MRT news update

Pelan laluan MRT Kuala Lumpur (fasa pertama) yang akan menghubungkan Stesen Komuter Sungai Buloh ke Stesen Komuter Kajang dah dipamerkan kepada orang awam...

Kiranya, sekarang ni, penduduk kawasan yang terlibat sedang dalam proses memberikan feedback kepada pelan tersebut...

Kesimpulannya, laluan MRT ni masih belum finalize lagi, still subject to change... Dan sama ada MRT tu elevated or on the ground or underground (berbeza mengikut kawasan yang dilalui) juga still subject to consideration by the Federal Government after receiving the feedback...

Untuk pengetahuan umum, boleh lah, tengok gambar dan fakta-fakta di atas tu...

Selamat kembali bertugas, Terminal Puduraya

Terminal Puduraya yang dah sedang melalui proses facelift (sejak April tahun lalu) akan mula beroperasi Februari ini...

Dah jadi canggih sikit la terminal Puduraya sekarang... Tak buruk cam dulu...

Terminal Puduraya (selepas dibuka semula) akan cater for bas-bas ekspress yang menuju ke utara Semenanjung, manakala terminal bersepadu Bandar Tasik Selatan akan menempatkan bas-bas ekspres yang menuju ke selatan...

Tapi bas-bas ekspres yang menuju ke utara juga dibenarkan beroperasi dari terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan, terpulang kepada syarikat bas untuk pilih...

Semalam selepas pelancaran, Buletin Utama TV3 ada memaparkan tentang Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan... Memang canggih... 

Macam airport pulak ada paparan elektronik menunjukkan bas dah "berlepas" ke belum... 

Sistem tiket di Terminal baru ni pun dah dibuat secara centralized... maksudnya ada 18 kaunter tiket yang bebas menjual tiket untuk semua syarikat bas... Kaunter tiket bas bukan based on syarikat bas lagi...

Nama setiap penumpang juga akan dicetak atas setiap tiket bas... Hmmm, saya pun tak dapat bayangkan lagi proses nak membeli tiket kat sini, kena gi sana baru tahu la kut...

  

Apa-apa pun, despite kontroversi yang melanda isu terminal baru ni, diharap pengangkutan awam akan lebih efisyen selepas pembukaan Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan ni dan pembukaan semula Terminal Puduraya...

Ps: Bila pulak turn Terminal Makmur (Kuantan) untuk dapat facelift yerk? Dah teruk sangat dah tu...

 

Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan (Good news at last)

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 – The new integrated transport terminal in Bandar Tasik Selatan here, which starts operating on Jan 1, will make life more comfortable for commuters.

While improving the public transportation service, the RM570 million terminal will ease traffic congestion in the city centre.

A Bernama check found that the terminal is equipped with advanced features, including centralised 24-hour customer service facilities, e-ticketing counters, public information display systems, dedicated halls for arrivals and departures, an executive lounge, suraus and WiFi service. It even has rooms for changing nappies.

The terminal also caters for the disabled, with directional tiles, lowered counters and special toilets, elevators and ramps.

Covering 19.8 hectares, the six-floor terminal has 55 bus platforms, 150 taxi bays, 1,000 parking bays (with special parking bays for women) and 1,800 seats for the public in its fully air-conditioned waiting halls.

The terminal is to help attain the transport ministry target of increasing the use of public transportation in the Klang Valley to 25 per cent in 2012 from the present 16 per cent.

MAJU Terminal Management and Services managing director Roslan Mohd Shariff said the terminal is a continuation of the Kuala Lumpur Sentral project – only bigger.

“If the terminal is a success, it will be a model for other transport terminals in Malaysia and Southeast Asia,” he said.

He said the three-colour stripes on the terminal’s logo symbolised the transport systems available –the Rapid KL LRT, Express Rail Link and the KTM Komuter.

Apart from the trains, inter-city buses and taxis are available at the terminal, which is linked to the Sungai Besi Expressway, North-South Expressway and the Middle Ring Road II.

For security, the terminal is installed with 500 closed-circuit television cameras and has 250 auxiliary policemen attached to it.

“Green technology is widely used at the terminal, especially in the lighting system. It also has a central vacuum system that ensures all rubbish be disposed at the right place,” he said.

A 66-year-old visitor, Kanafiah Kami, declared himself very impressed. “It’s really nice, beautiful and spacious and will be a tourist attraction,” he said.

The auxiliary policemen around added to his sense of security.

A trader at the terminal, Syahruban Mohammad, said the location was strategic and the surroundings were beautiful and clean. – Bernama

 

Tak jumpa bas, jalan kaki

Tahniah diucapkan kepada Khairy Jamaluddin (MP Rembau) kerana telah naik pengangkutan awam hari ni dan melaporkan kelemahan pengangkutan awam tu kepada akhbar...

