Commuters in Sengkang saw their waiting times cut as extra carriages were added to the local LRT system during peak hours yesterday, reported The Straits Times.

Eight trains on the Sengkang loop of the Sengkang-Punggol LRT system now have two cars instead of one and will run during the morning and evening peak hours, doubling capacity to 204 passengers each. They will operate at the usual intervals of three to four minutes.

The Sengkang loop, which carries more than 61,000 passengers a day, was upgraded first because it is more heavily used than the Punggol loop. The Punggol loop, will get two-car trains by the first quarter of next year.

Eventually, 16 train-cars will be added to the LRT system's current fleet of 41 trains, boosting overall capacity by 40 percent.