Major delay on MRT system along East-West line

Thousands of commuters were stuck between 15 minutes to over an hour during a major peak hour delay on the MRT along the East-West line on Thursday morning.

The cause is still being investigated but an announcement by the SMRT on one of the trains said it was due to a "faulty train between Tiong Bahru and Outram".

The delay during peak hour morning traffic caused many on their way to school or work to be late.

Public relations executive Felicia Goh, 24, told Yahoo Singapore she was stuck on the train for over an hour.

"I was initially stuck at Clementi before moving two stops and stalling again at Buona Vista," she said.

Train commuters stuck at Commonwealth MRT. (Yahoo! photo)

Train commuters stuck at Commonwealth MRT. (Yahoo! photo)

Undergraduate Jacqueline Wong, 22, was at Buona Vista station and after waiting for 15 minutes on the train and finding out about the long delay on micro-blogging platform Twitter, got off and took a bus instead.

Her mother was not so lucky. She took one hour and 20 minutes to get from Buona Vista station to Outram Park, reaching work two hours late, said Wong.

Jeremy Foo, 32, an engineer stuck at Outram Park station, added, "I heard trains have been delayed all morning. I've been waiting here for the last 25 minutes and still no train. This is bad."

Another commuter stuck at the Outram MRT station, sales manager, Germaine Chia, said what made it worse was that mobile phone reception was poor.

"People have been complaining since I got here. The trains are not running and there' s no reception so we can't call in at work. Thankfully, this seldom happens," said the 27-year-old.

A stationary station at Pasir Ris MRT. (Yahoo! photo)

A stationary station at Pasir Ris MRT. (Yahoo! photo)
Frustrated commuters also took to Twitter to complain about the crawling train service and warned others to skip the train ride this morning.

@Redha E tweeted, "I think the delay affected a lot of places. Lots of grumpy people at Bugis MRT tation when i got down just now."

Said @fumblies, "Thanks to the lengthy train delay, I get my much needed sleep on the stationary mrt + an excuse to be super late for lecture."

When contacted, SMRT said it will be releasing a statement soon.

On Sunday, a train was delayed at the Ang Mo Kio station after a Thai teenage girl fell onto the tracks and was hit by a train.

My son s birthday party in Singapore

Hello,

we celebrated Kazu's birthday yesterday (5 april) since everyone was free.Kazu had a good time with us despite of his bad cough and mild asthma. from Singaporean wife

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Last week, I and My friend went to that place called ? I cannot remember... I drink two beer and watch Gator vs ?

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last week ago, Jon and I went to Elton, Fl for disco golf and doing for 12 holes! It was quite fun to play! :)

last day at Thai Hanna

I had to quit this job, but I like my boss, Ray... I have to get his real thai name sooner... he is really nice man! I think, my last day was second of week in Jan.

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Karen Tan-Wright Wow I did not know they have such nicest photos by using vintage Nikon camera.ha...I did not notice brand name but just old camera :o
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I am sort of sad tonight, and I am not going to tell you why. It is my personal. anyway, I am really glad that Ichiro Suzuki has donated 100 million yen ($1.24 million) to the Japanese Red Cross for earthquake relief efforts in his native county. I am planning to donate to www.deafjapan.com for USD 50 or 100 sooner.
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I like this photo cos Maya was puzzled at her text and her mind said, WHY?!!! look at TV screen!

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I worked at ARC from 1pm to 8pm today. I went to Target and bought for something.. then go to home and realized that TV show is an important for me to watch cos I met older Deafie lady named Phyllis Frelich at MSSD long time ago. I will show you url of this web site: Episode Title: The Two Mrs. Grissoms

Sara clashes with her mother-in-law (Frelich) and a woman (Matlin) from Gil's past when the CSIs investigate a car bombing tied to the faculty and students at a local college's Department of Deaf Cultural Studies.