Beliau telah naik LRT dari stesen Bukit Jalil ke Masjid Jamek... Pastu turun je stesen Masjid Jamek ingatkan ada bas untuk gi ke Parlimen, tapi tanya-tanya orang kat situ, semua tak tau pun perhentian bas yg berdekatan kat mana...

Jadi dia pun jalan kaki dari stesen LRT tu ke Parlimen... Ok tu je ceritanya dalam akhbar The Star hari ni...

Jangan salah faham saya sebagai penyokong dia plak, yang saya sokong tu pengangkutan awam sebenarnye...

Tapi apa yang dia buat ni memang bagus la, naik sendiri pengangkutan awam (bukan buat rombongan beramai-ramai dengan pihak atasan lain), dan rasa sendiri kelemahan sistem pengangkutan awam ni... Pastu report dalam akhbar bagi orang -orang lain baca gak...

Lagi baik kalau lepas ni dia boleh komplen terus kepada pihak berkuasa cam Menteri Pangangkutan ke, bagi mereka ni sedar kelemahan tuh... Lepas tu bila dah sedar baru lah boleh kita perbaiki mutu pengangkutan awam ni kan...  

Sekarang bagi contoh yang lagi baik, tapi kat luar negara la... Datuk Bandar New York setiap hari gi kerja naik tren subway... Walaupun dia kaya-raya tapi dia guna gak pengangkutan awam setiap hari tau...

Tak kisah la ada orang akan mengata nak cari publisiti ke apa ke, tapi kalau orang yang memang naik public transport setiap hari dia akan tahu le kalau ada kelemahan dalam sistem pengangkutan awam bandar dia kan... 

Dan kalau orang macam ni mengkritik pasal pengangkutan awam, at least orang akan acknowledge la yang dia memang naik public transport dan dia faham masalah yang terjadi...

Tapi kita di Malaysia, pihak-pihak atasan yang banyak keluarkan kenyataan pasal public transport pun macam tak pernah naik public transport sebagai orang awam je... 

Cuba naik komuter masa sesak sampai tak boleh nak masuk tren dan kena tunggu tren berikutnya... Atau cuba naik bas awam dan kena marah sebab takde duit kecik... Benda-benda macam ni selalu je berlaku pada orang awam kan... 

Bas lambat... Bas sesak... LRT berhenti tengah-tengah landasan... Diganggu ulat tiket... Takde connectivity di antara public transport yang berbeza... Banyak lagi masalah yang banyak orang komplen tapi belum diselesaikan... 

Mungkin kerana pihak atasan tak sedar masalah tu atau tak rasa urgency dalam menyelesaikan masalah tu sebab bukan dia yang kena hadapi masalah tu setiap hari... Kalau mereka sedar mungkin cepat sikit masalah tu diselesaikan...

Anyway, lepas ni diharapkan lebih pihak atasan akan sudi guna public transport sebagai orang awam biasa... Dan untuk Khairy pula, harap lepas ni terus naik public transport lagi ok, jangan la naik sekali je pastu tak naik lagi... hehe

Ps: Pihak atasan tu boleh jadi daripada menteri-menteri, pegawai-pegawai kerajaan sampailah kepada bos-bos syarikat pengangkutan, oleh itu artikel ini bukan bersifat partisan ok...   

Ke arah pengangkutan awam yang lebih bermutu

Bullet train in Malaysia

Most of my recent post on social and politics have been sort of critical to the federal government, but not today... Today I'm going to post on something that I strongly supported, which is improving public transportation...

During this past few days, there have been 3 good news regarding public transportation...

The first one, is that the work for the MRT project (for Greater KL) will start on July next year... It would take probably up to TEN years for the MRT to materialize, so I hope that the project can kick-off soon so that the public can reap the rewards sooner...

The second news is that finally, the LRT extension projects, (more specifically, the Kelana Jaya Line extension and the Ampang Line extension) are proceeding to the next step after many months of no news on the subject... The contractors have been chosen for the project today (or maybe it was yesterday, because I read it in today's newspaper)...

The third news is that Malaysia is considering to build "bullet train" for KL-Singapore route... The project, called High-speed rail (HSR) is still in planning stage... According to news, the HSR service, travelling at an average speed of 350-450km an hour, will transform travel on the KL-Singapore route by cutting travel time to 1.5 to two hours.... The government is doing a feasibility study on this project and the study is due to be completed by mid-2011...

I hope that these projects will proceed smoothly without any delay and  not be bogged down by any problems caused by the contractors etc..

Ps: An efficient public transportation system would reduce carbon emission and thus is more environmentally-friendly...