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Singapore keeps goal of expanding rail network by early 2030

Singapore’s plan to expand its rail network by more than 50 percent will be delayed as a result of the impact of COVID-19, but it still aims to hit this target by early 2030, said Singaporean Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan on June 22.
Singapore keeps goal of expanding rail network by early 2030 ảnh 1Train passengers in Singapore wear face masks (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)
Singapore (VNA) - Singapore’s plan to expand its rail network by more than 50 percentwill be delayed as a result of the impact of COVID-19, but it still aims to hit this target by early 2030, saidSingaporean Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan on June 22.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore said that at present thecountry has a total of 230km of railway. The country wants to expand its railnetwork to about 360km by 2030, which would connect eight in 10 households to atrain station within 10 minutes.
Rail lines that are scheduled to be completed in the next decadeinclude the remaining phases of the Thomson-East Coast Line, Jurong Region Line and the first part ofthe Cross Island Line.

Khaw said that measures to combat COVID-19 have resulted in a drop in usage of publictransport, but demand will return with time. Public transportridership is now at about 40 percent of pre-COVID-19 levels, after movement restrictions were eased onJune 19.
The entire MRT network in the country consistently exceeds amean kilometre between failures (MKBF) of one million train-km, he noted.
MKBF, a benchmarkmeasurement of rail reliability, refers to the mean distance between a trainfault of more than five minutes.

Between April last year and March this year, theMRT network of Singapore achieved 1.4 million train-km between failures./.
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