After the superb dinner with the guys, we decided to take a spin in KL before we head home for more chilled beers and end up getting stuck in a traffic jam @ 10.50pm! On a Friday night! Yep, that’s our typical KL.
Commuting in Kuala Lumpur is a unique experience. If you happened to own a car, you know how lucky you are as going places became as easy as eating fries. If not, you’ll be depending on public transport, which is somewhat dysfunctional.
Buses and Train while not always on time will definitely get you to your destination. (Well sort-of, it’s kinda like from point-A to point-B and you’ll then have to walk for another 20mins to your destination.) A recent hike of 30% in taxi fare to stimulate the quality of service doesn’t mean much for they still refuse to take you to your destination even though it’s 3 blocks away.
Those that drives are then hit with some silly nuisance such as stupid parking fee and hefty highway toll. One day they decided to build an arc and every other day after, you’ve got to pay to go through. But fear not, our government has got a 20% toll rebate scheme for those who registered 80 toll transactions and above per month. Let’s do the math: -
Imagine you only work weekdays, through and forth you’ll have 40 transactions per month (More on a 5 week month). Add some shopping trips and active socializing and it might hit 80 to qualify. But then again, your car fuel and miscellaneous expenses would have cost you dearly.
Then there’s this incident where this poor guy got denied entry into tube station for bringing along his foldable bicycles. With all this talks of CO2 emission, why is there no policies or proper guidelines to encourage the use of a sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation?
What is our transport minister’s view in this matter? (With his political party’s emergency general election by the corner, CO2 can wait, so should the people. I know.. he’s a troubled man.)
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