Netizens want SMRT to wake up their idea Last night (14 July), SMRT’s Managing Director of Trains, Mr Lee Ling Wee, spoke up on TV about SG’s worst MRT breakdown in history. Source He confessed that the transport giant, raking in $2.2 million a year, could not handle the wrath of 7/7. And although he tried to justify SMRT’s actions of shutting down the entire NSEW lines that night, netizens just aren’t buying it. Mr Lee vs The Internet According to Channel NewsAsia, Mr Lee never wanted to turn 250,000 Singaporeans’ usual Tuesday peak hour routines ugly. Mr Lee on SMRT’s problems “That was a very dreadful moment. It was peak hour and 250,000 commuters will be inconvenienced, among which we have Muslim Singaporeans who are going back to break fast. But what is the alternative? The alternative is to continue, which means it may get more trains stuck between stations.” Source “One train has about 1,500 passengers and if you have 10 trains stuck between stations, it means we have a situation whereby we have to evacuate 15,000 people walking on the track – you think about it, children, students, pregnant ladies, the elderly – that is a situation I didn’t want to […]
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