TR EMERITUS

Maintenance staff replacing the wooden sleepers (ST Photo). On Saturday (3 Aug), SPH’s bilingual news and entertainment portal (www.omy.sg) published an interesting article [Link] claiming that the timber sleepers used in our MRT network have been discovered to be made of sub-standard wood. The article claimed to have heard... 

[UPDATE: LTA has issued a statement on its Facebook page assuring the public that MRT sleepers are indeed made of quality timber. It describes SPH's article alleging otherwise as "inaccurate" and "irresponsible" - 'LTA: MRT sleepers are made of quality timber'.] On 14 May 2013, ST reported that SMRT and LTA will accelerate... 

A resident living in 6th Ave wrote to TR Emeritus (TRE) to highlight his concerns that an abandoned MRT site at 6th Ave may breed mosquitoes ('Who will ensure that abandoned MRT sites don’t breed mosquitoes?'). He even took pictures of the abandoned site: He said, "The MRT site at 6th Ave used to be buzzing with lots of activities...