Trains break down because LTA is not held accountable too

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After years of train breakdowns, LTA has finally realised it requires more engineers. It is currently on a hiring spree for engineering graduates. To make the job more attractive, LTA has decided to throw tax dollars to employ a “branding and marketing consultant to convince people … land transport sector provides attractive career choices”.

LTA aims to “improve the industry’s image (LTA, SMRT and SBS Transit = government) which has been battered by a recent spate of breakdowns and project failures”. The spate of breakdowns is not as “recent” as LTA claims and has been ongoing for many years. For confirmation, visit FAILRAIL.sg.

Where “project failures” are concerned, no amount of marketing will be able to improve the government’s image. Project failures will continue as if nothing has happened because nothing has happened to top management who screwed up. PAP can’t simply substitute accountability with PR and hope failure will somehow turn into success.

Although LTA claims it is anticipating “manpower needs”, without providing any figures, it is more likely trying to address the existing shortage of qualified engineers. This is because LTA must have overlooked SMRT’s improper maintenance due to its current shortage of engineers.

The article reveals a shocking fact – LTA engineers were offered an irresistible pay package – their pay was trebled – to work on the Kuala Lumpur MRT project. How could a country with a much lower cost of living offer such a relatively exorbitant pay to Singaporean professionals? There was obviously a host of other negative factors which made the choice to leave LTA so much easier for its engineers.

In place of those engineers who had left are ‘talents’ from “India, China, the Philippines and Myanmar”! It will be a miracle if LTA somehow manages to attract local engineers to work for third world wages.

Although LTA is the regulator, PAP and the mainstream media have distracted its failure from the public and none has been held accountable. In fact, ex LTA CEO Chew Hock Yong was recognised for his contributions and promoted to Second Perm Sec of MND.

As the regulator, LTA doesn’t seem to know what the heck has been happening in SMRT. LTA should not implement more cosmetic changes but listen to what this ex-SMRT engineer has to say about frequent breakdowns.

Our land transport network has been expanding for decades, not since yesterday. The demand for engineers meant wages would have increased but instead of allowing market forces to determine wages, PAP intervened by allowing an unlimited supply of ‘cheaperer’ engineers from the countries mentioned above.

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