Enjoy shorter waiting time and more comfortable train rides

last SG · 2008-05-19T00:03:39+00:00

i guess they are trying to make things better and more efficient.

QX179R SG

Commuters to enjoy shorter waiting time and more comfortable train rides

http://www.smrt.com.sg/Upload/200851616414859171.pdf

hiphop2009 SG

ok la.

give dem some credits. haha

Novawin SG

At least, SMRT is better than SBS Transit.

SBS Transit should increase the frequency for its NEL and reduce the waiting time to 2 minutes as low during morning peak period. Most of time, the waiting time between trains during morning peak period is always 4 minutes or more. Some people at Boon Keng, Farrer Park and Little India waiting to board train, will have some difficult to get into crowded train on Harbourfront-bound. No good.

That's why I love SMRT and give them thumb up.

sbst275 SG

Heck

The lunch time additional trips aren't full trips, they're short working trips

Ang Mo Kio <-> Marina Bay, Aljunied <-> Outram Park

Airbus330Captain SG

At least, SMRT is better than SBS Transit.

That's why I love SMRT and give them thumb up.

Please tell me you are joking. Have you ever taken MRT at Boon Lay mrt station? Taken mrt at 10 pm on weekdays and see the "wonderful" frequency and crowd on the trains? Have you ever taken mrt from Yishun to Jurong East direction in peak hours?

Trust me, they are a lot of worse than SBST.

Novawin SG

Trust me, they are a lot of worse than SBST.

Why should I be joking? What can you expect more from SMRT?

You have to understand that Singapore population is like "exploding" in the way that more crowd is expected in SMRT train that some people will have difficulty of boarding and getting into crowded train.

SMRT is working very hard to increase frequency by bring in more train trips.

If you are not satisfied with SMRT service on Boon Lay MRT situation, you just give them feedback.

SBS2695H SG

SBST is better in managing buses while SMRT is better in managing trains. So its fair.

Novawin SG

SBST is better in managing buses while SMRT is better in managing trains. So its fair.

Agreed. At least SMRT has tried their best to improve train service by reducing waiting time and adding more train trips. Why SBST cannot do the same thing for its NEL train service?

sbst275 SG

SMRT is working very hard to increase frequency by bring in more train trips.

If you are not satisfied with SMRT service on Boon Lay MRT situation, you just give them feedback.

eh... if you can say ppl at Little India has prob boarding... I can say Somerset is worst... door open, immediately buzzer would sound up, many are totally unable to board during peak hrs

Or say City Hall... even 3 trains cannot board, once SMRT staff made announcement asking ppl not to squeeze as there's train at Raffles Place (I dunno but seriously it's on a Weekday, lots of ppl working at Raffles Place going home)

Oceane SG

Heck

The lunch time additional trips aren't full trips, they're short working trips

Ang Mo Kio <-> Marina Bay, Aljunied <-> Outram Park

At least they did something to rectify the lunch crowds along the city stretches.

One should know that most of the working pop. lies in the city area, and to introduce SWT between AMK and MRB would be enough.

I wonder which worker would take a train to Jurong just for his lunch?

Oceane SG

Trust me, they are a lot of worse than SBST.

Charles, please tell me you're joking too. SMRT is already trying every possible way to improve on its frequency. They could have just sat down and watch people squeeze, but then, why did they introduce 700 train trips per week during lunchtime and peak hours?

At least they did something. Not as if they did nothing. It's very similar to your thread on the OC500LE posters & advertisements. They did something, not nothing. Even if it did not work out well enough, the fact is they DID SOMETHING.

Oceane SG

eh... if you can say ppl at Little India has prob boarding... I can say Somerset is worst... door open, immediately buzzer would sound up, many are totally unable to board during peak hrs

Sorry. Next week SMRT will start asking all TOs to leave their doors open for 5 minutes to let people board.

Let's just say that, the faster the train clears the station, the more fluctuated the train system becomes. You want a train to wait at a station for 1 minute during peak hour, and jam the rest behind? After all, people want more trips, SMRT add liao, but then they need to balance off with stopover time at the stations. There is no such thing as everything you want. Even if they sound buzzer immediately, they can't close the doors if people are boarding, right?

Oceane SG

SBST is better in managing buses while SMRT is better in managing trains. So its fair.

Like what carbikebus said, SBST NEL personnel and Sentosa's Monorail systems all consult SMRT Corporation on courses and heavy maintanence on trains.

It may seem unbelievable to some people who are anti-SMRT (Not just anti-SPH, but they choose to generalise and anti the whole SMRT Corp). But it's time we smack the truth on their faces.

Manager433 SG

Dun blame for the pack trains during peak hour. Find out how many 'FT' from a east asia country are living in Sg first. I give my own guess --------> 900,000

Minus this figures and you will be able to board any trains during peak hours and may even get a seat.

sbst275 SG

At least they did something to rectify the lunch crowds along the city stretches.

One should know that most of the working pop. lies in the city area, and to introduce SWT between AMK and MRB would be enough.

I wonder which worker would take a train to Jurong just for his lunch?

The EWL one for sure 1st few days dua luan

sbst275 SG

Sorry. Next week SMRT will start asking all TOs to leave their doors open for 5 minutes to let people board.

I've said tis bef long time ago abt the crap of sounding e buzzer immediately after the door open.. so end up should e commuter even bother abt boarding when ppl haven't even alight buzzer is alrdy sounded...

Let me say tis and I hope tis would never occur - stampede because one just goes panic and starts pushing

sorry tat's e operator prob, passenger's safety over this buzzer comes 1st

anyway carry on like tis, only commuters lugi

Oceane SG

Let me say tis and I hope tis would never occur - stampede because one just goes panic and starts pushing

sorry tat's e operator prob, passenger's safety over this buzzer comes 1st

anyway carry on like tis, only commuters lugi

Whatever it is, the minimal stopover time is 15 seconds. TO cannot depart earlier than 15 seconds unless under special circumstances (like train breakdown that causes whole system to haywire).

Speaking of buzzer, the edited announcements system has a very fast buzzer. Compared to the previous version this one is quicker by around 1.5 seconds.

Oceane SG

The EWL one for sure 1st few days dua luan

Hopefully not... SMRT places SWT by the radius of the areas that the lunch croud would most likely go to... no point starting SWTs in far away places like Boon Lay because it would be a waste of resources.

Which means commuters that travel between Aljunied and Outram Park will get to enjoy half the previous waiting time.

sbst275 SG

Whatever it is, the minimal stopover time is 15 seconds. TO cannot depart earlier than 15 seconds unless under special circumstances (like train breakdown that causes whole system to haywire).

Speaking of buzzer, the edited announcements system has a very fast buzzer. Compared to the previous version this one is quicker by around 1.5 seconds.

meainng to say, there's no biz for him or her to sound e buzzer immediately.... but it's a daily affair cos very simple, you can anything you like but dun get caught like something bad happened

simply to say, it's like 'no govt'

SBS n SMRT SG

i know wrong forum but must say that SMRT should rectify their buses as what they had did for their trains, btw, NEL frequrency was bad

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