Traingate: Only TRE reader sees the big picture
Everone else is talking cock and singing song. The Oppo parties, anti-PAP cyberwarriors and activists, allied websites and bloggers, and other new media outlets are screaming their heads off over the cracks in PRC-made trains and the failure of SMRT, LTA and the transport ministry (MoT) to tell us about the cracks. Only a TRE...
MOT Minister Khaw says non transparency can prevent undue panic
The issue of 26 defective China-made SMRT trains has been making headlines since 5 July after this was reported by investigative journalism site Factwire. Since then, MOT, LTA and SMRT with the assistance of MSM (not stat board) have continued to issue statements as if social media did not exist: it was right to withhold information...
Silence of SMRT, LTA & MoT explained
In my own opinion, they should have disclosed it. Everyone has their reasons, but in the end there’s always consequences. Daniel Yap of TMG in a FB post when introducing this piece he wrote [ LINK ]. Piece is worth a read, explaining why it would have been better for the authorities to have disclosed the cracks and the remedial...
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