Agree. Some of the station position is middle of no where. And this mistake ir repeated again in Penang. No station at Queensbay area despite a high volume area. And Jelutong station is located on the side of highway beside the Straits. No residential at all
This is why I highly suggest you guys to give feedback and lobby for MRT3 to have a stop nearby. I have chipped in my suggestion too to have a proposed station next to Abadi Villa condominium.
the issue is not about lrt mrt coverage, but the issue is I can’t even cross the 8 lane road to get to the train station. Walkability needs to be revamped.
@@Kai-rust Nope, i would say not most. Even pedestrian bridge in some areas only connecting to high end condominium, which what I think are the Crony developer. Go to some old areas, low price apartment area, you hardly see connecting bridge to residential area. One good example, Bandar Utama station, opposite the station across LDP, there were clearly residential areas, but connection bridge wasn't built, instead, resident need to hop on the feeder bus, which the frequency was 20min for peak hours. How will that make sense, if you live there, which if you walk with a connecting bridge should only take you 15mins(max mayb).
@@scottng8171 walkability in general is definitely an issue, esp the last mile. taking the BU MRT station as an example, getting to say Burung Hantu in TTDI is a nightmare. crossing highways, then walking along the side of the road that's hardly paved means each trip is a roll of the dice if you'll get bonked by a driver. now I don't drive, and coming there from KL, I'd rather take a Grab for the entire journey than make a long MRT trip and overpay for a short Grab ride at the end.
Great video!! It's hard to find urban design and public transport discussion in UA-cam about Malaysia roads and Public transport as they're usually about US and other countries, like RMTransit, NotJustBikes, StreetCraft and etc. I'm really glad you're bringing awareness within malaysian as I've noticed Malaysia is slowly becoming more and more car centric just like the US with road proritized over good public infrastructure and transit. Though that said im really glad malaysia is making an effort like the new RTS Link, LRT3 almost completed, and the Penang Mutiara Line. All the best with the future videos!!
@@KLMetroscape ahahah dont worry, we all start somewhere, the fact you were able to bring it all together into a video to discuss is already something we have yet to seen in malaysia so im really glad, Keep up with the future video! If any suggestion, i could say try to speak louder and with more energry as speaking with enthusiastic and energy makes it so the viewer feel like they should care and that you are enthusiastic about the discussion you're having. from what i can tell you seem to be whispering, so just trying speaking normally and not whispering. I also think u can use their video as reference to shape your content too! All the best, i'll be cheering you from the sidelines!
I'm glad a local Malaysian is bringing this up. Many have complained, but rarely provide proper analysis. I strongly support public transport, but bad urban planning and poor political will ruins everything.
*I have been to Kuala Lumpur as a tourist and fell in love with the city.* *However,* *the only negative things that I saw is bad urban planning,* *reckless drivers and inefficient public transport.*
Walkability is a MAJOR issue in malaysia, even my housing estate doesn't have sidewalk/overpass if i want to walk to my nearest grocery without crossing the main road
@@wasimsedharis7296i dont know what kind of kuala lumpur or europe your talking about american but kuala lumpur and europuan cities aren't boring and are also not very grid like and Kuala for me seems to have a normal amount of greenery and yes i have visited it before 3 times
"bad urban planning?" sorry mate you got that wrong. We have NO urban planning whatsoever! We are a city where developers reign supreme, and can and do build whatever they want, wherever!
"unpopular measures" is a huge understatement. Car worship is very deeply ingrained in Malaysian culture. Any politician that dares challenge the sanctity of the private vehicle will lose all support to the next opportunist willing to pander to the masses.
Ok I am a huge supporter of public transport. I am one of the voters that voted mrt1 to be extended from cheras-damansara to sg buloh-kajang. Its not JUST about 'sanctity of private vehicle'. i drive between puchong and kajang everyday because i live and work bewteen the two. both locations has public trains but i still have to drive everyday. why? because in both locations i cannot reach my intended location from the stations. there is no proper walkaway or bike lane to and fro the stations. if govt started taxing and/or impose rules we all know that will only means burdening me financially more. i would still be ok if it means proper walkaway/bicycle lane can be built within 10 years but we all know it won't be that 'quick' (if 10yrs is quick lol). one thing for sure someone will be rich because of it. even if it is built the facility will never have proper maintenance. KL already has a huge disadvantages of intense heat and pouring rain. if you put the danger of having to cross multiple highways and main roads just to get from the stations to my place, BOTH WAYS, don't you dare trying to impose rules about private vehicles.
A lot of it is thanks to the generational push to instill national pride in Malaysians for the national car brand Proton which has since blossomed into just a complete love for cars and using them as a status symbol
As it should, I love cars and driving. If you want public transport, just build it above ground and build pedestrian bridges over highways connecting to Metro station. I've been to European cities, walking sucks and I don't want to walk everywhere.
@@benjaminleekhenheng3411 This is true. Mahathir was, and still is, a deep car-lover. He dreamed that every Malaysian would own a car. As a result, the urban planning philosophy in the years that followed was extremely car-centric. It will take decades worth of work to undo the damage done.
Dear Sir, I am very very grateful that there is someone here discussing about public transport in Malaysia. As someone living in KL for the last 30+ years, I cannot stress how important this video is to us who are getting tired of the traffic jams. I have been thinking about this problem for many years, and the solution always points to one thing, which is government policies. Policies can be translated into commitment. Without commitment from authorities, any planning and action will come into disarray, which you have described in this video. However, government only acts by the will of the people (or personally I believe industries). But industries, specifically xxx industries will not be happy if government enacted pro-PT because they think these policies are not making them any more money. For the reverse to happen, the industry itself as a whole needs to feel the cost of traffic on their finances. But to wait for the cost of traffic to outweigh the cost of PT, that day may never come. I think your channel has very big potential in dealing with this matter. We need to educate people and smash the car culture in our society. Don't let it consume us like in other car-centric countries. Some recommendation on future video: 1. Why are we forced to own cars. 2. Relevance of MRT3 to KV residence. 3. Elevated highway and its effect to cities 4. Why people don't ride PT (more detail). 5. Film your own experience dealing with traffic and the weakness of our PT. 6. Film some citizens lashed out their stress of traffic. 7. Urban planning in Malaysia. 8. Discussion of government policies on private vehicles and PT. 9. How automotive industries make traffic worse. 10. Car culture in Malaysia, how chronic it is. Subscribed (244th)
Bagus ada urban planning channel dari Malaysia, selama ni byk tengok luar negara punya je. Harap makin banyak video menyusul. From my worst experience, the issue is the bus system particularly the infrequent trip and poor poor pedestrian walkway. Though if this improving in the near future (hopefully), i live outside of the city think it is still difficult to move around on foot or bicycle because housing area are sprawling farther from city center and separated from commercial area that connected by motorway. This is due to poor town planning i believe. Right now only KL under the spotlight for urban improvement hope other Malaysian cities like JB, SA, PJ, IPOH start improving as well.
