COMMUTERS at the Kallang MRT Station, fed up with trains too crowded to board, will get some relief during the peak hour rush from Monday.

Train operator SMRT will add an extra two trips during the morning peak hour from 8am to 9am, meaning that a train will call at the station 26 times, up from 24, during that hour - or every 2.3 minutes.

These two extra trips mean places for 2,400 passengers during the morning rush hour, when its common for trains to whizz by the Kallang station without anyone being able to get on board.

This is because, by the time the city-bound train arrives at this 10th station on the East-West line, it is already packed.

In all, 93 extra train trips will be introduced across the network every week from Monday - 83 on the East-West and North-South lines run by SMRT and the remaining 10 on the North-East line run by smaller player SBS Transit.

SMRT's 83 trips work out to 16 extra trips during the morning and evening peak periods on the five weekdays on its two lines.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.