At 7:51am this morning a tweet informed of a delay along North South Line (NSL) towards Marina South Pier:
delay along NSL towards Marina South Pier. train at AMK overshot, delay in departure. #smrt #delay #nsl #amk #southbound
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 5, 2017
xlcliangx then advised commuters to add additional travelling time of 5-10mins on NSL southbound after Ang Mo Kio (AMK):
do add additional travelling time of 5-10mins on NSL southbound after AMK. #smrt #delay #nsl #southbound
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 5, 2017
xlcliangx also posted other tweets subsequently:
do expect delay along NSL towards Marina South Pier after AMK. current train overshot AMK n Bishan. #smrt #nsl #southbound #delay #bishan
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 6, 2017
do not attempt to board if u r travelling along NSL towards Marina South Pier. #nsl #smrt #delay #southbound #trainfault
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 6, 2017
Another netizen also tweeted about the delay and lack of twitter update from SMRT:
https://twitter.com/aviebambi/status/927325545037049856
Many tweets followed, SMRT kept silence:
current train at Braddell is out of service. expect huge commuters at Braddell #smrt #nsl #delay #trainfault #southbound #braddell
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/coffeetulips/status/927327082320838657
those onboard train b4 braddell, pls kindly move towards center of train. huge commuters at braddell. #nsl #smrt #delay #trainfault
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 6, 2017
extreme crowded at braddell station due to train fault. pls cooperate those on NSL southbound b4 braddell to move inwards #smrt #nsl #delay
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 6, 2017
faulty train hav been removed from service. do expect congestion n delays along NSL southbound after AMK. #smrt #nsl #delay #southbound
— xlcliangx (@xlcliangx) November 6, 2017
Delay in NSL from Khatib till Bishan… No tweets are made by SMRT… Wa liao… Waste my time… For God sake got delay tweet la.
— 沈福顺,Johnny (@johzsim) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/ILOVEEEXANDERRR/status/927335728563888130
@SMRT Y’all been “apologizing for the inconvenience caused” the past few years but there hasn’t been much improvements with the trains aye
— // Charissa // (@charissatung) November 6, 2017
Signaling fault, not track fault:
https://twitter.com/waeiluen/status/927342140958449664
https://twitter.com/waeiluen/status/927342341874053120
Past 9am and commuters were still experiencing delay on NSL, more tweets were posted:
https://twitter.com/rosyip/status/927345727465955328
Lots of excuses #smrt ! Initially was "train fault" on NSL. Then "due to train ahead, this train will be delayed".
— Claudia (@Claudia00887226) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/waeiluen/status/927347258068164608
https://twitter.com/syanenigans/status/927347499228053504
@SMRT_Singapore it's happening again .slow and stopping NSline
— oh roy (@ohsushiroy) November 6, 2017