I love that Cyberjaya City Centre is located nowhere near Cyberjaya city centre. It also has no parking, which means that there's no reason for anyone to use the station over Cyberjaya Utara, which is even more further out and unwalkable. in the end, the only places those stations service is Skypark (a failed mall which only serves as an apartment) and Lim Kok Wing (a uni that doesnt even have accreditation anymore) i waited years for it to be built, and i still have to get in my car to get to it in the end. but i guess it could be worse, considering we could have also had the MEX 2 run straight thru the city....
i still dont get it why the cyberjaya city centre got no park and ride. it literally the main reason sometimes the roads to the mrt got blocked by the car that parks on the roadside.
@@m.muhymin5793 if you look at satellite, it seems like there's space for a car park right next to the place behind that weird fence. but pshh, thatd be useful and convenient, so why bother right.
I am native KLite working in Singapore. My KL home is in one of the neighbourhoods that are poorly served by rail transit. Once, I was hosting my Singaporean colleague at my home. My mom offered to drop us off at the "nearest" station (15-20 mins driving time away according to Google Maps) that was served by the same line as where we were going. The station was on the side of a major road with no obvious place for dropping off. My Singaporean colleague was smirking while I was embarrassed. My mom ended up drove us to our destination.
Gov need to study urban plannning and demands on how to tackle riders using MRT...some place not many riders to use it...and i agreed with the view ..need good studying on urban planning if new MRT line to build in future plan
blame on resident of housing area..why do you think station far from home? those people la.. reason traffic jam la, crime la, people park at their home la bla bla bla
So nice to see someone talking about this! I've lived in KL for 2+ years and love the city, but walking around or getting somewhere is hard. I had to call grab several time because I simply could not cross a road or hit a dead end. Can't imagine what people who lived here all their lives and got their block cut off by a highway or huge gated condo feel. It seems like there is general lack of concern about some citizens, unfortunately - more highways, more gated communities, more high rises built right in front of someone's windows blocking the view with 8 levels of parking. Hope this changes
It would be great to add a new train line starting from Klang (Johan Setia), passing through Putra Heights to connect with the LRT Kelana Jaya Line and Sri Petaling Line. The line could then extend to Bandar Puchong Utama, continue through Cyberjaya (where it would be highly beneficial for students), connect with the MRT Putrajaya Line at Putrajaya Sentral, and stop at IOI City Mall, Hospital Serdang, UNITEN, and Bandar Baru Bangi. Finally, it could connect with the Kajang Line, with the last station located in Semenyih.
I didn't do my research well enough last time and booked an accomodation very close to a station one the map. Unfortunately it was actually inaccessible. To get there I would have needed like 1 hour walking even though its was actually close. I had to use taxis for the entire stay and paid a ton for that. I just arrived in KL for the second time and this time I did my research with that street view function to really simulate me walking to the station and check if there are any obstacles and if there are ways to cross streets.
I’m fortunate that my home and workplace is convenient to use public transportation I’m only a 8-minute walk from home to the bus stop, and my workplace is only a 3-minute walk from the bus stop. And I don’t need to switch lines, the Putrajaya MRT line is a mostly comfortable ride. I haven’t driven to work for over a year already.
Great video bro, pls make more videos like this, thanks to your video, now I know that the Philippines and Malaysia face the same problems in the public transportation sector
As someone born and raised in KL who studied in London, I am always in awe at how much more convenient London's public transport is. Coming back home always makes me wish for better public transport.
My biggest gripe is Malaysia's lack of real proper urban planning - everything is an afterthought, then tries to build highways to "solve" traffic issues, which I know will never truly solve them because most of those urban highways just redistributes traffic elsewhere. Then the lack of proper, safe and wide walkways frustrates me the most. Even if there are any walkways, they are inconsistent, illogical, and are wide enough just for one person to walk by. Pedestrians are often an afterthought. Then speaking of poorly situated stations at 3:40, even the yet-to-be-operational LRT3 has stations between the Subang Jaya NKVE toll and Damansara that boggles me (map at 9:48). Terribly placed along the highway with poor first-last mile access and does not cover more densely populated areas.
Thank you for showing the Cyberjaya City Centre station. It's funny that they name it "City Centre" when it's actually in the middle of jungle. 🤣. Like nobody even live there, why on earth would you want to build a station there. And then there is the Cyberjaya South station, also in the middle of nowhere. Then there is the Putrajaya Sentral line, also in the middle of nowhere with zero apartment or residential area within walkable distance. What are these people doing with our money? The problem is Malaysians do not complain enough. I once wrote to Cyberview via email, the company that manages Cyberjaya town planning. I angrily attacked them for the ridiculous location of the 2 train station. Surprisingly they did respond to my email. However they gave me such a laughable answer. More and more people should do this. If thousands of us make a big fuss about it, they will be scared.
Glad that you pointed out the fundamental problem of Malaysia urban planning. Not only for public transport but effective waste management is also dependent on better urban planning and traffic flow Just imagine building high rise and high residential with only bus line. How can KPKT (Ministry of Housing and Local Governance) approve such project If bus line is the only option it should be low density housing. High density housing should be access to rail line. The MRT line 1 and 2 is designed for commercial and offices. The LRT Kelana Jaya and Petaling line is designed to for Commonwealth 1998 games. KTM Kommuter line is just a re-design from cargo to passager transport. Monorail Line is design for tourism. ERL line was design to connect city center and airport. None of this line is actually design for transporting residential and workforces to their workplace driving the economy. Take Puchong case. Filled with many residential zones, high and low densities and center of Klang Valley. The lifeline is LDP road. The desires of the locals is to commute from Seri Kembangan or Putrajaya area to Kepong for work/leisure at malls. The only way is by bus can take up 1 hour with 40 minutes waiting time or LRT/MRT and buses for 3 hours with 5 to 40 minutes waiting time at different interchange. If use own car, a person can be at destination at 35 to 45 minutes without waiting time The time value money of own car weights more than public transport
Last mile connectivity is the biggest issue. People normalise having to do things like walking on the road and crossing busy highway sections without traffic lights but that isn't normal for a global city. WIth the amount of engagement on this video, it is quite obvious that many people realise this and feel strongly about it. I encourage everyone to write to their local council (e.g. DBKL, MBPJ) or state rep (their sites have a form or email address) when you see infrastructure that makes no sense e.g. missing footpaths, traffic lights without pedestrian crossings, lack of maintenance on shade trees leading to collapse or removal, areas with low connectivity or areas with insufficient parking spaces etc. Most members are very proactive as they seek to be re-elected so if enough of the same issue is raised the higher the chance these things get done.
