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 Mass Rapid Transit
(MRT) Rail System NEWS SNIPPETS
2005
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Armed police patrols on MRT trains from 15 Aug 2005
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MRT extension to link NEL's Chinatown station to Marina Bay
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Man jailed for
bomb hoax |
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A man was jailed for 2½ years yesterday for
a bomb hoax. Mak Hoy Meng, 29, had handed
over to an MRT employee two notes which
claimed there was a bomb in one of the
stations. |
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Source: Straits Times 11 Mar 2005 (H6) |
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2004
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Safety
at MRT and LRT stations |
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"Despite
the various safety measures in place, there have been more
than 220 cases, where commuters were found trespassing on
the tracks at above-ground MRT and LRT stations, between
1991 and 15 September 2004. |
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"Eighty-seven
percent of such cases were non-accidental acts, which
involved commuters jumping onto the tracks to retrieve
personal items, walking, running or taking short cuts to
another platform, and acts of suicide....." |
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SMRT to
conduct more patrols on platforms |
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SMRT has
doubled the number of patrols at its 35 open-air platform
stations to try to make sure commuters stay behind the
yellow safety line until the trains have stopped. It will
not put up full-height screen doors, estimated to cost
more than S$220 million, at these platforms. |
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Source:
Straits Times 21 Sep 2004 H5 |
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See also: Community
Issues: MRT Accidents |
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Man fatally
hit by MRT train after fall |
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A man died
when he fell and was hit by an oncoming train at Bishan
MRT station yesterday afternoon. This is the second fatal
accident at this station. |
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See also: Community
Issues: MRT Accidents |
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Source:
Straits Times 16 Sep 2004 (H6) |
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12
people killed by oncoming trains since 1991 |
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Since
the MRT system started in 1991, there had
been 224 cases of people straying onto the
tracks. Of these, 12 were killed by oncoming
trains. |
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Source:
Straits Times 3 Sep 2004 (H1) |
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Two women
fall into path of MRT trains, 1 dies |
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A 50-year-old
Chinese woman died after she fell off the platform and was
hit by an MRT train at Bukit Batok MRT station yesterday
afternoon. In a separate incident, another woman, in her
40s, suffered serious head injuries and an open fracture
in her right leg when she fell off the platform and was
hit by an MRT train at Redhill MRT station yesterday
evening. These are the third and fourth such incidents in
just over a month. LATEST: The second woman has died in
hospital. (1 Sep 2004) |
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Source:
Straits Times 1 Sep 2004 (3) |
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Man falls
on MRT tracks, survives being run over by train |
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A man who fell
onto the tracks at Bukit Batok MRT station yesterday
suffered crushed toes when a train pulling into the
station ran over him. |
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Source:
Straits Times 15 Aug 2004 (3) |
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Man falls
and dies at Bishan MRT station |
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A 31-year-old
Chinese man died after falling on the track in front of an
oncoming train in Bishan MRT station at about 1pm
yesterday. The tragedy disrupted the northbound service
between Toa Payoh and Ang Mo Kio MRT stations for about an
hour. |
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Source:
Straits Times 29 Jul 2004 (6) |
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MRT
employee jailed for bomb scare |
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Mohamed
Ansari, 33, a customer service officer with SBS Transit,
was yesterday jailed for 3½ years for leaving a bomb
hoax box on a North-East MRT train on 15 Apr 2004. He is
the third hoaxer convicted under the United Nations
(Anti-Terrorism Measures) Regulations of 2001. |
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Source:
Straits Times 22 Jun 2004 (3) |
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