Tuesday, October 20, 2015

More rubbish logic from Opposition Media about the MRT breakdowns

By Shutdown TRS (Facebook)

Rubbish sites like The Alternative View should read the article before basing their judgement just the headlines.

A power trip between Farrer Park station and Boon Keng station last year were actually caused by a balloon. It might sounds impossible and hard for rubbish sites to digest but these problems are rather common in cities like Hong Kong.

So before making any judgement, asserting it is impossible for such things to happen, rubbish sites should learn more about the wonders of science and chemistry.

[While incidents of balloons causing power trips are rare here, they happen more often in cities like Hong Kong, where there are signs telling people not to take balloons into train stations.

According to a Hong Kong magazine, the ban was started in 1996, when a Minnie Mouse balloon floated into a tunnel at rush hour. The resulting short circuit halted all trains between Admiralty and Quarry Bay - both interchange stations - for 1 ½ hours and affected 100,000 commuters.
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Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/train-stalled-it-may-be-balloons-fault

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