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Might as well ask the gov officials to pakai Grab, can save lots of money on transportation too

Are there that many GRAB drivers to fulfill the demand of users though? Imagine one taman got 500 requests. Got so many GRAB?

While innovation is great, sometimes a solution becomes the drfault solution because its the best one thus far.

For most of early working life, i did rely on the trains, feeder buses and taxis most days of the week. As far as i saw, there were long queues for both buses and cabs. Making the queue for buses disappear and replacing it with what is essentially the new version of cabs just makes me imagine 30, 40 people at the station simultaneously trying to book a ride.

Of course, thats assuming the rider has a phone that can run the app. I have no idea whats the solution if the rider is a bit on the poor side and only has a less-smart phone.
The pursuit for cutting costs is good, but that shouldnt excuse the need for logic or accountability.

Its like saying youre going to sell the fourth wheel of your car. "There's three more wheels," is the excuse. Sure itd raise some money, but in the end you lose out more because it just makes the entire car useless. The proposed solution created more problems than it solved.

The concern here is that this may cause the same scenario. Buses during peak hours are already packed and often late - introducing another random element in that you dont know whtehr theres a grad driver around is one such additional problem.

Plus, why just deal wjth grab - theres a few other hailing services, and of course, taxi drivers. Im pretty sure this last group is going to make some noise of the govt decides to basically subsidise their competitors at the last place taxis seem to operate.

Vans are a good idea, but again, reliability. Having prasarana replace its less busy routes (or less busy times of the day) with vans might be valid.

I think you're confusing full bus service and feeder bus.

Those rapidkl bus can be considered full bus service that goes to stops further away from any rail station, some start from Klang and goes all the way to KL. These may get packed during peak hours, and wherever possible, i think they should be double decker buses to maximise capacity. Still huge money pit and as i see it, Prasarana wanna minimise bus service where there's rail coverage so they need to expand more rail network eg with LRT3, they can stop Klang-KL bus route and instead switch to provide feeder bus for Klang people to go KL and vice versa. But wherever no rail coverage, bus service will have to maintain.

Feeder bus are just local bus service to ferry people from their home to nearest LRT/MRT station. Why need full size Volvo, Scania bus for this? Capacity needed is much smaller, vans may have sufficed.

Tony Pua talks about Grab, but the final on the ground operations are to be handled by Anthony Loke, APAD and Prasarana, pretty sure taxi and other hail riding app will be invited to create competition and choice for consumers.

Thats predicated on the basis that a reliable system is necessary to maximise the use of the lrt/mrt itself. I think the main issue would be not to burden the people who could least afford it, and to not reduce the efficacy of some other moving part by tweaking this or that.

But i agree with your earlier suggestion to optimise routes. Less utilised areas would be better served by smaller vehicles.

if grab fare is cheap enough like feeder bus.. why not

later jam giler dun complain
1 ppl car..... vs 1 bus 20 ppl

Thats predicated on the basis that a reliable system is necessary to maximise the use of the lrt/mrt itself. I think the main issue would be not to burden the people who could least afford it, and to not reduce the efficacy of some other moving part by tweaking this or that.

But i agree with your earlier suggestion to optimise routes. Less utilised areas would be better served by smaller vehicles.

later jam giler dun complain
1 ppl car..... vs 1 bus 20 ppl

they should make more covered side walks, large enough that plenty of people can use them without crowding issues, no puddles, and with good CCTV and patrolmen for security

If I can think of this, why can't Tony Pua?