QUOTE(Ichibanichi @ Oct 9 2018, 11:45 PM)
What is your input to help gomen or prasarana to reduce the feeder bas expenditure and at the same time increase mrt ridership?
It is still in negotiation level and everyone of us don't even have the feeder bus ridership number.
Most of malaysian being brain dead with tongkat syndrome. When tongkat is being remove, they just become zombie chasing anything which make the loudest noise.
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.
QUOTE(tokdukun @ Oct 10 2018, 12:24 AM)
Yet the ridership continues to increase, your point?
You know that the new govt bitch all the time about rm1tril debt, no money, no money. Some things gotta give, and here, it is feeder buses.
Inb4 but got money for perotiga.
Because hospitals and schools are blackhole la why the rest not as much. Everything also wanna blackhole, gg la national debts and liabilities reach rm2 tril soon. In terms of priority, public transportation would have lower rank than medical and education to receive govt aide to keep them operational.
I'm just rationalising Tony Pua's train of thought. Many said he becomes Maslan, but i saw straightaway he's saying govt no money to run feeder bus. Tak payah berlapik la, no money is the issue.
Personally i have a more bizarre idea. I saw in Indonesia, they convert unser kijang to like a mini bus, and they charge iirc 2k rupiah per trip. So it's like a bus, but kijang is dirt cheap compared to a bus, and there's so many of them, frequency nor capacity is an issue.
So maybe instead prasarana could buy and run way more vans, use hiace or some china 18 seater vans to run around instead of expensive, underutilized buses. In fact, i think there already is a service like this, the cyberjaya dts iianm, they have a few buses and vans. Vans would be cheaper to buy and run, and easier to go into residential areas, perfect to replace feeder buses. Cyberjaya dts is fully private service iianm, they're quite pricey, but cheaper than driving and just as convenient.
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.
This post has been edited by empyreal: Oct 10 2018, 06:25 AM 
Oct 9 2018, 08:55 PM, updated 8y ago
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