Cross Island Line travel time will take 6 minutes more with skirting route: Khaw
February 29, 2016
ricky l7 seconds ago
This yahoo report may probably not capture the significant of what 6 minutes is translated to - during peak hours.
I guess during peak hours every 2 minutes - 1 MRT will arrive.
For a 6 carriage MRT - 1 carriage will carry about 100 commuters - thus 600 commuters per car.
For 6 minutes - 1,800 commuters will be commuted - and when this is multiply by a 6 hours (peak hours - morning and evening) - the 6 minutes delay can be very substantial - as hundred and thousands of commuters will have been commuted.
This is I believe the message the Minister is trying to convey.
Michael44 minutes ago- ricky l14 minutes ago
ricky l7 seconds ago
Eg. Sin Ming MRT crowd during peak hours build up to 600 commuters. If shorten by 6 minutes, 1800 commuters will have clear the Sin Ming MRT platform and head to Bukit Timah station.
If delay for 6 minutes, 1,800 commuters will build up at Sin Ming MRT given that this Cross Country line is a major line and is a heavily patronized interchange station where other MRT lines will be connected to this line.
Isn't a 6 minute delay significant if crowd build up - and MRT is not fast enough to clear the commuters?
Vincent1 hour agocannot increase the frequency of the trains?
ricky l7 seconds agoIncrease the frequency of trains - means 3 more trains per 6 mins. 6 peak hours - how many more trains? What will be the cost of so many more trains?In interchange station, every 2 mins arrival will unload 600 commuters per train.So can compute the commuters traffic?
ricky l7 seconds ago
That means on top of $2 billion we pay for skirting, still have to pay multi-millions dollars more for more MRT trains to make up for the 6 minutes.
