PLUS Malaysia says its Workshop on Wheels (WOW) service has been effective in reducing the number of complaints from highway users.WOW was formed to “prevent and protect highway users from being tricked by unscrupulous tow truckers and workshop operators on the highways.” 


PLUS travellers seeking help can call the toll-free PLUSLine: 1800 88 0000 or through the use of the highway emergency phones located at every two-kilometre intervals. Upon being contacted, a PLUSRonda team will be dispatched to inspect and do minor repairs where possible. Should more repairs be required the Traffic Monitoring Centre will call for a WOW unit to be assigned. The WOW unit may be able to solve the problem on-site or at a safer location along the highway. 



PLUS managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Noorizah Abd Hamid said after beginning operations almost one year ago, the service had given positive results when there was a reduction in the number of complaints.The WOW service was introduced by PLUS on Oct 22, last year as part of the continuing efforts of the company to ensure that road users enjoyed a safe, smooth and comfortable journey at all time.
News refer to 

1. http://www.star-motoring.com/News/2013/
2. http://www.nst.com.my/latest/
3. http://paultan.org/2013/07/23/

Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) menumpukan banyak usaha kepada aspek reka bentuk – luaran dan juga dalaman tren yang akan beroperasi di sepanjang 51km Laluan MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang.


Tren-tren ini direka bentuk oleh BMW Group DesignworksUSA dan dibina oleh pengeluar kereta
api terkenal Siemens AG.

Lima puluh lapan buah tren yang mengandungi empat gerabak akan dibeli, dengan setiap gerabak berkapasiti 300 orang penumpang. Tren akan  bergerak dalam dua lingkaran, dengan frekuensi di kawasan luar selama 5 minit dan pusat bandar 3.5 minit. Ini membolehkan seramai 25,000 orang penumpang dibawa dalam setiap jam dalam satu arah.




Bagi membantu MRT Corp memastikan keselesaan yang berkualiti tinggi untuk penumpang, Siemens membina sebuah model tren bagi membolehkan MRT Corp menilai dan menjalankan kajian-kajian ergonomi setiap aspek reka bentuk.

Selain daripada ergonomi, MRT Corp juga akan menentukan lokasi susur tangan, kelengkapan dan bahan yang digunakan, kerana ia perlu tahan lama dan teguh untuk penggunaan lasak dan mudah diselenggarakan. Satu aplikasi realiti maya telah dipasang di Ibu Pejabat MRT Corp yang memberikan simulasi keadaan fizikal seorang “penumpang” di dalam tren.


Jejambat pertama bagi Laluan Sungai BulohKajang MRT Lembah Klang telah berjaya didirikan berdekatan Bandar Tun Hussein Onn. Bidang jejambat yang telah siap adalah di antara. Tiang 132 dan 133 dan terletak di dalam Pakej Kerja V6 projek tersebut ke bahagian utara Stesen Bandar Tun Hussein Onn di sepanjang Lebuh Raya Cheras Kajang (Grand Saga). Jejambat yang telah siap mempunyai bidang berukuran 39.8m, dengan kelebaran 9.8 meter bagi memenuhi trek berkembar MRT.


Pembinaan bidang pertama ini bermula pada awal bulan Jun dan siap dalam masa dua minggu. Bidang-bidang yang berikutnya akan mengambil masa lima hingga tujuh hari untuk disiapkan. Jejambat bertingkat, yang akan menempatkan trek untuk tren MRT, dibina menggunakan gantri pelancaran atau “launching gantry”. Gantri ini adalah struktur kekuda besi yang dipasang di atas dua tiang bersebelahan. Ia akan bergerak dari tiang ke tiang untuk membina jejambat.

Dengan siapnya bidang pertama projek ini, gantri pelancaran akan bergerak ke arah selatan bagi membina bidang yang seterusnya di antara Tiang 133 dan 134.

Sementara itu sebuah gantri pelancaran kedua,berdekatan Flat Sri Sabah di Cheras di bawah Pakej
Kerja V5 projek juga telah menjalankan ujian muatan dan telah memulakan pembinaan jejambat.
Lebih 17 buah gantri pelancaran akan digunakan untuk membina keseluruhan 41.5km bahagian
bertingkat Laluan MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang.

Gantri-gantri ini akan berada di pelbagai lokasi.Keseluruhan jajaran bertingkat ini akan memerlukan lebih 17,000 unit SBG pelbagai saiz dan akan diletakkan di atas lebih 1,000 batang tiang.

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Pada 18 Sept, 2013, Kerajaan telah secara tidak rasmi mengambil alih operasi Sistem Penguatkuasaan Automatik ( AES) kamera seperti yang diberitahu di dalam persidangan Dewan Rakyat hari tersebut.

Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi berkata penguatkuasaan kamera AES di 14 lokasi yang dikenal pasti kini di bawah bidang kuasa polis.


"Pengambilalihan ini akan dilakukan secara telus . Satu jawatankuasa audit bebas akan melaksanakan usaha yang wajar ke atas aset dan liabiliti untuk memastikan pengambilalihan berjalan lancar berdasarkan pada kos yang adil, "katanya.

Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein mengumumkan bahawa kerajaan dimiliki syarikat AES Solutions Sdn Bhd akan mengambil alih operasi dari ATES dan Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd

Sistem AES , yang diperkenalkan pada September 2012, telah mendatang kritikan daripada orang awam terhadap penguatkuasaan yang lemah dan bahawa pengendali akan dibayar berdasarkan denda dikeluarkan.

"Kerajaan sangat mengambil berat tentang isu-isu yang dibangkitkan dan ini adalah sebab untuk pengambilalihan . Kami akan memastikan bahawa tidak ada pihak membuat keuntungan daripada itu, "katanya.

Sistem Maklumat Pengangkutan Bersepadu (ITIS) 's webcam sistem lalu lintas secara langsung dan selari. Ia akan membolehkan anda untuk melihat imej masa agak sebenar daripada kamera lalu lintas di lokasi terpilih.

Terdapat juga beberapa jenis sistem maklumat masa nyata kesesakan yang boleh diakses dengan melayari ke Laman ITIS dan klik maklumat lalu lintas masa nyata. Anda akan dapat lihat peta di atasnya. Hanya pilih yang kawasan yang anda ingin lihat melalui link di sebelah kiri dan versi yang lebih besar dengan tanda-tanda lalu lintas yang licin, lambat, atau sesak akan muncul. Laman Web ITIS juga mempunyai maklumat terkini tentang maklumat penutupan jalan terbaru.

Klik http://www.itis.com.my/

The famous Klang bus stand which is located beside Pasar Seni LRT Station will close from Nov 1 2011 for My Rapid Transit (MRT) project. Commuters are remember to take note on the new location for the buses original depart from Klang bus stand.

All the RapidKL buses will depart from Jalan Sultan Mohamed terminal which is just outside of Pasar Seni LRT Station (Where U40 and U41 depart now) except for route U91. U91 will departs from Pudu Sentral (Formerly known as Puduraya) together with Causeway Link 58k, Cityliner 710 and Seranas 99.

LRT Extension
- Kelana Jaya - Putra Height [START SOON] - 2010-2013
- Sri Petaling - Putra Height [START SOON] - 2010-2013
KTM Komuter Extension
- Sentul - Batu Caves [COMPLETED 2010]
- Seremban - Sungai Gadut [UNDER CONSTRUCTION] - 2010-2011









Gamuda Bhd and MMC Corp, two Malaysian construction companies, may team up with the government to help build a passenger rail network in Kuala Lumpur, a Gamuda executive said.

Work on the project may start in July, Gamuda group managing director Lin Yun Ling told reporters in Shah Alam, near the capital. He didn’t elaborate.

The rail project is among the US$444 billion of private sector-led projects identified by the Malaysian government to spur investments and accelerate growth in Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy. Besides the rail network, the plan includes developing a nuclear energy industry and a shopping district to rival Singapore’s Orchard Road.


Shares of Gamuda, a construction and property group based in Petaling Jaya, outside the Malaysian capital, climbed 1.6 per cent to RM3.83 at 11:45 a.m. in Kuala Lumpur trading. MMC, a power and construction company based in Kuala Lumpur, slid as much as 1.1 per cent to RM2.79.

Gamuda and MMC, which proposed the mass-transit system, will likely be the master planners of the project if they offer the best pricing, Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said Nov. 2011.

The RM570 million integrated transport terminal at Bandar Tasik Selatan here promises city commuters a comfortable and convenient balik kampung experience when it starts operating on Jan 1, 2011.

Operating just like an airport, terminal operator Maju Terminal Management and Services (Maju TMAS) will not only focus on providing high-technology facilities, but will also create an environmentally friendly surrounding.

Maju TMAS managing director Roslan Mohd Shariff said the new terminal will be "very different" from other bus terminals in the country.

"We might be a newcomer in managing a bus terminal, but we have made this terminal different to benefit not only commuters, but also bus operators," he told the New Straits Times yesterday.

"One of the special features is the centralised ticketing system where Maju TMAS will be selling the tickets on behalf of bus operators to put an end to touting activities."

Tickets sold will bear passengers' names, similar to that of boarding passes issued by airlines.

The terminal, which was designed to cater to 40,000 commuters, will be handling 1,100 bus trips from the south and north regions.

Buses arriving at the terminal will wait at a special holding area of 100 bays before being instructed to move to a vacant bay at the arrival area.

Following the go-green effort, the terminal has more than 10,000 species of flora as part of its landscape.

Roslan said the terminal was also designed to receive as much natural light as possible where the building was mostly covered with transparent glass.

In terms of maintenance and security, he said Maju TMAS promised to keep the terminal in its best care.

"We have experience in managing buildings and will not compromise on the standards of security and maintenance.

"I believe a world-class terminal should come with a world-class maintenance and security system. Not only the government will be impressed, but also the rakyat will be proud of the terminal."

The terminal has 500 closed-circuit television cameras, with 200 to 250 police officers on duty.

It also forms part of the government's initiative to move the north- and south-bound long-haul buses to a new location outside the city centre.

Taking about three years to complete, the terminal was constructed by Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd and covers an area of 19.8ha.

The terminal has six floors, 55 bus platforms, 150 taxi bays, 1,000 parking bays (including dedicated bays for women) and 1,800 seats for the public in the fully air-conditioned waiting halls.

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