some people buy car just to go to the MRT because their resident just that far away from the stations. Paying car installment and parking fee so you can ride MRT is very mind-blowing for me. I can see the MRT station just from my house but to go there i need to cross a very busy road with fast car and no pedestrian walk.
Great video! For next video please suggest future MRT and LRT lines and where it could possible cover. Areas like Cyberjaya that goes into the city and IOI CITY with Serdang Hospital and Uniten really requires a train line to ease the people.
I used to live 25km away from office and using public transportation 100% take 2 hours to reach. Now that I live 100km away and somehow it still take the same amount of commute time, make that make sense. It’s unfortunate that provided feeder bus to nearby station still take hefty amount of travel time due to stuck in traffic and the amont of time wasting is frustrating.
Public transport involves every one of us and we all can together agree that we hate getting stuck in jams for hours each day. Having accessable public transport is in everyone's interest and you did a great job in addressing the main problems we are facing
Please see it as constructive feedback: the narrating voice could be better. Maybe it is the microphone, it also seems a bit monotonic. Anyway, great content.
honestly bus lane enforcement will be an easy way to increase reveneues in the short term lmao, but they really need to add physical seperation from the normal lanes to prevent drivers just using it when the cops arent there
I loved going through the comments! Anyway I feel that the mindset needs to change too for some. I come from a family that hardly uses public transport. There is just that euphoric feel to always drive your own car at all times no matter what. I am thankful that I never had that !
Great video that really brings insight and also presents concepts that could be integrated rather than just pointing things out. The car-centricness of Malaysia right now could almost be up to par with the usa which is honestly horrible, the amount of highways being built despite them not being needed is not only wasting money that could be better spent on more accessible upgrades to existing stations and allocate more towards maintenance of the trainsets and tracks because how did the kajang line have so many trainsets out of commission depsite them being i think not even a decade old? And another big issue of kl is the urban sprawl, there is way too many low density housing outside the kl area, nilai as an example, a ton of low density housing on the side of the highway which makes the city even more car-centric, while trains like the ktm commuter would and could help with slightly mitigating this massive traffic issue, from what ive seen, the train stations themselves are difficult to get to, not only that but the frequency is not high thats for sure, alongside the fact that the ktm commuter cant really carry as many people for the frequency, it makes the problem even worse. 120b rm on mrt wasted? To an extent yes, to another extent no, if accesibility upgrades and better station placements rather than on the side of the highways were done, ridership would for sure be a lot higher than it is now, but another problem is LRT, they dont have high capacity which doesnt help as rush hour as is on the lrt is pretty full with 2023 sering 102% coach capacity per coach in kj line, now its 98% or 96% because frequency was cut down to 1.9 minutes or so. So to say that if the mrt really did reach the estimated ridership, goodluck for the lrt in rush hour. Anyways thats my stupid rant done, very nice high quality video, keep it up👍
Your comments on KJL being busy are interesting. It is still below its 2019 peak ridership. This is why data is so important. I suspect, like KGL, it needs more trains, so the line is unlikely to be at capacity.
@@oldcentral considéring thé kajang Line in 5 yéars some are alréady out of commission and KLIA aérotrains getting major breakdowns béforé it was suspended, baséd on these maintenance issue? its possible kj Line is under thé same issue bécause some of thé trains they use are a bit more older, however I dont réally think kj Line is as busy as they Say, its only busy in some stations, one thing is for sure though, its litérally a Ghost train in thé area outside of KL, I uséd to go to putra heights for the lrt kj Line as a joyrider and me and m'y parents were thé only ones in thé train most of thé time until around usj so i doubt thé kj Line is as busy as they Say for rush hour excépt for somé handful of station I know are Abdullah hukum, bangsar, Kerinchi and KL sentral but yeah I agréé, wé need more actual data to réally undérstand why is thé ridership number lower
I live and work in Shah Alam. My workplace is just 3km away from my apartment. For the past 2 years, I had to force myself to use the free Smart Selangor bus because I felt it wasn't necessary for me to get a car yet. But sadly, these buses are very poor in service. The drivers are rude. Sometimes they purposely speed up the bus to avoid stopping at bus stops. It could have just been a 10 minutes ride to work but I had to wait 40 minutes for the bus. Sometimes, these drivers use a shortcut and skip the usual route. Their reason? Not many passengers use the bus stop, the road here is too narrow for the bus, blah blah. Now, I had no choice but to dig up my savings for a car.
The time it takes for me to walk from my house to SS18 LRT station (2.2 km) is shorter than the time it takes for me to wait for the shuttle bus to ferry me to said station. I visited Japan recently, and the infrastructure was wayyy more pedestrian friendly than Malaysia. Good coverage, excellent service, punctuality, etc. I think all I can do right now is just pray that relevant authorities step up their game...
In my opinion, there are several things that the government needs to work on. First is ERP gantry to discourage people from using cars, second is ensure that all the MRT stations have a few feeder buses that pick-up passengers from surrounding neighborhoods and finally ensure that there are lots of walkways and bridges that are linked to MRT stations.
I hope your video reaches the policy maker who sitting in the office planning the infrastructure, I used to take mrt transit to lrt pre covid, now I drives to office due to flexible working hour 😅😅
i live in a neighborhood that has MRT station (about 1KM from my place, walkable). My working place is also very near to MRT station (300m). First and last mile is really a big issue especially during the rainy days and hot summer season. I tried using electric scooter (foldable, xiaomi brand) to counter this issue. However, during peak hour it is almost impossible to bring my scooter inside the MRT wagon. Finally, after a month of trying to live with public transport, I give up and ride a bike instead.
