Major MRT breakdowns double as overall rail reliability remains high


SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Serious MRT disruptions, each lasting over 30 minutes, more than doubled in 2022 from 2021, even as the frequency of total delays dipped.

According to rail reliability statistics just released by the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the mean kilometres before failure (MKBF) – an engineering measure of reliability – rose from 1.994 million train-km in 2021 to 2.09 million train-km in 2022.

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