saikangwarrior
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i am quite familiar with government implementation timeline having worked on policies many years ago, but ano longer in the public service. Without going much into details, implementation of a rail line involves alot of planning (procurement of land ownership along alignment, stakeholder engagement, confirming alignment etc). fwiw, the cross island line was first announced by MOT in 2013, and expected completion in 2030..and that’s the timeline given pre-covidLast time the time line to make mrt is long. That because the population growth also slow. Covid has taught us that if it has to be done, gov will put resources in it to get it done. Since 2030 will have 6.9m people. I am willing to bet they can’t wait till 2040 to get it up. Not with the current influx of people. Look at the amount of people pissed off with red line liao. One signal issue and half of singapore is late for work liao.
Moreover with more existing lines, it will make new lines all the more complex since there’ll be new interchanges etc. Also by 2032, once the CRL, JRL, TEL is fully built up, we may see a lessening of congestion and relief of the passenger load, which will alleviate your concern of signalling fault since there’ll be more redundancy