JB also same the traffic here is getting worse 😢, bad roads, street lights not functioning, lack of infrastructure, lack of pedestrian and cycling paths especially elderly, inefficient drainage system, reckless drivers and inefficient public transportation. Bad urban planning though.
Almost everywhere in Malaysia is like this. Even my ''town'' is starting to traffic jam almost everyday with influx of new people, cars and new residential apartment buildings.
I blame Tun Mahathir, during his golden days as PM, he's too focus and empowering automobile sector (local cars obviously) until the cars overtake the roads and have to extend and extend the freaking roads to be freaking highways.
Same! My mum was a civil servant, and told me that there were sustainable urban planning which includes public transportation projects way back in the 80's, but nothing became of it. I suspected those projects were scrapped once Mahathir got a firm grasp on power, and shifted focus to Proton instead.
@@thismissivemisfit same with ECRL, after PH winning the pru, they scraped ecrl and downgrade freaking LRT3 SHAH ALAM line. Politicians and poor politics destroy everything.
Agreed. The national car project also forces Malaysians to buy lower quality local cars. All that money spent should have been focused on promoting public transport.
He has step down for years, stop blaming. We had so many pm after Dr. M, but did any of them really put effort to solve traffic and public transport issue, unfortunately, none.
the fact that u need a car or motor to use the mrt or lrt is so fucking stupid. feeder busses are useless. walkability is non existence. THANK YOUUUU for this video and speaking my mind out. hoping for more to come. SUBSCRIBED!!
Another issue is accessibility at transit stations. For example, none of the KL Monorail stations have operational elevators. Many stations also only have upwards escalators, if any at all.
The feeder buses are never on time and are frequently out of service leaving wait time going from 30 mins to 1 hour. I would walk the last mile, but our urban nightmare makes it hard to walk from the station back home, and the rain makes it even harder. The gated community is indeed a real struggle, I have a station near my workplace separated by a steel bridge and the condo developer next to it tried to remove it.
I would agree with most of the points stated in the video, except for maybe some points like law-enforcement. Law enforcement can only do so much. KL as a metropolitan have lives through multiple political environments, but any politicians trying to woo KL voters will definitely point out issue of transport within the city. Then there lies corruption, or actually a stronger case of narrow-mindedness of developers. Don't simply blame the government of incompetence. The issue is, like highlighted in the video, a developer building the most housing units possible within their budget and then let the public works sort out the accessibility issue to their property. Those big gated community apartments? Tell them to build a pedestrian bypass (maybe a tunnel, maybe a bridge). Many developers think this kind of addition to their whole real-estate development would only diminish their profit when in-fact, those with great pedestrian access would actually raise their real-estate value due to being super convenient to those with no driving license such as new foreigners and young workers who don't have transports. The SEVERE LACK of ease of access to public transportation facilities in general indeed makes these ridership low. The only reason why MRT ridership is not zero is cost, driving license ownership and traffic. Sometimes however, the location of some of the station might have been forced by circumstances, but even then such station had never include pedestrian access which I would say, the biggest problem. Solution? The government has to appoint urban planning boards, put into law a more practical regulations for urban developers and enforce it. In short, SAFE WALKABLE PATHS TO MRT.
A well thought out and researched video . In my opinion, Malaysia will not grow without pedestrian first infrastructure. If Malaysia wants to be the next Asian Tiger , it will need to fix this problem nationwide or it’s all just a pipe dream. In my opinion
its good that you pointed out how taking public transportation is often time many multiples of the time it would take to get there by driving. Its usually just not worth it.
planning issue aside, the biggest hurdle in the region is just education. folks just don't have the mindset to care. This won't change anytime soon. Car will still be king for the next hundred years.
Yes every time I pass by these mrt/ lrt stations I will have the same feeling.. Most of the mrt / lrt stations are building in places very inaccessible. By right, all these stations can bring in a lot more economic value in addition to just improving traffics. Look at all stations in Japan and hk. It is always build next to shops / residences. Ours are as the video mentioned, ridiculously inaccessible. It just felt like they build for the purpose of building only.
The TTDI Resident Association needs to take responsibility for protesting against and getting the pedestrian bridge to Stesen Bandar Utama CANCELLED. We should get more and better non-car connections to the stations adoi la korang boomers ni
imo. Issue is how do you want to go from the MRT station to your destination? My house is only 1.3 km away from the nearest MRT. There are no walkable paths from MRT to my house than won't put you at risk off some car hitting me. Even my office to the nearest is only 1.1km. But there ain't no way I am walking in a busy road where there is no pedestrian walking.
There's a lot of people graduated with Town and Regional Planning Degree from local University every year, but it is a strange mystery why they don't end up planning our cities?
The issue is if the government can bear the higher cost then yes we can build the line with better alignment and yes this line was for complementing the hsr project. Plus had the kj line paid link tunnel was build in ag park then the attraction would be higher with more high frequent and large coverage for feeder bus. Ridership growth issue will be more contained than ever.
Removing petrol subsidy would hurt people where public transportation simply doesn't exist no where in the country except for some places in klang valley have metro lines
Talk to your local rep on how the access can be improved. Lucky my home is around 500m to the LRT3 station with connection to BU MRT. Looking forward to ditch the car and commute to my workplace.
I live in a place close to 4 LRT & MRT stations: LRT Maluri, LRT Pandan Jaya, MRT Maluri & MRT Cochrane but all of them have to walk 30 minutes to reach
Maybe government just need to start redesign KL, force acquisition those building that’s block the walkability. rethink if they wanted the level of support to local vehicle brand
Car is a need for any family. It is beyond denying. There has to be a link from the airport to the city hub. In this regard, KL Sentral speaks well. Next from the port to the city hub, we have to bank on KTM. KTM is currently going through a double tracking development phase which prompts its service being slow or delayed. It cannot be compared to the ERL which is the airport link to KL Sentral. Therefore the best port solution would be KTM which needs to buck up in its services. Its link is also to KL Sentral. The centralised link to KL Sentral which encompasses the airport link, the port link, the inter state link, inter city link, the urban link vide LRT, Monorail and MRT benefits the surrounding hub of Brickfields, Bangsar and Taman Seputeh. Such a connectivity will not be in any other belt of the Klang Valley. Therefore, there has to be a connectivity belt between KL Sentral and other belts within the Klang Valley. The development of the LRT and MRT does not really solve the issue. The feeder service should complement the links, which currently not being the case because of the traffic density. Therefore, the only getaway within the city hub is a private vehicle.
as a KLites and who had to drive to work due to poor public transport in this city, I thanked you for this video. MRT kuchai is just that too poor planed, in Malay we say, melepaskan batuk ditangga. This shit also affects old KTM station in the whole country, hard to access for public.
