Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) 大众捷运系统 (地铁) Sistem Pengangkutan Gerak Cepat துரிதக் கடவு ரயில்
Info
Owner	Land Transport Authority
Locale	Singapore
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	9 (6 in operation, 1 under construction, 1 under planning, 1 under study)
Number of stations	187 (151 in operation, 34 under construction or planning, 2 reserved)
Daily ridership	3.3 million (2018)[1]
Operation
Began operation	7 November 1987
Operator(s)	SMRT Corporation SBS Transit
Technical
System length	216 km (134 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
MRT Network Map

The Mass Rapid Transit system, commonly known as the MRT, is a rapid transit system that makes up the railways in Singapore, covering most of the city-state.

Following two decades of planning, the system began operations in November 1987 with 5 stations spread over 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of track. The network has since grown quickly in accordance with Singapore's aim of developing a complex rail network as the core of the country's public transportation system, averaging a daily ridership of 3.384 million in 2019. The MRT is known as one of the best rapid transit system in the world.

It is a rapid transit system which links the different places of Singapore together using a network, or different connections of trains. When a person travels from one place to another, he or she boards a train in a train station and then the train moves until the train reaches the place he or she wants to come out, or alight from. Sometimes he or she has to change trains.

1. ↑ "Bus, train trips hit record high last year". The Straits Times. 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-04-06.