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WHY SMRT DON WAN PROVIDE NIGHT RIDE

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  • SGidoits's Avatar
    59 posts since Apr '08
    • use to stay til mid night at place far away my house but mrt close at 12 plus…if take taxi pocket = 1hole. why don they provide night ride? example 1 trains per hour is enuff during midnight?

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    8,875 posts since Feb '08
  • I miss old annoucements's Avatar
    313 posts since Mar '08
    • Originally posted by SGidoits:

      use to stay til mid night at place far away my house but mrt close at 12 plus…if take taxi pocket = 1hole. why don they provide night ride? example 1 trains per hour is enuff during midnight?


      Maybe 20 mins frequency?

  • takahashi32399691's Avatar
    69 posts since Mar '08
  • SGidoits's Avatar
    59 posts since Apr '08
    • i meean trains not buses night rider buses onli go to some place onli bus trains go almost every where

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    QX179R's Avatar
    8,875 posts since Feb '08
  • redDUST's Avatar
    1,580 posts since Mar '08
    • i think part of the tracks actually undergo maintainence in the wee hours....hence there is no service

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    8,875 posts since Feb '08
    • Originally posted by redDUST:

      i think part of the tracks actually undergo maintainence in the wee hours....hence there is no service

      that's part of the reason too..unless you want to have trains derailed due to the faulty tracks which are not maintained

  • SGidoits's Avatar
    59 posts since Apr '08
  • I miss old annoucements's Avatar
    313 posts since Mar '08
    • Originally posted by SGidoits:

      i don think by addin 1 train per hour will affect their maintain?


      They will have to turn on power for the 750V DC third rail even if it is just one train but I think there was once during Chinese New Year when trains ran overnight.

  • SGidoits's Avatar
    59 posts since Apr '08
    • but even like tat wont waste too much energy ba at most 5 trains per midnight onli, they mus understand la now taxi realli is open by loanshark one

  • I miss old annoucements's Avatar
    313 posts since Mar '08
    • Originally posted by SGidoits:

      but even like tat wont waste too much energy ba at most 5 trains per midnight onli, they mus understand la now taxi realli is open by loanshark one


      I believe they will charge a higher fare if there are night rides.

  • rlsh07's Avatar
    10,304 posts since Jun '07
  • SBS9888Y's Avatar
    4,050 posts since Nov '06
    • Originally posted by SGidoits:

      but even like tat wont waste too much energy ba at most 5 trains per midnight onli, they mus understand la now taxi realli is open by loanshark one

      LOL. once this service starts. we'll see train disruptions every week.

      night time they need maintain their tracks esp now cos super old le. 22 years.

      Edited by SBS9888Y 22 Apr `08, 3:35PM
  • purpledragon84's Avatar
    1,753 posts since Sep '07
  • I miss old annoucements's Avatar
    313 posts since Mar '08
    • I think SBST should provide its usual services at overnight at 20-25 mins frequency.

      Edited by I miss old annoucements 22 Apr `08, 5:22PM
  • Oceane's Avatar
    3,354 posts since Jan '07
    • Originally posted by SGidoits:

      use to stay til mid night at place far away my house but mrt close at 12 plus…if take taxi pocket = 1hole. why don they provide night ride? example 1 trains per hour is enuff during midnight?


      Maintanence people need to inspect the tracks at night... to turn on the 750V DC power it would simply just fry them alive. Do remember the crew needs to get on the track too to inspect every inch of the track.

  • GHoST_18's Avatar
    19,237 posts since Jun '03
  • aiglosicicle's Avatar
    1,247 posts since Mar '06
    • Originally posted by Oceane:


      Maintanence people need to inspect the tracks at night... to turn on the 750V DC power it would simply just fry them alive. Do remember the crew needs to get on the track too to inspect every inch of the track.

      yea. i see it often (i live next to a track). anyway in terms of cost it is not feasible to have night trains running. town area maybe got lots of people but what about the rest of the line?

  • TIB1224Y's Avatar
    442 posts since Sep '07
    • Trains at night can only be feasible in long distance rail systems. Throughout the World, there are really few train systems which run trains overnight with regualr frequency, as in trains come in 20-30 min or any other fixed frequency. Even Japanese or European systems reserve the night track usage to sleeper trains and freight trains.

      Track maintenance is one thing, the usability is also another... Repair works can be done while train is running, just that the responsibility of the train operators must be there. Working on the tracks is dangerous business.

  • Go's Avatar
    124 posts since Jan '08
    • Good idea. If they want to promote sg as a night city, they should implement night trains.

  • Oceane's Avatar
    3,354 posts since Jan '07
    • Originally posted by Go:

      Good idea. If they want to promote sg as a night city, they should implement night trains.


      I think people still do not get the point. Like what 1224Y says, SMRT doesn't have night tracks. If only they saw further and built night tracks so that day tracks can be inspected at night while night tracks can be inspected in the day.

      Unfortunately, Singapore does not have these because it's land area is too small.

      There are night buses running though.

  • 我又郁闷了...
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    49,422 posts since Sep '03
    • Originally posted by SGidoits:

      i don think by addin 1 train per hour will affect their maintain?

      Need to repair track how? It's not always inspection then do nothing.

  • TIB1224Y's Avatar
    442 posts since Sep '07
    • Originally posted by Oceane:


      I think people still do not get the point. Like what 1224Y says, SMRT doesn't have night tracks. If only they saw further and built night tracks so that day tracks can be inspected at night while night tracks can be inspected in the day.

      Unfortunately, Singapore does not have these because it's land area is too small.

      There are night buses running though.

       

      Its hard to differentiate night and day tracks...

      For example, on large systems and where trains run on express (stop at few stations), rapid (stop at selected stations) local (stop at every station) a large corridor would be needed. Like in the States, there is the North East Corridor, which features four tracks parallel or more, and trains can run in the same direction on two tracks. In mass rapid systems like Sg, its not necessary.

      Track inspection as in between the proposed night trains. If i can put one train on the North South Line per 30 minutes, then an inspection train will be placed somewhere between. Eventually the train would chase up to the inspection train but that would be at an area where there is a siding. Tracks will not need to be inspected everyday, and if our system is old, the Japanese, European, States systems how? They use the same track for 50-100 years and it still can support. The main thing is the electric system, that is where inspection is compulsory. Tracks leave it to daily operation observance will do good. Now we have things like Ultrasound inspection and so on, what is difficult...

  • SGidoits's Avatar
    59 posts since Apr '08
    • there is sure someways to find out for smrt having night rides if they wan i think. human is creative XD

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