Highways will support not only cars but bus rapid transit.

In 2010, Selangor saw 25% increase in labour force. Very explosive population growth due to inter state migration. Thats equivalent to 10% of sabah sarawak population moving to selangor

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Nov 30 2013, 11:24 PM

in the long run. one of any highway lanes can be converted to bus lane only.

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Nov 30 2013, 11:27 PM

i think the contributor towards car usage is cheap gas, despite our expensive car price, our petrol is 7th cheapest in the world.

it is a catch 22. take bus transportation for example, the cause of inconsistent schedule is because buses get stuck in traffic jams. even if Rapid adds more buses, the problem only gets compounded as more buses contribute to the jam. due to inconsistent schedule, less people take public transport, especially since we have cheap petrol. and that means rapid is less likely to add new routes cause demand isn't there.

i think luxury is a significant part why people drive. in developed countries, white collar workers waking at 5AM is normal because they need to take the early bus. in malaysia some ppl do enjoy luxury of waking up after 7-8 and still making it to their office cause they can use their cars.

in any case, I don't think highways contribute to the problem when it can be used for BRT (e.g. bus only lane).

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Dec 3 2013, 04:46 PM

I know ppl who work near lrt station tat stillddrive. I know couple of folks who stop carpooling cause no flexibility, tho arrangement is functional

I dun think there are only 1 group. Some drive for luxury while others drive for necessity. Which 1 bigger can be debated. But if u can encourage the luxury drivers to use public ( e.g. PR is talking about state funded free bus tickets like GO KL as an incentive), then there will be demand increase for more public transport (e.g. rapid increase more bus and routes) which hopefully will get more of the necessity drivers using public as well (e.g. since more routes, they can functionally use buses)

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Dec 4 2013, 11:14 AM