May 25 2011, 04:42 PM
QUOTE(wankongyew @ May 25 2011, 03:56 PM)
You can't build a reliable bus system that earns money mostly from fares. That just forces bus operators to maximize their income by sticking to the most heavy volume routes only and to wait for the maximum number of passengers before moving. This also encourages drivers to be creative about their route to make more money. Instead, you need a subsidy system that rewards bus drivers for being reliable. You need a timetable such that the bus should appear at each stop on the indicated route at a specific time. You'd need some electronics to monitor all this but the idea is that bus drivers get rewarded for sticking to the schedule as closely as possible.
You probably can't build an efficient public transport system based on usage fees alone. You always need a subsidy from car users. The trade-off is that buses use the road infrastructure more efficiently so it's justifiable to tax car users more heavily on road / petrol taxes and the like to fund public transport.
Yup, money from petrol should use to fund a good & reliable public transportation. Should have done it in the 80' not now. Anyway, no point to cry over spill milk. Now, rakyat must question what are they going to do with the saving from subsidies cutting. We dont want to hear another White Elephants or Satu Lagi RM10 bil projek that inflated to RM50 bil due to leakages. So what for ask rakyat to pay more in turn overspend using rakyat money?!You probably can't build an efficient public transport system based on usage fees alone. You always need a subsidy from car users. The trade-off is that buses use the road infrastructure more efficiently so it's justifiable to tax car users more heavily on road / petrol taxes and the like to fund public transport.
For those who takes public transport, you will understand the plight. LRT understand has improved only recently. Gave up 3 yrs ago. 4-5 yrs ago it is a norm people got fainted esp in KL Sentral due to big crowd. Took them how many donkey yrs to solve the simple problem. Problem now is there still lack of parking space. Yup you want people stay far far use public transport, where to park? Parking cost also keep increasing?
Monorail among the more reliable one. Tat too subject to criticism esp during morning and evening rush hour. How come only 2 carriages going to CBD area? Operate monorail like mini bus mindset, pack like sardine. Some time wonder if emergency happen, how to escape with the seats blocking walk way? There was a time train came late near KL Sentral, platform so pack but guards sleeping, escalators keep moving, you have to push your way right when reaching the platform. Imagine a pregnant lady got caught between a move escalator and a crowded platform. Monorail boleh!
Come to think of it if MRT were to start running, have check yourself the safety expect every time before boarding. How the design the seats(blocking walk way), whether enough escape routing and whether locked/working, ventilation working or not. 3rd world mindset trying to operate mass rapid tranport. No play play joke like PCK. You life is in their hand.
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