"In August, the Land Transport Authority and SMRT announced plans to lower the speeds of escalators at train stations, following a recommendation, to make it safer for senior citizens.
Work began in August to modify 233 escalators in 42 of 54 stations along the North-South and East-West lines. It is due to be completed by 2021."
Quoted from: 64-year-old in coma after MRT escalator fall, published Nov 16, 2016, 5:00 AM SGT
Versus
Think about the above, both of them are also 'public' transport. I feel that public transport should have some form of social responsibility in terms of providing service and not be profit driven nor should it be a publicly traded equity (at least it used to be, now it is privatised)
In SMRT's defense, the escalator incident is allegedly user's unstable footing that caused the fall.
The repaired-in-48-hour-sinkhole sunken again a few days later and was repaired again.
The repaired-in-48-hour-sinkhole sunken again a few days later and was repaired again.
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