SERDANG: Konsortium Transnasional Berhad menyediakan 85 bas tambahan mulai Isnin ini bagi menampung keperluan penumpang yang dijangka bertambah menjelang sambutan Aidilfitri nanti.

Pengarah Eksekutifnya, Tengku Hasmadi Tengku Hashim, berkata jumlah itu adalah tambahan 10 peratus daripada 615 bas disediakan syarikat itu terutama bagi penumpang yang ingin balik kampung pada hari Khamis dan Jumaat.

Beliau berkata, tiket bagi perjalanan yang melebihi tempoh masa lima jam seperti ke destinasi di pantai timur untuk kedua-dua hari itu sudah habis dijual.

Tengku Hasmadi berkata, bas tambahan disediakan untuk perjalanan seminggu sebelum dan selepas hari raya.

Tengku Hasmadi berkata, kira-kira 12,000 tiket untuk perjalanan jarak jauh bagi perjalanan pada hari Isnin, Selasa dan Rabu masih ada dan beliau meminta penumpang yang belum mempunyai tiket segera mendapatkannya di kaunter tiket bas yang sah.

“Memandangkan hari raya jatuh pada hari minggu, ramai yang akan balik kampung pada Khamis atau Jumaat, jadi tiket untuk beberapa hari sebelum itu masih ada,” katanya.

Sementara itu, katanya, kira-kira 10,000 tiket bagi perjalanan yang kurang daripada lima jam seperti Melaka dan Ipoh masih belum dijual.

“Penumpang ke destinasi ini selalunya akan membeli tiket pada saat akhir kerana mereka tahu tiket memang ada,” katanya.

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Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wants public transport operators to improve the quality and efficiency of public transport services in line with the fare increase.

He said consumers expect better services from the higher fares.

"They are more likely to accept the fare increase if they can enjoy a better service in return," he said when asked to comment on the objection raised by various parties over the government's decision to increase the fares.

Speaking to reporters after opening the National Cooperative Day 2009 here, Muhyiddin said, the government decided on the increase after taking into consideration various factors including its effect on the consumers and the industry.

He said that the increase should have been implemented a long time ago following requests by transport operators in the wake of rising operating costs.

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Program Diskaun(Rebat) Pengguna Kerap Lebuhraya adalah program ganjaran diskaun untuk pengguna lebuhraya yang menggunakan kad Touch ‘nGo/SmartTAG dengan jumlah transaksi sebanyak 80 atau lebih dalam sebulan akan diberikan diskaun sebanyak 20% daripada jumlah pembayaran tol. Diskaun ini diberikan secara rebat.

Program ini bertujuan untuk meringankan beban pengguna yang kerap menggunakan jalan bertol untuk berulang-alik ketempat kerja

Ia terbuka kepada semua pengguna lebuhraya untuk kenderaan Kelas 1 (kereta) yang membayar tol menggunakan kad Touch ‘n Go/Smart TAG.


Pemandu kenderaan bukan Kelas 1 (Kelas 2, 3, 4 & 5), Pemandu kendenderaan Kelas 1 yang membayar tol mengunakan tunai dan Kad Fleet and Bix Xs Touch n’ Go TIDAK layak untuk mendapat faedah ini.

85,000 pengguna lebuhraya sedia ada yang menggunakan lebuhraya sekerap 80 kali atau lebih dan menggunakan kad prabayar Touch ‘n Go untuk membayar tol.

Pihak Kerajaan dijangka akan membayar rebat ini setahun.

Pengguna boleh menebus nilai rebat di 136 Kaunter-kaunter Pusat Jualan di Lebuhraya terpilih dan juga Kaunter Jualan Touch ‘n Go Untuk keterangan lanjut sila lawat http://www.llmnet.gov.my/

Most believed that the government should direct more attention to the existing public transport services as reducing traffic congestion in the city would contribute to improving the economic well-being of the nation and people.

They also agreed that the key area needing improvement is transportation, and if the transportation woes are resolved, other areas will follow through.

It was also pointed out that there are many agencies involved in the management of public transportation in the city and that there is a need for one autonomous centralised authority to operate the system like what Singapore, Vancouver and Berlin are having.

