After the Government announced that it was going to spend millions of ringgit on the extension of certain LRT lines, everybody is clamoring for the LRT to come to their places. It seems that everyone wants the LRT at his doorstep.
If you study the present set-up of the LRT, it is really not necessary to extend any line any more.
What is required now, and urgently, is to expand and improve the service of the FEEDER BUSES.
Take Subang Jaya for example. There should be a bus service for every Section.
It is not necessary to have the buses running through every street; but its route should be designed as such that no house is further than say 500 to 1,000 meters from the nearest Bus Stop. Thus, everybody can walk to the nearest Bus Stop, and in 15 minutes or so he will be on the LRT train.
The bus for each section should go straight to the Train Station.
The service should be such that any passenger/resident is able to travel from any Section to the Train Station not more than 15 minutes.
During the peak hours of 6-9 a.m and 5-7 p.m, the buses should pass every bus stop not longer than every 10 minutes.
In the long run, the introduction of the Feeder Bus Service will cost much, much less than extending the LRT lines.
The total cost for Feeder Bus Service is also than less than the cost of preparing car parks.
The Feeder Bus Service can be implemented immediately, or as soon as the buses are made available.
This same plan can be applied to Cheras to Maluri Station; Ampang to Ampang Station; Damansara Heights to Bangsar Station, and many others. Indeed every crowded resiential area can nbe covered by the feeder bus service.
If the Feeder Bus Service is fully implemented, then, we can stop all the bus services from residential areas to the city. For example, there should not be buses from Cheras or Subang Jaya to the City Center. By this, there will b ;less buses on the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
Sandy Parr
11.01.10
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