Council (PTC) has given the green light for an overall net fare adjustment that will result in fare changes that will range from a 7-cent reduction to a 4-cent increase per journey. Adult EZ-Link fares on buses and trains and the senior citizen concession EZ-Link fare, will see a flat increase of 4 cents per ride. However, this will be offset by the 15-cent increase in transfer rebate from the current 25 cents to 40 cents. Public transport operators have also decided that they will bear 10 cents out of the 15-cent increase in the transfer rebate. Therefore, fares for most adult or senior citizen concession journeys will see a range of adjustments, from an increase of 4 cents for a direct journey with no transfer, to a reduction of 7 cents for a journey with one transfer. According to the PTC, journeys with more transfers will see a greater fare reduction, ranging from 18 cents for a journey with two transfers and 29 cents if there are two transfers. To fund the higher transfer rebate, transport operators will give up more than $30 million in fare revenues annually. As for the remaining 5-cent increase in the transfer rebate, the PTC said it will be redistributed amongst commuters, as they will benefit from it. Chairman of the PTC, Gerard Ee said "by raising the transfer rebate this year and making the operators absorb a larger part of the cost, we managed to strike a balance and keep the overall net fare adjustment to just 0.7%, much lower than the fare cap of 3%."

Mother and passenger on platform wrestled to get baby when door closed on pram with baby inside and moved off. But the train did stop in the end. http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=...train_doors.wmv

luxury train facilities (japan)

Check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h-uVThKygo

THREE times unlucky was how creative director Damien Yang, 39, summed up his recent experience with MRT train doors that apparently closed on passengers without warning. Mr Yang had waited to board a train at Raffles Place MRT station last Wednesday at about 6.30pm, but had its doors close on him abruptly instead. He managed to squeeze out. 'The doors normally close a few seconds after the alert sounds. How can they close at the same time? 'That defeats the purpose of the alert,' said Mr Yang, who was on his way to meet a friend at Outram Park station. His experience got worse at Outram Park, where he and his friend, Ms Sophie Chu, 28, a content and media specialist, took a train to Chinatown station. As they boarded the train, they heard 'a loud yelp' as doors closed on passengers 'at the same time when the alert sounded'. Although no one was visibly hurt, they said passengers had to leap quickly to safety to avoid the closing doors. At Chinatown MRT station, they observed the same thing happening to another passenger, Mr Yang said. The pair approached the station control office, and were told by its staff that the trains had to reach a 'target timing' during rush hour. He added that commuters 'just have to learn' how to avoid the closing doors. A spokesman for SMRT Corp, which operates the Raffles Place station, said: 'After our investigations, all trains that day observed the stringent procedures when the doors closed.' SMRT said its train doors are calibrated such that the 'closing speed is reduced when (the doors) are about to close' to reduce the impact on commuters caught by the doors. Doors can also be pushed open to 'allow a trapped person or object to be extricated'. If doors are not shut, the train driver is alerted by an indicator light in his cabin, the spokesman said. SBS Transit vice-president of corporate communications, Ms Tammy Tan, said that its 'doors are pre-programmed to close after a pre-determined amount of time'. The company operates the North East Line, which Outram Park and Chinatown stations are part of. Ms Tan added that its trains run without a driver and doors open when 'an object is caught by doors' - a safety feature required by the LTA. A worker was stationed at Outram Park station that evening to direct commuters to 'a less crowded area' of the platform, she claimed. She added that the staff member at Chinatown station has been counselled for his 'lack of tact' in his response to Mr Yang. Both companies maintained that there has been no change in train dwell time - the duration when commuters board and alight from trains - during peak hours. In Future Peak Hrs Different Fare

I'm seriously considering train journeys for my vacations. Oil prices are sky high and the budget carriers are not that budget anymore. I'm seriously considering drive and train. Drive to KL Sentral then train to Bangkok or something. Pseudo backpacking transport. Girls are over 2yrs and even the child rates aren't attractive for a family. I know KTM isn't exactly clockwork but it will be a different experience. I'm targetting the sleeper cabins and buying the tix in MYR since I'll be boarding at KL Sentral.

Perhaps it wld be effective for SMRT to employ train marshall to prevent pple eating on train, grooming, peeing and also following encounter:- http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singapor...nt.jsp?id=22907