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(I don't have time to check TV listings for every person/time zone/cable provider. If you have requested this informtation on the wall below and no one else has answered you I suggest you google it or check your tv guide. It will be on Thursday, probably at 9:00p.m.)

Canada: http://shows.ctv.ca/CSI.aspx
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A fearful, frigid night on iconic Chicago road

CHICAGO – Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn't tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made it impossible to see anything but the closest cars.

There was talk among her fellow commuters of 25-foot waves washing up from Lake Michigan and about when the bus might get going, but nobody knew anything — not the driver, not the emergency operators passengers were calling, and not the shivering motorists climbing aboard to keep warm after firefighters pulled them from their cars.

When a group of passengers decided enough was enough and started to walk, she joined them.

"I got 100 feet, everything was an orange hue, there was snow in my face, I couldn't see anything, I turned around and couldn't see the bus and I thought I was going to die," she said Wednesday morning.

Wilson, 26, was among hundreds of people in at least 1,500 vehicles who found themselves trapped on Chicago's most famous stretch of road for as long as 12 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning during one of the worst snow storms in the city's history. The situation was among the worst impacts from the winter storm that carved a frigid path along a 2,000-mile stretch across the eastern U.S.

In the morning light, the roadway looked like rush hour had been stopped in time. Three lanes of cars cluttered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields. Some cars were almost completely buried. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, then tow trucks plucked them out of snow drifts one by one.

On a stranded public transit bus, a two-way radio echoed eerily through the open passenger doors. Some abandoned cars still had yellow hazard lights blinking through the snow — without a human in sight to see them.

The stranded vehicles were the worst breakdown in Chicago's handling of the storm.

Some motorists came away angry, frustrated and puzzled at why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier, or why officials didn't anticipate that a bus accident could clog it up like a cork in a bottle.

"In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive," said Raymond Orozco, Mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff. Later, Orozco told reporters that it was his own call not to shut the road as soon as snow began, and stood by the decision. Late Wednesday, it wasn't known when the road would reopen, and some 200 cars were still stuck.

City officials estimated as many as 900 cars were caught in the jam; an AP photographer at the scene counted at least 1,500.

Orozco said more than 130 firefighters, some on snowmobiles, and 100 police officers were sent to the road. As they sat and waited, the stranded motorists gratefully gobbled down granola bars and drank coffee and Gatorade, brought to them by Good Samaritans who climbed fences and railings to deliver them.

For hour after hour, the passengers in Wilson's bus waited. As lightning crackled, and wind gusts of up to 70 mph whipped up the snow and buried vehicles before their eyes, they huddled in their cars and on buses.

With word spreading that one or more buses had jackknifed ahead of them and sealed the drive, they tried to make a break for it. Fearing that they would be swallowed by the snowdrifts that by morning had climbed to the tops of vehicles, some turned around.

"I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow?" said Wilson, who made it back to her bus as much by feel as sight.

With so little information out there, motorists said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic.

"The bus driver kept yelling,' We are all gonna die,'" said Ron Nelson, a 51-year-old salesman who was on a bus bound for a northern neighborhood where he lives. It wasn't clear if the driver was joking and "nobody thought it was funny," Nelson said at a hospital, where he was taken.

In cars, after watching their gas gauges falling, drivers tried desperately to keep their vehicles idling long enough with heaters on full blast to warm them up before turning off the ignition to keep from running out of gas.

People called family and friends on cell phones, as much to get information and ask to be rescued as relay what was going on — mostly because nobody knew.

Carolyn Pirotte, a 28-year-old nurse, just waited in her car and talked to her husband on the cell phone. He caught a ride as far as he could get, then started walking. He peered into windows until he spotted her just before midnight, six hours after her ordeal began.

He climbed in and waited with her for three hours until firefighters took them to a warming center at a nearby hospital.

As for Wilson, she wonders why she hopped on that bus just before it rolled onto Lake Shore Drive.

"I should have been smart enough not to take that route," she said.

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Associated Press writers Michael Tarm and Caryn Rousseau contributed to this report.