Recently, the KTM komuter has provided a special ladies-only coach for it's Sentul-Port Klang route (and as i am editing this article, the Rawang-Seremban route is on the way of implementing this concept). This is a good move, BUT...... i would say that the timing of implementation is a little bit off...
From my experience of riding the Komuter, and from the readers' complaints in the newspapers, the KTM Komuter service is very poor that i think this move is not a only a temporary solution (to a chronic problem), and that the only long-term and permanent solution is to improve the services (and fast)...
The main complaint would be that the waiting time for each komuter is very long and sometimes at peak hours, even when the train arrive on-time, passengers cannot enter due to already congested train and have to wait for another (or few other) train before they can ride it..
In the train, strangers of different genders have to stand up in packed coach... this is not Islamic (not observing distance between people), not comfortable (eg: smell) and can lead to problems such as pick-pocketing and sexual harassment...
I once ride from KL Sentral to Seremban, about a 2 hours ride and half the time i have to stand up (in a congested coach) holding a medium sized bag... very tiring indeed...
Komuter train also broke down sometimes (usually for about few minutes when i rode it) but in the news, the train can sometimes broke down longer...
Thus,
I think that, the most urgent improvement that KTM must do is to increase the frequency of it's train, reduce the waiting time between each train, and maybe change with a new train model which is bigger, faster and more efficient... Then, i believe, the problems described above would be reduced (if not solved)...
To do achieve this, they should choose a new more efficient train model and buy it...
These vital problems should be prioritized first over additional features (such as introducing the ladies-only coaches)... If not, the problems will persist somehow... The Komuter coaches would still be very crowded (although the ladies will only be stuck among the gender only), the people of both gender will still have to miss some train because the coaches are already full, no personal space between passengers, the Komuter train will still break down sometimes (leading to problems such as body odor when the air-cond break down) and ASSUMING that all the pick-pockets are male, then the pick-pockets incident would still be rampant in the male-coach (or if we assume that some of the pick-pockets are female, then the problem is not solved at all)...
As for sexual harassment, maybe this segregation can help to certain extent...
I believe that the only long-term and permanent solution is to address the train first, when the train is more efficient (and comfortable) and people have their personal space around them to themselves only, the problem of sexual harrassment, pickpocketing, and all the other problems will be solved simultaneously...
Case study: Singapore MRT train, the train is efficient and comfortable that i don't even think that sexual harassment and pick-pocketing is a problem there...
ps: this is just my opinion...
From my experience of riding the Komuter, and from the readers' complaints in the newspapers, the KTM Komuter service is very poor that i think this move is not a only a temporary solution (to a chronic problem), and that the only long-term and permanent solution is to improve the services (and fast)...
The main complaint would be that the waiting time for each komuter is very long and sometimes at peak hours, even when the train arrive on-time, passengers cannot enter due to already congested train and have to wait for another (or few other) train before they can ride it..
In the train, strangers of different genders have to stand up in packed coach... this is not Islamic (not observing distance between people), not comfortable (eg: smell) and can lead to problems such as pick-pocketing and sexual harassment...
I once ride from KL Sentral to Seremban, about a 2 hours ride and half the time i have to stand up (in a congested coach) holding a medium sized bag... very tiring indeed...
Komuter train also broke down sometimes (usually for about few minutes when i rode it) but in the news, the train can sometimes broke down longer...
Thus,
I think that, the most urgent improvement that KTM must do is to increase the frequency of it's train, reduce the waiting time between each train, and maybe change with a new train model which is bigger, faster and more efficient... Then, i believe, the problems described above would be reduced (if not solved)...
To do achieve this, they should choose a new more efficient train model and buy it...
These vital problems should be prioritized first over additional features (such as introducing the ladies-only coaches)... If not, the problems will persist somehow... The Komuter coaches would still be very crowded (although the ladies will only be stuck among the gender only), the people of both gender will still have to miss some train because the coaches are already full, no personal space between passengers, the Komuter train will still break down sometimes (leading to problems such as body odor when the air-cond break down) and ASSUMING that all the pick-pockets are male, then the pick-pockets incident would still be rampant in the male-coach (or if we assume that some of the pick-pockets are female, then the problem is not solved at all)...
As for sexual harassment, maybe this segregation can help to certain extent...
I believe that the only long-term and permanent solution is to address the train first, when the train is more efficient (and comfortable) and people have their personal space around them to themselves only, the problem of sexual harrassment, pickpocketing, and all the other problems will be solved simultaneously...
Case study: Singapore MRT train, the train is efficient and comfortable that i don't even think that sexual harassment and pick-pocketing is a problem there...
ps: this is just my opinion...
1 comment:
btol din, kwn aku kije kat singapore, die ade ckp duduk rapat2 lam tu btwn laki ngan pempuan, xde mende pun blaku..kt msia je yg problem
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