The bottom line is that Kuala Lumpur needs to get a grip on its transport problem now, and only then would its residents enjoy a better quality of life.

To say that the government is not doing anything is not true as there are plans to construct a new 42km Kota Damansara-Cheras LRT line and to extend the Kelana Jaya and Ampang LRT lines. There are also plans to buy more train coaches and stage buses.

But many transport advocates see the whole scenario as overlooking the big picture.

Take the buses, for instance. According to the Association for the Improvement of Mass-Transit in Klang Valley (Transit), the KL bus service is geared towards the peak hours and during the day you can see buses lined up and waiting at the old city areas of KL.

“Areas of congestion in old KL can be found at the bus stop areas in Lebuh Ampang (Medan Tunku), Jalan Tun H.S. Lee and the Kota Raya area where the Metrobuses are treating the area like their parking garage,” Transit adviser Moaz Yusof Ahmad said.

“There is also the Pasar Seni LRT station, the site of the Pasarama Kota, the so-called Klang Bus Stand and the unofficial Seremban bus stand. which block the traffic along the main road,” Moaz said.

These buses wait in the areas for passengers, blocking traffic and polluting the surrounding area with their burning diesel fuel.

According to Moaz, the solution lies in enforcement to keep buses moving, and building a new staging area for urban buses.

He said the DBKL should station officers in the area to monitor the buses, ensuring that each bus should have a maximum 10-minute waiting time before it had to get on the road, whether its passenger load was full or not.

In the long term, a new staging area will have to be built in KL for the urban buses. The best solution is to take advantage of the Puduraya and Plaza Rakyat areas and ensure that there is a hub and staging area for urban buses built there.

All improvement to public transport must consider the needs of the elderly, the young, and the disabled and must be designed to make it easier for people to use public transport. Improved access to public transport means that service can be faster, congestion can be reduced, and people will find it more convenient.

StarMetro is inviting feedback from city folk on ways to solve the traffic problmes in KL. Please send your emails to metro@thestar.com.my. Com-ments can also be sent to the Transit email address at: klangvalley.transit@gmail.com. The Transit website is at http://transitmy.org.

• Your comments and suggestions will be forwarded to the FT Minister.

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PETALING JAYA: The construction industry, which saw a dearth of jobs last year, has caught a glimpse of up-coming jobs from the stimulus spending this year.

This will be counter-cyclical in the sense that while the industry shrank last year, it may expand in a year of economic slowdown as the Government ramps up construction to offset negative growth in other sectors.

Analysts sense this impending recovery. CIMB Research last week said IJM Corp Bhd was eyeing nine major contracts worth at least RM9.4bil in total.

Eight are domestic projects. These include the job to build a hospital in Putrajaya, two packages involving the Pahang-Selangor interstate water project, the West Coast Expressway, the new low-cost carrier terminal in Sepang, work related to the Penang Second Bridge project and upcoming contracts to extend the existing two light rail transit (LRT) lines in the Klang Valley.

All these contracts are in various stages of negotiations, and tenders for some of these projects are yet to be called.

Other companies were also reported to be in the running for some of the projects being targeted by IJM. The prospective IJM job list gave some insight into the value of big domestic construction works that are in the pipeline.

From The Star Online Tuesday April 14, 2009

Change in service hours on Kelana Jaya Line

Petaling Jaya, 27 April 2009: Rangkaian Pengangkutan Integrasi Deras Sdn Bhd (RapidKL) would like to inform that an upgrading works will be implemented for Kelana Jaya Line on the following dates :
1. Sunday, 3 May 2009
2. Sunday, 10 May 2009
3. Sunday, 17 May 2009
4. Sunday, 24 May 2009
Pursuant to that, the LRT service between Pasar Seni and Dato' Keramat Stations will start operations after 10.00 am.

RapidKL changes bus route no. T429

Petaling Jaya, 30 March 2009 - There will be some changes on RapidKL's bus route T429 (Putrajaya Sentral - Cyberjaya Transport Terminal) commencing 1 April 2009 (Wednesday).

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