In China at least the Director of Railway has to be accountable. Can The Director say he didnt have a hand in the driver speeding the train? Can he say he didnt lay the railway tracks? Can he say he didnt make the derailed coaches? At least someone other than the tea lady is held accountable here. Ok I know I know, lets move on, forgive and forget. If other people makes mistakes will they be so magnanimous and forgiving and forgetting? At least 70 people have been killed and 400 injured, many of them seriously, after two trains collided at dawn in eastern China, state media have said. A train travelling from Beijing to the summer resort of Qingdao derailed and hit the other, which was going from Yantai to Xuzhou. Nine coaches of the Qingdao-bound train toppled into a ditch after the crash, outside Zibo city in Shandong province. Just hours after the crash, an inquiry concluded it was caused by human error. Two senior railway officials have already been sacked, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The crash is the second major railway incident in Shandong this year. In January, 18 people died near the city of Anqiu when a high-speed train from Beijing hit a group of track-maintenance workers. Rescue operation Monday's crash is the worst in China since 1997, when 126 people were killed when two trains collided in central Hunan province. It happened at 0443 local time (2043 GMT on Sunday) at a bend in the tracks in the suburbs of Zibo, about 70km (43 miles) east of the provincial capital Jinan. Both of the passenger trains are likely to have been operating at high speed at the time of the accident, railway workers said. It is not clear what caused the first train to derail and its carriages to topple into a ditch. The second was also derailed, but remained upright. Witnesses said many passengers climbed out of the wreckage and wrapped themselves in bed sheets from the sleeper cars to protect against the early morning chill. One passenger who escaped through a hole in a carriage with her 13-year-old daughter said she had been sleeping when the accident occurred. "I suddenly woke up when I felt the train stopped with a jolt. In a minute or two it started off again, but soon toppled," she told Xinhua. At least 70 of those injured in the crash were in a critical condition in hospital, Xinhua said. Four French nationals have been hospitalised with bone fractures. Dozens are receiving treatment at the Zhoucun village People's Hospital, one of several involved in the rescue work, it added. "Most are slight cases and more people are being sent in every hour," a hospital worker told Xinhua over the telephone. "Some of our medical workers have gone out for rescue work, too." Railways Minister Liu Zhijun has arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue effort, while Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang is also en route to assist, Xinhua said. The city government of Zibo has sent a 1,500-member team to help and console the victims' families, the state-run agency reported.

Ministry calls for investigation into cause of derailment BERNAMA The Transport Ministry has asked that an investigation be conducted to find the cause of the Sabah train crash in Tenom yesterday. Its Minister, Datuk Ong Tee Keat said intial investigation showed that the crash was because of soil erosion along the banks of Sungai Padas.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna/cgi-bin...=SMRT&id=340087 SINGAPORE: Transport operator SMRT has clinched the "Best Passenger Experience" award at the inaugural Metro Awards 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Metro Awards is part of MetroRail, an annual conference of the urban rail industry worldwide which met from 1 to 3 April this year. Other finalists of the "Best Passenger Experience" award included Copenhagen Metro, MTR Corporation Limited (Hong Kong) and The Warsaw Metro Ltd. They were judged on factors such as value for money, efficiency and reliability, as well as cleanliness and security. SMRT said the international award for service excellence came shortly after it won the "Most Customer-Friendly Transport" award, presented by Singapore's Land Transport Authority. ================================================================================ =============================== Are they kidding??

MRT lines to double by 2020, 100 new train stations to be built By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 25 January 2008 1218 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Related News

Are lower train fares possible? Look to HK FOLLOWING the merger of Hong Kong's two major train operators, the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) and the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, the territory's government has announced a reduction in fares. According to a press statement of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region dated Nov 22 on its website, http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/infrast...1122en06009.htm, 'About 2.8 million commuters will enjoy lower fares from Dec 2 when Hong Kong's two rail companies merge. Annual fare concessions are expected to reach HK$600 million. 'The Mass Transit Railway Corporation's Octopus smart-card users (Hong Kong's version of the ez-link card), will see fare reductions, with more than half enjoying a 5 per cent saving. All adult Octopus cardholders will pay 20 cents less per trip minimum, while long-distance fares at $12 or above will be cut by at least 10 per cent... 'With the removal of a second boarding charge, passengers interchanging between the Mass Transit Railway and Kowloon-Canton Railway networks will have fares cut by up to $7.' I have been using Hong Kong's railways at all hours for the past fortnight and I find that the frequency of trains ranges between one and three minutes. Although it is winter now (temperature between 19 and 25 deg C), the air-conditioning in the trains functions very well in spite of the heavy commuter traffic. In addition, the trains are relatively clean and well maintained and the images of the live programmes on mobile television installed in the KCR trains are always clear and smooth. In contrast, Singapore's trains arrive every five to eight minutes and the air-conditioning leaves much to be desired, especially for aboveground journeys in the afternoons. Yet, we have been told constantly by our transport operators and the Public Transport Council that fares have to go up annually because of higher oil prices, inflation and the higher cost of maintenance. Perhaps it is time for the Government and industry in Singapore to learn from Hong Kong. Liew Kai Khiun Hong Kong Well said,man!! When is Spore private companies be as efficient and effective as other country??? [thumbsdown]

I'm just speechless when I saw this. Just waiting for 'them' to cook up some story. Taken from STOMP. http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost5127.aspx [inline 070828_ss_mmmrt.jpg]http://www.stomp.com.sg/ss/070828_ss_mmmrt.jpg

Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE: Both SBS Transit and SMRT have applied to the Public Transport Council to raise bus and train fares. The exact fare increment will be determined later, using a standard formula, in this annual fare revision exercise. Energy costs have been a big drain on the two big public transport operators. Both companies have quoted rises of between 20 and 26 percent in this area alone. SBS Transit said manpower costs