Following the five-hour service suspension yesterday, allegedly caused by a broken cable on the Tseung Kwan O line, the government has decided to fine MTR Corporation HK$7.5 million dollars and have requested a report of the incident filed within three working days.
MTR certainly deserves some sort of punishment, as it was the longest suspension of service in the eleven-year history of the Tseung Kwan O line. In fact, there have already been two cases of service suspension on the Tseung Kwan O line just this year – one where a platform door in North Point station caught fire and the other a signal system breakdown from Yau Tong station to Tiu Keng Leung station.
Passengers were not happy campers, with some forced to get off the train and walk on the tracks to the closest station. Other commuters experienced long waits for emergency shuttle buses.
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Source: The Standard
