MRT delay on North-South Line during peak hour due to platform door fault
SINGAPORE - Trains heading towards Marina South Pier on the North-South MRT Line were delayed by a screen door fault during peak hour on Friday morning (March 19). At 8.28am, operator SMRT told commuters on Twitter to add 10 minutes of travel time from Ang Mo Kio to Braddell due to a platform screen door fault. Mr Arjun Nair was on his way to work from Khatib MRT station to Tanjong Pagar MRT station when an automated announcement informed him around 8.20am that his train would be delayed because of the fault at Bishan. "The train slowed down at Yio Chu Kang station, where it started to jerk as it moved," said the 26-year-old health and safety officer. He alighted at Ang Mo Kio MRT station and waited for close to 20 minutes. He watched two "packed" trains go by before boarding one. "A lot of people were looking at the time," he added. "Some tried to jump the queue and board the train." Other commuters said on Twitter that the delays were longer than 10 minutes, with several lamenting that they were late for work. Twitter user yzfanggg said at 8.44am: "It took me 30 minutes travel time from AMK to Bishan and I'm late for work, it would be great if y'all don't lie about the travel tim...
Close shave for Punggol East home owner as glass door shatters suddenly
SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) - A mere four seconds was the difference between Mr Sito Rong Feng walking unscathed into his kitchen and being hit by a sliding glass door as it shattered into smithereens. When the wedding photographer had the close shave last month, his first thought was the safety of his 15-month-old twin sons who were playing in a playpen in the living room of the family's Punggol East flat. He found pieces of the tempered glass in the playpen, but his boys were unhurt. Glass was scattered across the living room, and Mr Sito, 38, and his wife, Ms Eldora Lie, 33, sustained minor cuts on their feet. "If I had walked slower, I would've got injured. Worse, if my boys had been sitting on their high chairs at the dining table, they could have been seriously hurt when the glass fell," he told The New Paper on Thursday (March 4). "My wife also does work at the dining table all the time. So I guess you can say it was good timing that this happened when no one was there." Footage from a closed-circuit television camera shows the door exploding with a loud sound and crashing onto the floor about four seconds after Mr Sito walked into the kitchen. Mr Sito said before they moved i...