Definition of mass rapid transit Mass rapid transit
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What does mass rapid transit mean?
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Singapore
The Mass Rapid Transit or MRT (Chinese: 大众快速交通 or more commonly known as 地铁; Malay: "Sistem Pengangkutan Gerak Cepat"; Tamil: சிங்கை துரிதக் கடவு ரயில்) is a train system in Singapore.
The MRT is a system which links the different places of the country together using a network, or different lines, of trains. When a person travels from one place to another, he or she goes up a train in a train station and then moves in it with other passengers until the train reaches the place he or she wants to come off, or alight. Sometimes he or she has to change trains.
About 1.3 million passengers use the MRT. The system is 109.4 km long and has 64 stations. The trains run from 5:30 am to 1:00 am every day. A train comes every 3-5 minutes in peak hours, and every 7 minutes during off-peak hours. It is operated by the Singapore's SMRT Corporation and SBS Transit.
There are currently 3 lines in the MRT system, where they are connected by special stops called interchanges. A new line called the Circle Line is going to be finished.
Expansion.
The MRT system had been using its two main lines, the North South and East West Lines, for more than a decade until the opening of the North East Line in 2003. While plans for these lines, as well as those that are under construction, were formed long before, the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) publication of a white paper entitled "A World Class Land Transport System" in 1996 showed the government's intentions to greatly expand on the existing system.
