North East Line

SBS Transit deployed free regular bus services between Punggol and Serangoon MRT stations. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Because of the signalling fault, it took more than an hour for him to travel nine stops to Woodleigh, where he got out at about 9.05pm to take a taxi instead. There was no staff on the ground to tell passengers what was happening.” Packed trains had stopped, with their doors left open and no staff member in sight. One commuter at HarbourFront said two trains with their doors open and passengers inside had not moved for more than 15 minutes. Another commuter, Mr Steven Goh, 52, had a similar experience. “Not seeing any single shuttle bus at Buangkok for at least half an hour after announcement of (signal) fault,” said a commenter on Facebook.