Government needs to spend a lot of budgets in pedestrian infrastructure instead of bicycle lane that nobody use. JKR also need to update new regulation for road that each road needs to build sidewalk.
I used to be an urban planning consultant in PJ, advocating for public transport and walkability is a fate worse than herding cats, upper management is too drunk on their own kool-aid of car worship. From my personal experience, the voices/advise of technocrats aren’t taken into account (unless you’re a traffic engineer, no hate tho), the policymakers are too focused on the next election cycle, the private sector is too blindsided by short-term gains and the next contract than to properly integrate their projects with the surrounding neighbourhood/urban systems, and the public oh so inclined towards buying landed single family housing that heavily relies on private vehicles coz that’s what’s all they know.
1.They sell 8 million vehicles per year to Malaysians 2.Cars and motorcycles are so cheap and you can have a 9 years loan with RM300/month payment 3.Road tax and tolls are the cheapest in asia 4.They keep building roads and highways everywhere 5.The MRT, LRT, komuter stations are mostly located in sparsely populated locations like seputeh, salak selatan, sungai buloh. Everytime reaching seputeh, nobody exit or enter. 6.Petrol is among the cheapest in the universe 7.Malaysians are overweight and walking 1 km to stations will kill them instantly 8.Climate here are so freaking hot and humid, it's summer 365 days a year 9.MRT busses are running following drivers' moods, whims and fancy.
I can take the bus to the nearby MRT station that will take 1 hour just to reach the station OR I can drive to the office that takes only 1 hour This is a problem that the public transportation in Malaysia can't solve yet. I don't want to drive. I hate driving to work. But I hate wasting my time on commute more than I hate driving. It sucks for us common people.
Agree! I used to commute from KL to Sunway Geo office previously. Took about 2 hours journey to office and another 2 hours went back home. Plus, there is no walkway to walk to the train station and need to walk on the big highway which is unsafe. Recently I have move to scooter ride and much more save time as it only took 20 minutes journey. Seriously the public transportation planning within Klang Valley area are worst.
Besides building the LRT/MRT then Pasarana Rapid KL should extend the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) further to connect those residential areas to served as last mile connection to the nearest MRT/LRT station based on their locality. Plus the buses should be ongoing and not waiting for buses to fill up completely then only move. Just follow the Singapore bus example.
Too much landed house in KL is the main reason for inefficient MRT! Can you imagine a MRT in Great LA where most people live in landed house? City like Singapore,HK, Taipei, Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, Beijing, London , Manhattan were living in multi-storey apartments! That makes a huge difference (10-20times) in number of residents per square kilometre in KL, LA versus the remaining cities mentioned above!
Society need to level up their mentality as well, as a rider, aku pun menyampah tengok motor "hon" kereta signal nak switch lane. lane splitting is not our right/priority. btw about the problems you stated, its not about money, the government CAN do it, they just dont want to. selagi mana theres no "casualities" theyre not gonna change it.
Hi, thanks for watching. I personally used a tool called JOSM to download a GeoJSON file from Putrajaya's line relation from OpenStreetMap. The GeoJSON for all stations comes from here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:MRT_Sungai_Buloh-Putrajaya_Line_mapframe
another main reason to me personally, people racing to buy landed house outside of KL. making it pretty impossible for any public transport to be their main transportation going into KL. hopefully our line'll be as big as in Japan.
Our office and house still far from the LRT/MRT station.. Etc, do Selayang area got LRT, do Greenwood got LRT/MRT.. do Sri Hartamas got LRT/MRT.. the coverage not overall… That why people still need to use car… Bus service not convinience since the traffic itself already jamn…
yes they use car and park at lrt/mrt station. so incovenience. they sould implement more rapid buses line & DRT van. drt van is so conveniece because it can go inside very tight residential streets unlike buses
Malaysia always build away from high-traffic areas and place them in no man's land. When they put it near a neighborhood like Taman Naga Emas, they don't redevelop the run-down public apartments.
One more thing is If we have nice pedestrians walkway, those space will occupy by hawker, permanent block the walk way with their stall block even they not in business.
Just gonna say this is a very good study and with very constructive suggestion. I will share from my social but my influence is small. Collab with an influencer or youtuber if can to raise more awareness.
I am one of the residents at Taman Desa. I can see the station from my house, yet it took me an hour to walk there.
You could team up with other residents and reach out to your local MP. If enough people push for the foot/bike path, you might succeed.
@@KLMetroscapeanother solution is to provide a storage space for escooters at every station. Doing this will reduce the use of parking space.
@@muzammilm.nurdin3349 but will increase vandalization sad but true...
Agree. Some of the station position is middle of no where. And this mistake ir repeated again in Penang. No station at Queensbay area despite a high volume area. And Jelutong station is located on the side of highway beside the Straits. No residential at all
This is why I highly suggest you guys to give feedback and lobby for MRT3 to have a stop nearby. I have chipped in my suggestion too to have a proposed station next to Abadi Villa condominium.
the issue is not about lrt mrt coverage, but the issue is I can’t even cross the 8 lane road to get to the train station. Walkability needs to be revamped.
I thought most station are equipped with pedestrian bridge?
need to turn around so far away just to get to the station that is literally in font of me is quite a letdown.
@@Kai-rust Nope, i would say not most. Even pedestrian bridge in some areas only connecting to high end condominium, which what I think are the Crony developer. Go to some old areas, low price apartment area, you hardly see connecting bridge to residential area. One good example, Bandar Utama station, opposite the station across LDP, there were clearly residential areas, but connection bridge wasn't built, instead, resident need to hop on the feeder bus, which the frequency was 20min for peak hours. How will that make sense, if you live there, which if you walk with a connecting bridge should only take you 15mins(max mayb).
