Those JewTube comments are officially more interesting than the crash.

Oh yeah, like the train is efficient. I remember having spent nearly 10 hours on the train from Kiasuland to the Klang Valley when my peers took just 4 hours traveling along the highway, all while stopping over at Malacca for an hour and two.

Double tracking and electrification won't help either because the service will suffer the same fate as the Komuter down the line; increased ridership and poor management translates to very slow expansion of the rolling stock and rapid deterioration of existing trains and railway equipment. Speed will not matter if they remain very infrequent because it leads to long waiting times.

You're just better off taking the plane, even if it means spending more money and fuel. It's even more so after they demolish what colonial remains of the railway is left. Nobody wants to take pictars of shitty plastic stations, tunnels and bridges.

This post has been edited by Parrot: Oct 11 2010, 04:25 PM

Unfortunately, we are in a situation where public transport is so unattractive that we are compelled to drive or take a private bus instead of taking the train or public bus, and I expect this trend to continue into the foreseeable future (despite the fact we are well on our way to becoming a net importer of oil in a few years).

Having seen how the government exerts control on trains services and bus services yet is still able to mismanage them, how the hell am I to believe that this would be any different? They must had dumped billions into these transport systems for 20 years, and what we have now is valued much lower than that.

BTW, I admire how you're open to opinions; friggin' rarity on the Internets.