The new Hume MRT station will serve residents staying along Hume Avenue, with sheltered linkways enhancing first-and-last mile connectivity.
The new DTL2e will shorten travel times for those travelling to and from the north and north-western parts of Singapore, and is projected to open by 2035.
SBS Transit operates the North-East Line and Downtown Line, and these two lines had the highest reliability numbers in 2020.
The only remaining station on the Downtown Line that isn't opened, construction work to set up Hume Station is underway and the station is set to open by 2025.
A broken signalling cable has been identified as the cause of a six hour disruption on the Downtown Line on 28 December 2020.
The Downtown Line was hit by a signalling fault during the evening peak hour on 28/12/2020, causing delays ranging from 15 to 20 minutes.
About $60 million a year in public funds goes towards subsidising operations for a stretch of the MRT Downtown Line connecting Bukit Panjang to the city.
Operation hours for the Downtown Line, North-East Line and some bus services will be extended on the eve of Labour Day.
The Downtown Line was hit by a signalling fault early Wednesday morning, causing service delays from Bukit Panjang to Bedok.
SBS Transit apologised for not issuing any alerts when the Downtown Line was hit by a signalling fault on Thursday morning at Tampines West station.
The Downtown Line was hit by a signalling fault on Thursday morning, with the fault causing the entire line to be slowed.
The operating hours of selected bus and train services will be extended till late next Monday, on the eve of Vesak Day.
Even as efforts are made to ramp up the reliability of older MRT lines, the authorities are also finding new ways to improve newer networks.
The Land Transport Authority has announced that it will be introducing a new Passenger Load Information System, which will show how crowded train cars are.
According to Land Transport Authority statistics, the North-South Line and East-West Line have seen a 3.1% dip in ridership since 2016.
SBS Transit and SMRT have started deploying drivers on their driverless MRT trains in order to improve reliability on the North-East, Downtown and Circle lines.
The root cause of the full-day glitch on the Downtown Line, which was affected by a signalling fault on Thursday, has not been identified.
Ride-hailing firm Grab reported a technical issue with its app on Thursday morning, with other countries in the region similarly affected.
Commuters travelling on the Downtown Line faced delays in their Thursday morning commute due to a signalling fault.
The Land Transport Authority says that ridership on the Downtown Line has increased by more than 50 percent since the opening of Downtown Line 3.