@@scottng8171 walkability in general is definitely an issue, esp the last mile. taking the BU MRT station as an example, getting to say Burung Hantu in TTDI is a nightmare. crossing highways, then walking along the side of the road that's hardly paved means each trip is a roll of the dice if you'll get bonked by a driver. now I don't drive, and coming there from KL, I'd rather take a Grab for the entire journey than make a long MRT trip and overpay for a short Grab ride at the end.
@@Kai-rust even with pedestrians bridge, is difficult for some old people to walk up, it always space anti social gathering
Great video!! It's hard to find urban design and public transport discussion in UA-cam about Malaysia roads and Public transport as they're usually about US and other countries,
like RMTransit, NotJustBikes, StreetCraft and etc.
I'm really glad you're bringing awareness within malaysian as I've noticed Malaysia is slowly becoming more and more car centric just like the US with road proritized over good public infrastructure and transit. Though that said im really glad malaysia is making an effort like the new RTS Link, LRT3 almost completed, and the Penang Mutiara Line. All the best with the future videos!!
Thanks! I wish the video was as entertaining as the ones from @NotJustBikes I'll try to get better 😌
@@KLMetroscape ahahah dont worry, we all start somewhere, the fact you were able to bring it all together into a video to discuss is already something we have yet to seen in malaysia so im really glad, Keep up with the future video!
If any suggestion, i could say try to speak louder and with more energry as speaking with enthusiastic and energy makes it so the viewer feel like they should care and that you are enthusiastic about the discussion you're having. from what i can tell you seem to be whispering, so just trying speaking normally and not whispering. I also think u can use their video as reference to shape your content too! All the best, i'll be cheering you from the sidelines!
RMTransit actually did commented about our public transportation not being pedestrian friendly
I'm glad a local Malaysian is bringing this up. Many have complained, but rarely provide proper analysis. I strongly support public transport, but bad urban planning and poor political will ruins everything.
*I have been to Kuala Lumpur as a tourist and fell in love with the city.*
*However,* *the only negative things that I saw is bad urban planning,* *reckless drivers and inefficient public transport.*
Grid city like europe, very boring… same building design repeat over and over again, no green…
Agree, as a malay Malaysian I feel embarrassed with our leaders for not focusing on public transport seriously
Walkability is a MAJOR issue in malaysia, even my housing estate doesn't have sidewalk/overpass if i want to walk to my nearest grocery without crossing the main road
@@wasimsedharis7296i dont know what kind of kuala lumpur or europe your talking about american but kuala lumpur and europuan cities aren't boring and are also not very grid like and Kuala for me seems to have a normal amount of greenery and yes i have visited it before 3 times
"bad urban planning?" sorry mate you got that wrong. We have NO urban planning whatsoever! We are a city where developers reign supreme, and can and do build whatever they want, wherever!
"unpopular measures" is a huge understatement. Car worship is very deeply ingrained in Malaysian culture. Any politician that dares challenge the sanctity of the private vehicle will lose all support to the next opportunist willing to pander to the masses.
Ok I am a huge supporter of public transport. I am one of the voters that voted mrt1 to be extended from cheras-damansara to sg buloh-kajang. Its not JUST about 'sanctity of private vehicle'. i drive between puchong and kajang everyday because i live and work bewteen the two. both locations has public trains but i still have to drive everyday. why? because in both locations i cannot reach my intended location from the stations. there is no proper walkaway or bike lane to and fro the stations. if govt started taxing and/or impose rules we all know that will only means burdening me financially more. i would still be ok if it means proper walkaway/bicycle lane can be built within 10 years but we all know it won't be that 'quick' (if 10yrs is quick lol). one thing for sure someone will be rich because of it. even if it is built the facility will never have proper maintenance. KL already has a huge disadvantages of intense heat and pouring rain. if you put the danger of having to cross multiple highways and main roads just to get from the stations to my place, BOTH WAYS, don't you dare trying to impose rules about private vehicles.
A lot of it is thanks to the generational push to instill national pride in Malaysians for the national car brand Proton which has since blossomed into just a complete love for cars and using them as a status symbol
car religion smh
As it should, I love cars and driving. If you want public transport, just build it above ground and build pedestrian bridges over highways connecting to Metro station. I've been to European cities, walking sucks and I don't want to walk everywhere.
@@benjaminleekhenheng3411 This is true. Mahathir was, and still is, a deep car-lover. He dreamed that every Malaysian would own a car. As a result, the urban planning philosophy in the years that followed was extremely car-centric. It will take decades worth of work to undo the damage done.
Dear Sir, I am very very grateful that there is someone here discussing about public transport in Malaysia. As someone living in KL for the last 30+ years, I cannot stress how important this video is to us who are getting tired of the traffic jams.
I have been thinking about this problem for many years, and the solution always points to one thing, which is government policies. Policies can be translated into commitment. Without commitment from authorities, any planning and action will come into disarray, which you have described in this video. However, government only acts by the will of the people (or personally I believe industries). But industries, specifically xxx industries will not be happy if government enacted pro-PT because they think these policies are not making them any more money. For the reverse to happen, the industry itself as a whole needs to feel the cost of traffic on their finances. But to wait for the cost of traffic to outweigh the cost of PT, that day may never come.
I think your channel has very big potential in dealing with this matter. We need to educate people and smash the car culture in our society. Don't let it consume us like in other car-centric countries.
Some recommendation on future video:
1. Why are we forced to own cars.
2. Relevance of MRT3 to KV residence.
3. Elevated highway and its effect to cities
4. Why people don't ride PT (more detail).
5. Film your own experience dealing with traffic and the weakness of our PT.
6. Film some citizens lashed out their stress of traffic.
7. Urban planning in Malaysia.
8. Discussion of government policies on private vehicles and PT.
9. How automotive industries make traffic worse.
10. Car culture in Malaysia, how chronic it is.
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Bagus ada urban planning channel dari Malaysia, selama ni byk tengok luar negara punya je. Harap makin banyak video menyusul.
From my worst experience, the issue is the bus system particularly the infrequent trip and poor poor pedestrian walkway. Though if this improving in the near future (hopefully), i live outside of the city think it is still difficult to move around on foot or bicycle because housing area are sprawling farther from city center and separated from commercial area that connected by motorway. This is due to poor town planning i believe. Right now only KL under the spotlight for urban improvement hope other Malaysian cities like JB, SA, PJ, IPOH start improving as well.
