Public Transportation

SMRT recently announced the proposed increase in the number of trains in service during peak hours. It could go up by 700 trains per week.

I am skeptical behind this idea as the trains are moving along a single rail and there is a limit on the number of trains on the rail between stations. My recent experience seems to confirm that this could lead to a deterioration of riding experience by commuters.

There has been an increase in the number of trains stopping in between 2 stations and abrupt braking. Some of this breaking is continuous (start-stop kind) and could easily make commuters fall.

I reckon that a more feasible solution is to have alternate paths and transportation choices to solve the current crunch in public transportation. The government is not helping by encouraging more people to use public transport, directly and indirectly. With the increase in ERP gantry charges, number of gantries as well as the ever increasing oil price, more people are going to switch to public transport to cut cost.

Is there any way we can do this more effectively?