Inferior wooden planks used on MRT tracks?


Hardwarezone Forum, 3 Aug 2013
LTA wanted to change 180K pieces of MRT track rail wooden planks. Some buyers of these old wooden planks have found out that these wooden planks are all rotten!
This is alarming because for wooden planks used for rail track are supposedly solid harden wood treated to prevent rotting but they have found out that these wooden planks are actually made of compressed wood shredding and are rotten!    Full story

Original article in Mandarin is here:
震惊!地铁轨道用烂木当枕木? - Blog.omy.sg