SMRT is undertaking a multi-year effort to upgrade Singapore's oldest and most heavily used MRT lines, the North-South and East-West Lines. This includes replacing wooden sleepers with concrete ones, upgrading train signaling systems, replacing aging third rails, and adding new trains. Additional projects involve maintaining escalators and platform screen doors, improving air conditioning, and strengthening SMRT's engineering workforce. The upgrades aim to provide commuters with safer, more reliable rail service.