Better Public Transportation Please!

Stumbled upon this article over the net.

India’s haphazard route to development has left gaping holes in environmental and urban policies, and the number of cars on the road has increased steadily over the past decade. Its cities are traffic-jammed, exhaust-choked nightmares even without the Nano. But that growth puts the Nano at the heart of an emerging debate. Should India embrace a future where every man, woman, and child owns a carbon-spewing, space-hogging, four-wheeled vehicle? Or should cities focus their efforts on public transportation systems that reserve private ownership as a luxury?

This article is ’so malaysianised” . When malaysian government had to increase oil price , a lot of people were going against it , and some were asking to lower road tax , car prices and so on. They are just asking for a leverage to counter their monthly ‘oil spending’.Is lowering car price and road tax will give us a good solution for our transportation problem? Lowering car price and road tax will only encourage more people to buy more 2/4 wheelers and hog our ever packed roads more.

Even lowering the petrol price is not the real solution which might end our ’suffering’ of traveling between home and work. And I heard people are doing demonstration over HIGH price of petrol. Mostly done by Oppositions parties. Come on guys,you know even if you are the Federal government you cant keep up with the world oil price. USA , China , Indonesia , India are some of the countries which has increased their oil price between 10-40 % . Even these WORLD SUPER POWERS ‘tak boleh tahan dah’

What rakyat really should protest for,is a better public transportation which will end all our misery!

Let’s just take myself as an example. Commuting from Cyberjaya to down town K.L ( K.L SENTRAL ) takes me 3/4 buses! .  From house to K.L SENTRAL , 2 Bus , From K.L Sentral to house , 3 Bus.  Alltogether it will take me about 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes to reach K.L Sentral. Why on earth Rapid KL cant have buses straight from Cyberjaya ( house of thousands of students ) to K.L Sentral? Which will cut short the travelling time at least by 30/40 mins. Haigh! if only the Rapid KL CEO listens to me!. Now,This will just become yet another blog post lost in cyber space. Rapid KL has one of  the best infrastructure compared to any bus company in Malaysia. It’s just their implementation is damn damn damn poor!

RAPID KL, I love u a lot!. But PLEASE buck up yourself la

Anyway, the easiest solution for this problem is, “tarik balik” all the menteri’s car and force them to take public transport!!

Note : This article was written the few days after they increased the oil price.