@brucelawson Others took a bit longer tho - it took until 2011 when the government realised that the privatised and “liberalised” (but still very tightly-regulated) public transit industry should not have gone down that route after all.
The trigger? Two extremely major metro breakdowns over a span of three days, that triggered a government committee of inquiry, which in turn exposed just how profit-driven and neglectful of basic maintenance the metro operator, SMRT, has become.