Singapore starts weekend with late night breakdown along East-West Line
After the many breakdowns during the morning and evening rush hours this week, SMRT is faced with a service disruption along its East West Line (EWL) that will continue past midnight.
Singapore Mass Rapid Transport (SMRT) first informed of a delay at 9:53pm Friday (10 Nov) evening that due to a train fault, commuters are to add 30 minutes of travel time from Bugis to Queenstown station and noted that the fault is not linked to the new signalling project.
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/928984033416986629
Followed by its usual tweet that free regular bus services is available between Bugis and Queenstown in both directions:
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/928984645504450560
Though SMRT announced the delay at 9pm, commuters have tweeted about the slow down and delay since around 7pm on Friday.
https://twitter.com/SharuleSkinny/status/928940388802371584
https://twitter.com/ryaanhnnfi/status/928950555266789376
https://twitter.com/hey_yougorgeous/status/928952346230575105
https://twitter.com/lifesux_rin/status/928957324256878597
https://twitter.com/Nicobcn2/status/928957371073814528
https://twitter.com/yjhpng/status/928981895932657665
https://twitter.com/TonySky888/status/928982883796107267
https://twitter.com/dk/status/928983475780067328
There are also comments made on the North-South Line:
https://twitter.com/FGoh99/status/928961307675574272
The late night delay didn’t go well for the tired commuters:
https://twitter.com/khaopadkon/status/928984191466749952
https://twitter.com/gnvcwh/status/928985054314872832
https://twitter.com/Oliverchoi89/status/928986941986447362
https://twitter.com/lifesux_rin/status/928988789799710721
https://twitter.com/jpglicious/status/928989136501043201
https://twitter.com/TonySky888/status/928991100169216001
At 10:37pm, SMRT tweeted that the fault was cleared:
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/928994968907083777
But complaints still flooded Twitter:
https://twitter.com/_ardianugraah/status/929002271194546177
https://twitter.com/_ardianugraah/status/929002960004071424
https://twitter.com/gxueting/status/929003416688267264
https://twitter.com/gxueting/status/929003496568799232
https://twitter.com/WirathaW/status/929003791457796096
It turned out that the commuters were right, at 11:15pm SMRT tweeted again about the service disruption:
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/929004531534381056
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/929004796715057153
Tweets from commuters kept coming in:
https://twitter.com/WirathaW/status/929005104937680896
https://twitter.com/nursh1fa/status/929005221220466688
https://twitter.com/cielru/status/929005317139996672
https://twitter.com/kimichuan/status/929005454348378113
https://twitter.com/kh2ouija/status/929006111054639105
https://twitter.com/gxueting/status/929006229736656896
https://twitter.com/SamTan117799/status/929006507064115200
https://twitter.com/PegaKok/status/929006579432660992
https://twitter.com/putridhiraaz/status/929006686571872257
https://twitter.com/arielle_kiel17/status/929007851179094017
https://twitter.com/entangledream/status/929009953783689217
And was the bus service free?:
https://twitter.com/tanyueting/status/929008476017213440
https://twitter.com/prashantrar/status/929014281009381376
Again at 11:38pm SMRT informed:
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/929010448665473026
This was really a rather long night (and day):
https://twitter.com/CryptXus/status/929012592898596864
https://twitter.com/rightclick5ave/status/929013447294980096
https://twitter.com/halcyoneus_x/status/929014289314103296
https://twitter.com/icanhokeypokey/status/929014352866246656
https://twitter.com/jeycea_/status/929014614238441472
https://twitter.com/icanhokeypokey/status/929014900663320576
https://twitter.com/WEIXUANNN/status/929001554681593858
https://twitter.com/lifesux_rin/status/929017816857985024
Commuters tweeted to share their thoughts and complaints about the delay.
https://twitter.com/kwzane/status/929029961008037888
https://twitter.com/DesmondWEBD/status/929030529072033792
And again at 12:13am, SMRT updated that there was no train service from Bugis to Tanah Merah towards Pasir Ris:
https://twitter.com/SMRT_Singapore/status/929019096032624641
