There is no evidence of shortcomings or lapses in regulatory oversight by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) and Land Transport Authority (LTA) in the MRT flooding incident.
SMRT group chief executive Desmond Kuek called on staff to take the lessons from the recent tunnel flooding incident seriously, and to emerge "stronger and better".
This is because besides the allowable growth rate, COE quota is based on factors such as the number of vehicles that are scrapped and adjustments to account for past over-projections, among other considerations.