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SMRT to be fined $3m for major East-West Line disruption in September 2024
A likely cause is degraded grease in a part of the train undercarriage, said LTA. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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"However, SMRT had extended the interval between overhauls for the train beyond the requirement of doing so after every 500,000km travelled, LTA said. The train was to have been overhauled only after it has travelled for 750,000km. At the time of the incident, the train had logged 690,000km since its last overhaul in July 2018." So now do they still say they need to raise fare to do more thorough overhaul??
Shifting goalposts, what’s new lol
Chef kiss, buried the true root cause. “As axle box failures are not common, SMRT did not undertake a detailed engineering and risk assessment on extending the axle box overhaul interval,” said LTA. They have no technical justification to extend the overhaul interval other than greed. Fuck these people.
Everyone should look up the history on how we reach this stage. At the very beginning, Govt first spent hundred of millions of dollars build out MRT, created SMRT to operate, it also allow the Singaporeans to participate in the growth of the nation by allowing Singaporeans to own shares of SMRT. It then took a different track to prioritise profits above everything else and the infrastructure degraded to a point that breakdown became a national issues. To “fix” that, the Govt then spent billions more of tax payers dollars buying up SMRT asset, and took it private. Basically take tax payers money, to buy back something that was originally funded by tax payers. They then further pushed maintenance regime, beyond manufacturers parameters and that lead to a huge breakdown and now they are pumping billions more to “improve” reliability.
Raising retirement age but for trains
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