SMRT became a Tuesday morning punching bag for commuters after both its North-South Line (NSL) and East-West Line (EWL) were inundated by delays caused by track faults.
It all started around 7.19am when commuters had 10 minutes added to their travel time on the NSL from Bishan to Khatib MRT station, in the direction towards Jurong East. By 8.47am, the track fault at Khatib heaped another 20 minutes delay for commuters.
[NSL]: Due to a track fault, pls add 10mins travel time from #Bishan to #Khatib towards #JurongEast. Train service is still available.
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) April 17, 2017
[NSL]UPDATE:Pls add 20mins travel time from #Bishan to #Khatib, due to a track fault at #Khatib. Train svc is still available.
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) April 18, 2017
As if that wasn’t bad enough, a track fault Simei MRT station was reported around the same time. At 8.35am, commuters on the green line were told to expect a 10-minute delay from Paya Lebar to Simei MRT station. The delay increased to 15 minutes by 9.02am.
[EWL]: Due to a track fault, pls add 10 mins travel time from #PayaLebar to #Simei towards #PasirRis. Train service is still available.
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) April 18, 2017
[EWL] UPDATE: Pls cater 15 mins additional travel time from #PayaLebar to #Simei. We are working to recover service.
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) April 18, 2017
As of writing, SMRT is still “working to recover service”. It’s been non-stop tweets of telling commuters to add X amount of minutes to travel time since. Looks bad, man.
