Category: Economic Planning Unit

TRANSIT: Shah Alam stadium would make a great Park & Ride facility

Post author By transitmy
Post date March 5, 2011
7 Comments on TRANSIT: Shah Alam stadium would make a great Park & Ride facility

TRANSIT took note of this interesting article, which describes concerns some residents have over the use of a section of the parking lot at Stadium Shah Alam for a used car lot: Residents unhappy with council for renting out part of carpark at Shah Alam Stadium (The Star 1 March 2011)

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MRT Update: AWER tells DoE to reject EIA from ERE for KVMRT (SBK)

Post author By transitmy
Post date March 2, 2011
4 Comments on MRT Update: AWER tells DoE to reject EIA from ERE for KVMRT (SBK)

TRANSIT woke up this morning and decided to confuse as many people as possible by using as many acronyms as possible in one post heading. We have already done this in the past (for fun), but once the GTP and ETP were introduced, we felt that they really raised the bar on acronym use so […]

Tags construction, Environment, infrastructure, MRT, MRT Update, Pemandu, Planning, Prasarana, public consultation, Public Display, Sg. Buloh - Kajang line, Sg. Buloh - Kajang MRT, SPAD / LPTC

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Consultant: Buses cannot replace MRT; TRANSIT: MRT cannot replace buses (Update #1)

Post author By transitmy
Post date February 23, 2011
18 Comments on Consultant: Buses cannot replace MRT; TRANSIT: MRT cannot replace buses (Update #1)

TRANSIT took note of the recent comments from ERE Consulting Group which appeared to rubbish TRANSIT’s comments favouring Bus Rapid Transit and Expressway Rapid Transit over investment in the MRT network. It was argued that Bus Rapid Transit would not have the capacity to match MRT and the existing road networks were already constrained with […]

Tags BRT (Bus-Rapid Transit), carrying capacity, construction, Economic Planning Unit, Economic Transformation Programme, Expressway Rapid Transit, fares, Finance, Malaysian Government, MRT, MRT Update, Passengers per hour per direction (pphpd), Sg. Buloh - Kajang MRT, SPAD / LPTC, wakil rakyat

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MRT Update: Our feedback on MRT Open Day is here! (Update #1)

Post author By transitmy
Post date February 14, 2011
14 Comments on MRT Update: Our feedback on MRT Open Day is here! (Update #1)

Updated with articles on the Open Day! TRANSIT is compiling materials related with yesterday’s SPAD Open Day on Sungai Buloh – Kajang MRT line at MidValley. As you can imagine, this will take some time so please check back to this post and the post on the MRT public display regularly. More information & comments […]

Tags MRT, MRT Open Day, MRT Update, Sungai Buloh - Kajang MRT

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MRT Update: Sg. Buloh – Kajang Line – Public Display, Planning & Construction (Update #33)

Post author By transitmy
Post date February 10, 2011
63 Comments on MRT Update: Sg. Buloh – Kajang Line – Public Display, Planning & Construction (Update #33)

The 3 months public display period for the Sg. Buloh – Kajang line began on Monday, 14 February and continued until 15 May 2011. The public display period is now closed. With the completion of the Public Display for MRT Line 1 (Sg. Buloh to Klang), TRANSIT will be revising this post to focus on […]

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MRT Update: Do we need an MRT to Shah Alam & Klang? (Update #1)

Post author By transitmy
Post date February 5, 2011
23 Comments on MRT Update: Do we need an MRT to Shah Alam & Klang? (Update #1)

Updated with poll! Read through our post and join our poll – conveniently placed at the bottom of this post! TRANSIT has taken note of the updated plans for the MRT network, which (as you know by now) are actually quite different from the original MMC-Gamuda proposal. If you have been following the plan (or […]

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Penang LRT project to be revived?

Post author By transitmy
Post date February 3, 2011
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TRANSIT took note of this article in the Business Times which suggests that the Penang LRT project will be revived soon. The proposal for a Penang Monorail or LRT has been mentioned again and again, with different ideas about how a monorail / LRT network could be designed. TRANSIT of course have our own ideas […]

Tags Economic Planning Unit, Economic Transformation Programme, LRT, Penang, Penang Government, Planning, SPAD / LPTC

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MRT Update: Is this our new MRT network?

Post author By transitmy
Post date February 1, 2011
4 Comments on MRT Update: Is this our new MRT network?

TRANSIT took note of this recent article in Star Biz, which highlights the planning for the 2nd MRT line, an “orbital” line running around the city centre that has been named the “Circle Line” The article also mentions an “Orange Line” which will run from Ampang to Klang through Seputeh & what looks like Petaling […]

Tags Circle Line, communication, commuters, Economic Planning Unit, Economic Transformation Programme, Feedback, forums on public transit, Local Public Transport, Malaysian Government, MRT, Pemandu, Planning, rapidKL, Sg. Buloh - Kajang line, SPAD / LPTC, statements on public transit, Updates, wakil rakyat

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MRT Update: TTDI Residents want project ‘on the right track’ (Update #2)

Post author By transitmy
Post date January 30, 2011
29 Comments on MRT Update: TTDI Residents want project ‘on the right track’ (Update #2)

Updated with additional articles & letters! Updated with additional articles following the objections in TTDI! TRANSIT took note of this open letter from S. Bahari, a resident of TTDI who is a member of a pro-tem committee formed on 20 January 2011 to discuss the MRT project and give feedback on the project. S. Bahari […]

Tags construction, Economic Planning Unit, forums on public transit, MRT, Pemandu, Planning, Prasarana, Sg. Buloh - Kajang line, SPAD / LPTC, statements on public transit, wakil rakyat

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MRT Update: Will old habits die hard?

Post author By transitmy
Post date January 29, 2011
2 Comments on MRT Update: Will old habits die hard?

TRANSIT took note of this comment on the MRT project which was featured in The Edge Financial Daily. Rafizi Ramli, the Chief Executive of the Selangor Economic Advisory Office, writes a very interesting series of comments and raises many questions about the MRT project which are similar to questions and concerns that TRANSIT has. His […]