[kangtangman]

I remembered sometime back where the lady boss of SMRT was reported to have lack of maintenance for a period of 10 years during her rein in that position.

Which resulted a major breakdown some 10 years ago (can’t remember the exact year) and that brought her having to leave the post. She received no responsibility or accountability for what she has caused, and ironically she has received all those bonuses during her tenure and possibly when she leave her post.

And the country ended up having to pay for the repairs or replacements as well as fare increased over the past years to soften the “losses” spent in up keeping the train services.

Now with the aging trains, rail tracks, etc., high maintenance costs will be needed, and the only way is to increase fare.

But Minister now oppose the link between fare adjustments and train service reliability, don’t understand his rationale.
He seems to forget or probably refused to recall that the crux of the problems began long ago due to the lack of maintenance some 10 years ago. Therefore resulted now needed higher cost in keeping the serviceability of the train network. Just my opinion.