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08-07-2015, 05:50 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

And so we come to Mr Lui and Mr Kuek.

It has been at least 3 years since Mr Kuek took on the job, and many more since the problems with the train system first emerged. Singaporeans and commuters have had to endure one breakdown after another, with no end in sight.

The Government has pumped in billions of taxpayers’ money – including rewarding the PTOs a million dollars just for providing basic dependable service.

It was only in April this year, after all these years of breakdowns, that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said it was “looking for experts to assess the health of the entire rail network as the regulator and operators grapple with glitches that do not seem to go away.”

Calling them “glitches” is surely an understatement.

And accountability remains elusive.

Singaporeans can expect that nothing will happen – except perhaps more injection of http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015...t-to-the-test/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/massive-breakdown-govts-claim-of-accountability-put-to-the-test/)


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