I love that Cyberjaya City Centre is located nowhere near Cyberjaya city centre. It also has no parking, which means that there's no reason for anyone to use the station over Cyberjaya Utara, which is even more further out and unwalkable. in the end, the only places those stations service is Skypark (a failed mall which only serves as an apartment) and Lim Kok Wing (a uni that doesnt even have accreditation anymore)
i waited years for it to be built, and i still have to get in my car to get to it in the end. but i guess it could be worse, considering we could have also had the MEX 2 run straight thru the city....
i still dont get it why the cyberjaya city centre got no park and ride. it literally the main reason sometimes the roads to the mrt got blocked by the car that parks on the roadside.
@@m.muhymin5793 if you look at satellite, it seems like there's space for a car park right next to the place behind that weird fence. but pshh, thatd be useful and convenient, so why bother right.
We need more content like this in Malaysia. Keep up the good work, dude!
I am native KLite working in Singapore. My KL home is in one of the neighbourhoods that are poorly served by rail transit.
Once, I was hosting my Singaporean colleague at my home. My mom offered to drop us off at the "nearest" station (15-20 mins driving time away according to Google Maps) that was served by the same line as where we were going. The station was on the side of a major road with no obvious place for dropping off. My Singaporean colleague was smirking while I was embarrassed. My mom ended up drove us to our destination.
I love that this is finally put into discussion. It is rare to see a video analysising the urban planning in malaysia. Keep up the good work!
Gov need to study urban plannning and demands on how to tackle riders using MRT...some place not many riders to use it...and i agreed with the view ..need good studying on urban planning if new MRT line to build in future plan
Too late for KL
blame on resident of housing area..why do you think station far from home? those people la.. reason traffic jam la, crime la, people park at their home la bla bla bla
So nice to see someone talking about this! I've lived in KL for 2+ years and love the city, but walking around or getting somewhere is hard. I had to call grab several time because I simply could not cross a road or hit a dead end. Can't imagine what people who lived here all their lives and got their block cut off by a highway or huge gated condo feel.
It seems like there is general lack of concern about some citizens, unfortunately - more highways, more gated communities, more high rises built right in front of someone's windows blocking the view with 8 levels of parking. Hope this changes
It would be great to add a new train line starting from Klang (Johan Setia), passing through Putra Heights to connect with the LRT Kelana Jaya Line and Sri Petaling Line. The line could then extend to Bandar Puchong Utama, continue through Cyberjaya (where it would be highly beneficial for students), connect with the MRT Putrajaya Line at Putrajaya Sentral, and stop at IOI City Mall, Hospital Serdang, UNITEN, and Bandar Baru Bangi. Finally, it could connect with the Kajang Line, with the last station located in Semenyih.
So happy to see a video format of this discussion apart from twitter! Thank you and keep it up!
I didn't do my research well enough last time and booked an accomodation very close to a station one the map. Unfortunately it was actually inaccessible. To get there I would have needed like 1 hour walking even though its was actually close. I had to use taxis for the entire stay and paid a ton for that. I just arrived in KL for the second time and this time I did my research with that street view function to really simulate me walking to the station and check if there are any obstacles and if there are ways to cross streets.
I’m fortunate that my home and workplace is convenient to use public transportation
I’m only a 8-minute walk from home to the bus stop, and my workplace is only a 3-minute walk from the bus stop. And I don’t need to switch lines, the Putrajaya MRT line is a mostly comfortable ride. I haven’t driven to work for over a year already.
yeah some people got fortunate on this part
So wats the purpose of ur comment?
@@l_ifeefi_l1998 An expression of gratitude after having spent 2+ hours per day for far too many years for my work commute
@@l_ifeefi_l1998whats wrong with someone sharing their own experience on the subject? tf
Great video, never expected such a detailed video covering Malaysia haha keep it up
Great video bro, pls make more videos like this, thanks to your video, now I know that the Philippines and Malaysia face the same problems in the public transportation sector
As someone born and raised in KL who studied in London, I am always in awe at how much more convenient London's public transport is. Coming back home always makes me wish for better public transport.
My biggest gripe is Malaysia's lack of real proper urban planning - everything is an afterthought, then tries to build highways to "solve" traffic issues, which I know will never truly solve them because most of those urban highways just redistributes traffic elsewhere. Then the lack of proper, safe and wide walkways frustrates me the most. Even if there are any walkways, they are inconsistent, illogical, and are wide enough just for one person to walk by. Pedestrians are often an afterthought.
Then speaking of poorly situated stations at 3:40, even the yet-to-be-operational LRT3 has stations between the Subang Jaya NKVE toll and Damansara that boggles me (map at 9:48). Terribly placed along the highway with poor first-last mile access and does not cover more densely populated areas.
I'm glad you made this video. This is a big step towards improving transportation in the country.
Thank you for showing the Cyberjaya City Centre station. It's funny that they name it "City Centre" when it's actually in the middle of jungle. 🤣. Like nobody even live there, why on earth would you want to build a station there. And then there is the Cyberjaya South station, also in the middle of nowhere. Then there is the Putrajaya Sentral line, also in the middle of nowhere with zero apartment or residential area within walkable distance. What are these people doing with our money? The problem is Malaysians do not complain enough. I once wrote to Cyberview via email, the company that manages Cyberjaya town planning. I angrily attacked them for the ridiculous location of the 2 train station. Surprisingly they did respond to my email. However they gave me such a laughable answer. More and more people should do this. If thousands of us make a big fuss about it, they will be scared.
This is informative, comprehensive, and constructive. Thank you for your works. I hope your suggestions will be heard and implemented.
great video !!! i hope our transport minister see this video
Our presents MoT is a stupid person and just talk only, and he is cooperation with present stupid PM to cancel MRT3 Project.
@bungaraya19082013 not cancel right, just delayed
@bungaraya19082013haven't cancelled. The plan isn't easy because of unhappy residents at some places
Glad that you pointed out the fundamental problem of Malaysia urban planning. Not only for public transport but effective waste management is also dependent on better urban planning and traffic flow
Just imagine building high rise and high residential with only bus line. How can KPKT (Ministry of Housing and Local Governance) approve such project
If bus line is the only option it should be low density housing. High density housing should be access to rail line.
The MRT line 1 and 2 is designed for commercial and offices. The LRT Kelana Jaya and Petaling line is designed to for Commonwealth 1998 games. KTM Kommuter line is just a re-design from cargo to passager transport. Monorail Line is design for tourism. ERL line was design to connect city center and airport. None of this line is actually design for transporting residential and workforces to their workplace driving the economy.
