Yesterday Singapore experience the worst MRT breakdown in history when the North-South train service broke down just before 7pm and was recovered only fully around 11.30pm... Luckily I was home early yesterday hence not affected else I will be like Kao Bei Kao Bu liao since I only need to travel from Raffles Place to Dhoby Ghaut, a short 2 station ride before switching to NEL.

Heard many were in complete darkness as power to the trains were down and had to wait in aircon-less cabins for at least an hour before help were send by the staff... Some passengers even broke the windows to allow air into the trains and it seem that the authorities were unhappy about it... Come on the train service is down, no power and aircon, what is so wrong about breaking a few windows to let air in!


I can understand if train service go down once in a while but the fact that the authorities were unhappy over passengers breaking windows... Does it mean that the lives of the passengers are not as valuable as a window???


If they do not want people to break their windows, I think SMART should include backup power supply on each train/cabin so that in an event such incident happen again at least there will be light and aircon available. If they dun then dun complain when people start breaking the windows to allow ventilation.

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