Tuesday, May 29, 2007

More trains for a comfortable ride

I took the MRT train at 9.40 am this morning. This is the off-peak period.

The train arrive at intervals of 7 minutes. It was packed all the way from Yio Chu Kang station to Raffles City station. I had to stand all the way.

During the peak period, the train run at intervals of 3 minutes. I can understand that it is difficult to put more trains due to safety issues.

During the off-peak period, it should be possible to run more tains (say 1 train every 5 minutes), so that the train is not so crowded and more commuters have the chance of a comfortable ride.

I hope that SMRT will take this factor into consideration, and run more trains during the off-peak hours.
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I took a train from Spore Expo at about 11am on 29th May 2007. The interval was about 10 min.
As a commuter, I wish to have more frequent train services and seat available especially if I am travelling from, say Boon Lay to Tampines. But if this happens very often, this means there are quite a lot of trains which are not fully loaded. This will increase the operating cost which would be passed to the commuters.

starlight

May 29, 2007 10:37 PM
Anonymous said...

it's all about money making and forget about "public" transportation service spirit.

if not how else you think SMRT stocks hit $1.9 plus and give you fat dividends?

who are the majority share holders? I am thinking must be those who hardly use the MRT. what a contradiction.

May 30, 2007 9:04 AM
Anonymous said...

I wonder whether the government has a say in social concerns in SMRT's operations, e.g. to consider increasing frequency of trips. Or how much social responsibility does SMRT has?

June 01, 2007 9:45 PM
Anonymous said...

i agree with you. it's terrible waiting so long during off peak hours

June 03, 2007 2:35 PM
Anonymous said...

60mins / 7mins = 8.5trains needed
60mins / 5mins = 12trains needed
60mins / 3mins = 20trains needed

June 15, 2007 2:34 AM

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