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Within 12 hours of his appointment as the person-in-charge of rail replacement works along the East-West Line (EWL), contractor Steve Hall and his team got straight to work on Friday (Sept 27) morning — the third day of the six-day-long train disruption.4-hour sleep days, didn't see family: Contractor, ground staff and volunteers reflect on MRT disruptions
Within 12 hours of his appointment as the person-in-charge of rail replacement works along the East-West Line (EWL), contractor Steve Hall and his team got straight to work on Friday (Sept 27) morning — the third day of the six-day-long train disruption. For the next few days, the 63-year-old construction manager at China Railway First Group slept an average of four hours, and didn't see his family for three days. The British national and Singapore permanent resident had to answer so many text messages and calls that he even brought his phone along with him to the shower. «The phone never stopped. It just kept going and going, even my power packs were [depleted] as well» he told reporters in an interview on Oct 4. On Thursday afternoon, Hall had been tasked by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to oversee restoration works on a stretch of damaged track closer to Dover station. The biggest challenge, he said, was the hot weather exacerbated by the noise barriers installed along that stretch of track. «There's no breeze, you're stuck,» he said, adding that ongoing welding works also added to the heat. Read more
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