SINGAPORE - The morning commuting crowd streamed out of Raffles Place MRT station, most of them office workers walking closely behind one another.
From 8.30am to 9.30am on Monday (April 5), the tap of bank and ez-link cards at the gantries was relentless. If not for the wearing of face masks, one could almost forget that people continue to live through a viral pandemic.
But daily morning commuters whom The Straits Times spoke to said this has been the case for months. Despite Monday being the first day of eased regulations for workplaces, with companies allowed to bring up to 75 per cent of their staff back to the office at any one time, there was no noticeable further crowding in train cars.