I was asked to attend a training at Maju Junction Mall in Jalan Sultan Ismail for the last three days. Since the venue is located in center of Kuala Lumpur, I decided to take public transport instead of driving. I parked my car at the nearest Taman Jaya station and this cost me around RM3. Then, take the Putra LRT to KL Sentral cost me RM1.60. Huge crowd and you almost have to wait for 6 minutes. Lastly, I had to take KL Monorail to Media Tunku and this cost me RM2.50. So, the total cost for going to and back from my training is RM11.20. Too much….
But I really could not accept that such a short distance costs around RM2.50 for taking KL Monorail. Furthermore, it was a bad experience on the first day while the train stuck for almost 5 minutes just before it reached Media Tunku station. Yes, there was no complaint from passengers including me. This remembers me that once I almost missed my bus back to Penang when the KTM stuck at KL Sentral for almost 30 minutes. Pricing for petrol is going to raise next year after all our Ministers keep making noise that our government could not further subsidy. More and more peoples will start taking public transports. But “Suka-Suka”, it can simply delay your trips so who are going to trust our public transport?
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Yes, KL public transport is unreliable, inconvenient, and expensive. This is mainly due to the unplanned development of the city. Developers can build houses and apartments anywhere they want without proper planning. I was at the Seoul National Museum last year and I was surprised to see that Seoul has been neatly divided into square blocks since ancient times! Sadly, KL can't even do the same in modern times.
Yes, I think that it may also due to a lot of tanah simpanan and kampung baru .. too sensitive to develop those places...
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