Delay on Downtown line on Tuesday evening due to signalling fault
The Down Town Line (DTL) experienced delays due to signalling fault at Tampines station on Tuesday evening. Commuters were left wondering for an hour odd for the cause of delay as the SBS transit, did not announce the cause of the delay immediately.
A commuter, Daniel Lim tweeted at 6:34pm stating that the DTL stopped for a while:
https://twitter.com/danielZXlim/status/940530219378556929
Other tweets informed that the DTL train has been stuck at Bugis for the past 10 minutes at 6:47pm and also at Telok Ayer towards Expo at :708pm:
https://twitter.com/iamjosiahtan/status/940533474338861056
https://twitter.com/gtcalpha/status/940538938749468672
Other commuters also tweeted about the delay and their disappointments, but many thought that the DTL is operated by the Singapore Mass Rapid Transport (SMRT):
https://twitter.com/ChickenMacabre/status/940534691555192833
https://twitter.com/TasDBJo/status/940536416227901440
https://twitter.com/jchowjs/status/940537617728266240
https://twitter.com/LOWLIQIAN/status/940537945664102401
Julian Chow wrote in his tweets that the staff were clueless about the train delay and couldn’t give good information; However, Julian also thought that SMRT is the one responsible though he added that the staff were not to blame:
https://twitter.com/jchowjs/status/940539886066589696
https://twitter.com/jchowjs/status/940540088596828160
Other commuters directed their questions to SBS Transit, asking why the trains had long stops at each station:
https://twitter.com/farhamb03/status/940543169501937664
https://twitter.com/djzul/status/940545908956995586
Finally at 7:47pm a tweet from SBS Transit gave some info that the delay was caused by a signaling fault at DT32 Tampines Station:
https://twitter.com/SBSTransit_Ltd/status/940548639591559169
And at 8:13pm, SBS informed that the normal service on DTL has resumed:
https://twitter.com/SBSTransit_Ltd/status/940555263915859969
However, at 9:15pm a commuter tweeted that DTL at Upper Changi Station experienced delay:
https://twitter.com/tanhuiyi/status/940570921173000192
