East-West Line Delays Commuters using the East-West Line this morning were probably very, very angry. That’s because they faced a second straight day of delays today. Today’s delays affected the stretch between Jurong East and Clementi but had a domino effect, basically affecting the entire line. SMRT blamed the delays on a track fault at Clementi. The fault occurred at about 7am between Clementi and Jurong East MRT stations. But it took the operator more than an hour to update its Facebook page with news of the delay. This isn’t the first time that a train operator has kept quiet about a possible delay. SBS Transit did the same thing in May. It was chaos at Jurong East station as commuters tried to board trains that weren’t moving. Submitted by a MustShareNews reader And it wasn’t better at the bus interchange either, where commuters tried to squeeze onto bridging buses to Queenstown. It’s easy to see why SMRT asked commuters to add 40 minutes to their journey time. Submitted by a MustShareNews reader The delays come a day after the East-West Line was hit by a 15-minute delay. That was the result of a platform screen door fault. Tuesday’s services […]
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