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Sinkapore SMRT Vs Thai MTR and BTS.. Breakdown Vs Breakdown
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Re: SMRT cover up train breakdown incident today 15/3/2016
BREAKING - boarded train in City Hall towards Joo Koon, trained stopped for more than 3 minutes; arrived at Raffles Place train stopped for 5 minutes, announcement say train delay due to track fault :oIo:knnbccb
BREAKING - boarded train in City Hall towards Joo Koon, trained stopped for more than 3 minutes; arrived at Raffles Place train stopped for 5 minutes, announcement say train delay due to track fault :oIo:knnbccb
Re: SMRT cover up train breakdown incident today 15/3/2016
Airport link debacle, perhaps over shadowed by our EW's unfortunate fatalities
Ministers slam rail link for rescue chaos
Passengers collapsed from heat prostration after an Airport Link breakdown trapped them inside the cars Monday morning.
SRT Electrified Train, which operates the Airport Rail Link (ARL), has been ordered to find the party responsible for the shambolic rescue operation which took place after one of its trains broke down on Monday, stranding hundreds of passengers in hot carriages.
Deputy Transport Minister Ormsin Chivapruck said Tuesday he had instructed the company to find out who should be held accountable. He added ARL management will be penalised for failing to properly maintain the system, which led to the break-down.
A power failure halted the train and trapped more than 700 passengers in stuffy carriages without air conditioning for an hour en route from Suvarnabhumi airport to the city on Monday morning.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said SRT Electrified Train, a subsidiary of the State Railway of Thailand, must be investigated for leaving its emergency backup power system out of order for months.
"I have checked. The airport link has had problems for a long time. No one has bothered to pay attention," Gen Prayut said.
He said the ARL trains would be modified to carry more passengers, and the company would not buy additional trains at this time. The six-year-old ARL route stretches about 29 kilometres from inner Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi airport, east of the capital.
Mr Ormsin said the company had failed to maintain the rail system and take sufficient care of commuters.
The deputy minister said he expected the purchase of new emergency power backup units for seven stations, at a cost of 32 million baht, would be approved by the SRT board by next Tuesday.
He said Gen Daran Yuthawongsuk, the director and acting president of the company, had been aware of the decrepit emergency backup power system since October last year, but failed to fix the problem even though he had the authority and money to do so.
Mr Ormsin said the SRT board had allocated the company 380 million baht for an overhaul of the system, but management opted for a partial overhaul.
Each ARL train requires a major overhaul after it has run 1.2 million kilometres.
However, the trains have each clocked up between 1.5-1.6 million km.
Gen Daran admitted Tuesday staff must improve how they deal with passenger rescues.
They should have opened the train doors for stranded passengers to allow air to circulate and advised them to remain on board.
The rescue was hampered by some passengers who managed to escape from their carriages and who descended onto the rail tracks, which prevented the train from being towed to the station quickly and added to the delays.
Airport link debacle, perhaps over shadowed by our EW's unfortunate fatalities
Ministers slam rail link for rescue chaos
- Bangkok Post 23/03/2016 at 04:00 AM
Passengers collapsed from heat prostration after an Airport Link breakdown trapped them inside the cars Monday morning.
SRT Electrified Train, which operates the Airport Rail Link (ARL), has been ordered to find the party responsible for the shambolic rescue operation which took place after one of its trains broke down on Monday, stranding hundreds of passengers in hot carriages.
Deputy Transport Minister Ormsin Chivapruck said Tuesday he had instructed the company to find out who should be held accountable. He added ARL management will be penalised for failing to properly maintain the system, which led to the break-down.
A power failure halted the train and trapped more than 700 passengers in stuffy carriages without air conditioning for an hour en route from Suvarnabhumi airport to the city on Monday morning.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said SRT Electrified Train, a subsidiary of the State Railway of Thailand, must be investigated for leaving its emergency backup power system out of order for months.
"I have checked. The airport link has had problems for a long time. No one has bothered to pay attention," Gen Prayut said.
