NEL seems faster on non-peak periods but still loses out during
peak hours...
speaking of train arrivals... some of the NEL ETA boards
are placed in very unstrategic locations... take Serangoon
station for eample. have to walk all the way into the station to
the top up machines to see train arrivals and i have missed trains
when i am in a hurry countless times.
especially at interchange stations, like outram and dhoby, just
because the linkway belongs to SBS, the SMRT ETA boards are placed
just at the SMRT station side rather than in the linkway itself
like at the bottom of the 5 escalators going up towards the SMRT
side. and there should be an SMRT ETA board at the start of
the outram linkway on the sbs side.
Oh yes the boards at Serangoon Station. i agree, they could have
been located at a better place (the 2 entrances at concourse level
for example, or at the control there).
usu the LED boards at the street level entrances will display
arrival time(yellow for harbourfront and red for punggol), they
will alternate between HBF and PGL quickly enough for u to catch
the timing, but if sometimes HBF or PGL dont show up, usually it
means train has already arrived... usually if they display 2 min on
the led screen it means u have to walk fast or run already....
as for the Outram/Dhoby interchange which u mentioned, this
problem has always been my concern years back but not major enough
for me to voice it out here, so thanks for mentioning this. I have
always thought that if NEL belonged to SMRT alone they would have
the sense to display arrival times of both lines at both sections
of each station....now theres this SMRT and SBS 'territory" at
Dhoby and Outram Interchange stations.
