TRANSIT notes that recently the management of Suria KLCC signed a 7-year concession agreement with Awana Sutera Sdn. Bhd. to manage the horrible congestion at the taxi stands outside the Suria KLCC shopping centre. The management service is called Taxi Services, and the website and contact information can be seen in the image below. (TRANSIT: […]
Category: Socioeconomic Equity
SPAD Chairman talks on MRT financing plan
SPAD’s Chairman, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar told The Sun newspaper on the bane on using public transport. TRANSIT feels that the representatives of the people, not limited to those from SPAD or MoT, must learn to endure door-to-door return trip via public transport (read: this involves walking to bus stops, riding buses to another […]
What makes KL a livable city?
TRANSIT was invited to a forum on building vibrant and liveable cities by the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) on 5 October 2010. Two distinguished speakers were invited to speak, namely Councillor Paul Scriven from Sheffield City Council, UK on “Building High Quality of Urban Life: The Sheffield Experience” and Dr Lawrence Tseu from […]
Last week, TRANSIT took note of the following story in the Star Metro about the various concessions that are offered to senior citizens in Malaysia – which also lamented that some senior citizens did not know that they were entitled to these concessions. But the images accompanying the article left the members of transit with […]
TRANSIT together with Pertubuhan IKRAM Malaysia’s (Ikram) Masyarakat Madani Committee have issued a joint statement on the MRT Proposal. Concerns over MRT in Greater KL — Syed Ibrahim Syeh Noh AlHabshi October 10, 2010 OCT 10 — Pertubuhan IKRAM Malaysia’s (Ikram) Masyarakat Madani Committee together with the members of the Association for the Improvement of […]
ETP Analysis: The High Speed Rail proposal
In this post, TRANSIT will strive to analyze, to the best of our ability, the High Speed Rail proposal under the Economic Transformation Programme. We also hope to provide information to and obtain feedback from the public on the nature of the MRT proposal, its scope and chance of success as well as suggestions to […]
ETP Analysis: The MRT Proposal
In this post, TRANSIT will strive to analyze, to the best of our ability, the MRT proposal under the Economic Transformation Programme. We also hope to provide information to and obtain feedback from the public on the nature of the MRT proposal, its scope and chance of success as well as suggestions to make the […]
Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) to include 2 public transport projects – TRANSIT needs your feedback!
TRANSIT has taken note of the recent public open houses in which the government introduced its proposed Economic Transformation Programme, a wholly-Keynesian spending package that is a combination of economic stimulus plan and economic growth plan. TRANSIT will post our comments about the ETP projects which are related to public transport, namely: the proposed MRT […]
TRANSIT took note of the following article in the Business Times, which details the changes in Prasarana since Idrose Mohamed took over the government-owned company. We will tell you what we think about Idrose’s nearly 2 years in charge of Prasarana – but read the article first. Prasarana improves under Idrose (Business Times) 15 Sept […]
Updates #58
Updates #58 1. Article: Spotlight on Trams: Penang (Edinburgh Guardian) – Malaysian blogger Anil Netto writes about the history of tram service in Penang and the effort by some campaigners to bring the tram back to Penang. TRANSIT: As nice as the tram campaign is, one really has to ask what has been accomplished beyond […]