He said the ARL trains would be modified to carry more passengers, and the company would not buy additional trains at this time. The six-year-old ARL route stretches about 29 kilometres from inner Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi airport, east of the capital.
Mr Ormsin said the company had failed to maintain the rail system and take sufficient care of commuters.
The deputy minister said he expected the purchase of new emergency power backup units for seven stations, at a cost of 32 million baht, would be approved by the SRT board by next Tuesday.
He said Gen Daran Yuthawongsuk, the director and acting president of the company, had been aware of the decrepit emergency backup power system since October last year, but failed to fix the problem even though he had the authority and money to do so.
Mr Ormsin said the SRT board had allocated the company 380 million baht for an overhaul of the system, but management opted for a partial overhaul.
Each ARL train requires a major overhaul after it has run 1.2 million kilometres.
However, the trains have each clocked up between 1.5-1.6 million km.
Gen Daran admitted Tuesday staff must improve how they deal with passenger rescues.
They should have opened the train doors for stranded passengers to allow air to circulate and advised them to remain on board.
The rescue was hampered by some passengers who managed to escape from their carriages and who descended onto the rail tracks, which prevented the train from being towed to the station quickly and added to the delays.
Re: SMRT cover up train breakdown incident today 15/3/2016
Train stop aircon no stop. Ok what. You want to trains to run over poor technicians again?
BREAKING - boarded train in City Hall towards Joo Koon, trained stopped for more than 3 minutes; arrived at Raffles Place train stopped for 5 minutes, announcement say train delay due to track fault :oIo:knnbccb
Train stop aircon no stop. Ok what. You want to trains to run over poor technicians again?
myo539 passed the baton to u?
https://www.facebook.com/ChannelNews...3527219852934/
SINGAPORE: Some passengers found themselves walking on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) tracks in near-darkness in Sengkang on Tuesday evening (Mar 29), due to a train fault.
Off-duty cameraman Rajamohann Alrum Murugaiah said he was on the train travelling from Sengkang station to Renjong station at about 7pm when it stopped suddenly about 150m to 200m from Renjong station. He said the lights and ventilation fans went out for about five minutes, before coming on again.
SBS Transit first announced the disruption on Twitter at 7.57pm, saying there was no service on the East Loop of the LRT, and that free bridging bus services were available. It later stated at 8.22pm that services on the West (outer loop) of the LRT were also unavailable.
At 8.31pm, SBS Transit said full LRT service resumed.
Mr Rajamohann said while there were announcements on the train about the disruption, SBS staff only arrived about 20 minutes after the breakdown. They tried but failed to restart the LRT train, before two or three staff finally asked passengers to alight from the carriage and guided them towards Renjong station at around 7.30pm to 7.40pm.
There were about 30 people inside the train, but Mr Rajamohann said he did not observe any panic among his fellow passengers.
"It was after work ... I think they were just tired and frustrated," he said.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/....html?cid=fbsg
SINGAPORE: Some passengers found themselves walking on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) tracks in near-darkness in Sengkang on Tuesday evening (Mar 29), due to a train fault.
Off-duty cameraman Rajamohann Alrum Murugaiah said he was on the train travelling from Sengkang station to Renjong station at about 7pm when it stopped suddenly about 150m to 200m from Renjong station. He said the lights and ventilation fans went out for about five minutes, before coming on again.
SBS Transit first announced the disruption on Twitter at 7.57pm, saying there was no service on the East Loop of the LRT, and that free bridging bus services were available. It later stated at 8.22pm that services on the West (outer loop) of the LRT were also unavailable.
At 8.31pm, SBS Transit said full LRT service resumed.
Mr Rajamohann said while there were announcements on the train about the disruption, SBS staff only arrived about 20 minutes after the breakdown. They tried but failed to restart the LRT train, before two or three staff finally asked passengers to alight from the carriage and guided them towards Renjong station at around 7.30pm to 7.40pm.
There were about 30 people inside the train, but Mr Rajamohann said he did not observe any panic among his fellow passengers.
"It was after work ... I think they were just tired and frustrated," he said.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/....html?cid=fbsg
