It’s the last day of work before the Christmas celebrations, but the weekday blues aren’t going out without a fight. Commuters had to face delayed travel time on the East-West Line this morning from as early as 5.33am — no trains were running between Outram Park and Aljunied due to a fault.
[EWL] No train service between #OutramPark & #Aljunied due to a traction power fault near #Bugis.
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) December 22, 2016
Though train services resumed shortly around 5.43am, the track fault added 10 minutes of extra travel time further down the green line from Tanah Merah to Eunos MRT stations heading towards Joo Koon.
[EWL]: Due to a track fault, pls add 10 mins travel time from #TanahMerah to #Eunos towards #JooKoon. Train service is still available.
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) December 22, 2016
Train services only resumed to normal speeds just before 10am.
[EWL]UPDATE:Track fault cleared, trains are progressively returning to normal speed from #TanahMerah to #Eunos towards #JooKoon .
— SMRT Corporation (@SMRT_Singapore) December 23, 2016
All in all, not a good start to the Friday — and folks made that real clear to SMRT.
