An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Last Monday, I made one of my irregular trips on the MRT. I entered Eunos Stn in the late morning and one of the escaltors was closed “for maintenance”. I returned home via another route partly to avoid walking down the stairs on the return journey
Last Friday, I again took the MRT from Eunos Stn. Guess what? The escalator was still closed for “for maintenance”. When I made the return trip (wanted to eat at a great but expensive Malay food stall at Eunos Hawkers’ centre: stall always asking why I don’t eat more regularly and I explain to them I don’t use the MRT that often), several hours later, the escalator was still not working.
Err how to expect train services not to be disrupted (five already this yr according to TRE*) if cannot even repair or service escalator within five days? But to be fair, maybe engineers too busy repairing tracks etc to bother about escalator. Got to prioritise everything, according to jnr tpt minister Jos Teo.
I will have to again use the MRT from Eunos this Wednesday and then the following Monday (yah lot of travelling these few weeks: pushing my luck leh), and I’ll keep readers informed.
Meanwhile, avoid the stock. It’s going to take huge fare rises to make it a gd dividend yielding stock again because it needs to spend more, a lot more to get (and then keep) the trains running on time. With an election likely in 2015, these fare increases are unlikely
http://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/12/...more-probable/
Meanwhile, I wish MRT users a disruption free day, though the odds are rising against this probability.
Thinking about it, SMRT may have closed one of the Eunos escalators to save money as per this story about the London MRT (tube) system.....
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http://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/01/...hy-smrt-sucks/
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com.
27-01-2014, 01:20 PM
Is Desmond shutting down escalators in MRT stations to save costs?