Take Puchong case. Filled with many residential zones, high and low densities and center of Klang Valley. The lifeline is LDP road. The desires of the locals is to commute from Seri Kembangan or Putrajaya area to Kepong for work/leisure at malls. The only way is by bus can take up 1 hour with 40 minutes waiting time or LRT/MRT and buses for 3 hours with 5 to 40 minutes waiting time at different interchange. If use own car, a person can be at destination at 35 to 45 minutes without waiting time
The time value money of own car weights more than public transport
Last mile connectivity is the biggest issue. People normalise having to do things like walking on the road and crossing busy highway sections without traffic lights but that isn't normal for a global city.
WIth the amount of engagement on this video, it is quite obvious that many people realise this and feel strongly about it. I encourage everyone to write to their local council (e.g. DBKL, MBPJ) or state rep (their sites have a form or email address) when you see infrastructure that makes no sense e.g. missing footpaths, traffic lights without pedestrian crossings, lack of maintenance on shade trees leading to collapse or removal, areas with low connectivity or areas with insufficient parking spaces etc.
Most members are very proactive as they seek to be re-elected so if enough of the same issue is raised the higher the chance these things get done.
some people buy car just to go to the MRT because their resident just that far away from the stations. Paying car installment and parking fee so you can ride MRT is very mind-blowing for me. I can see the MRT station just from my house but to go there i need to cross a very busy road with fast car and no pedestrian walk.
blame Malaysian..they the one who rejected station near housing area
Is it your first video? Congrats, well done! I would gladly watch more KL content, especially if it shows the city.
Fantastic video mate. Really in depth, and well executed. We need more like it. Hopefully this video will rearch someone who can make the difference.
keep up the good work rene! Like your analytic way of the topic.
Great video! For next video please suggest future MRT and LRT lines and where it could possible cover. Areas like Cyberjaya that goes into the city and IOI CITY with Serdang Hospital and Uniten really requires a train line to ease the people.
I used to live 25km away from office and using public transportation 100% take 2 hours to reach. Now that I live 100km away and somehow it still take the same amount of commute time, make that make sense.
It’s unfortunate that provided feeder bus to nearby station still take hefty amount of travel time due to stuck in traffic and the amont of time wasting is frustrating.
Letsgooo i hope this channel gets big
Also looking forward to the inevitable kl monorail video
Thanks, everyone, for the great feedback! I never expected so much interest in a video like this!
Public transport involves every one of us and we all can together agree that we hate getting stuck in jams for hours each day. Having accessable public transport is in everyone's interest and you did a great job in addressing the main problems we are facing
Please see it as constructive feedback: the narrating voice could be better. Maybe it is the microphone, it also seems a bit monotonic. Anyway, great content.
I'm glad a Malaysian is making these types of videos. The closest is Teh Siew Dai, but he's way down in Singapore. Instant subscribe, bro!
Western European accent I guess
honestly bus lane enforcement will be an easy way to increase reveneues in the short term lmao, but they really need to add physical seperation from the normal lanes to prevent drivers just using it when the cops arent there
I loved going through the comments! Anyway I feel that the mindset needs to change too for some. I come from a family that hardly uses public transport. There is just that euphoric feel to always drive your own car at all times no matter what. I am thankful that I never had that !
Great video that really brings insight and also presents concepts that could be integrated rather than just pointing things out. The car-centricness of Malaysia right now could almost be up to par with the usa which is honestly horrible, the amount of highways being built despite them not being needed is not only wasting money that could be better spent on more accessible upgrades to existing stations and allocate more towards maintenance of the trainsets and tracks because how did the kajang line have so many trainsets out of commission depsite them being i think not even a decade old? And another big issue of kl is the urban sprawl, there is way too many low density housing outside the kl area, nilai as an example, a ton of low density housing on the side of the highway which makes the city even more car-centric, while trains like the ktm commuter would and could help with slightly mitigating this massive traffic issue, from what ive seen, the train stations themselves are difficult to get to, not only that but the frequency is not high thats for sure, alongside the fact that the ktm commuter cant really carry as many people for the frequency, it makes the problem even worse. 120b rm on mrt wasted? To an extent yes, to another extent no, if accesibility upgrades and better station placements rather than on the side of the highways were done, ridership would for sure be a lot higher than it is now, but another problem is LRT, they dont have high capacity which doesnt help as rush hour as is on the lrt is pretty full with 2023 sering 102% coach capacity per coach in kj line, now its 98% or 96% because frequency was cut down to 1.9 minutes or so. So to say that if the mrt really did reach the estimated ridership, goodluck for the lrt in rush hour. Anyways thats my stupid rant done, very nice high quality video, keep it up👍
Your comments on KJL being busy are interesting. It is still below its 2019 peak ridership. This is why data is so important.
I suspect, like KGL, it needs more trains, so the line is unlikely to be at capacity.
@@oldcentral considéring thé kajang Line in 5 yéars some are alréady out of commission and KLIA aérotrains getting major breakdowns béforé it was suspended, baséd on these maintenance issue? its possible kj Line is under thé same issue bécause some of thé trains they use are a bit more older, however I dont réally think kj Line is as busy as they Say, its only busy in some stations, one thing is for sure though, its litérally a Ghost train in thé area outside of KL, I uséd to go to putra heights for the lrt kj Line as a joyrider and me and m'y parents were thé only ones in thé train most of thé time until around usj so i doubt thé kj Line is as busy as they Say for rush hour excépt for somé handful of station I know are Abdullah hukum, bangsar, Kerinchi and KL sentral but yeah I agréé, wé need more actual data to réally undérstand why is thé ridership number lower
I live and work in Shah Alam. My workplace is just 3km away from my apartment. For the past 2 years, I had to force myself to use the free Smart Selangor bus because I felt it wasn't necessary for me to get a car yet. But sadly, these buses are very poor in service. The drivers are rude. Sometimes they purposely speed up the bus to avoid stopping at bus stops. It could have just been a 10 minutes ride to work but I had to wait 40 minutes for the bus. Sometimes, these drivers use a shortcut and skip the usual route. Their reason? Not many passengers use the bus stop, the road here is too narrow for the bus, blah blah. Now, I had no choice but to dig up my savings for a car.
The time it takes for me to walk from my house to SS18 LRT station (2.2 km) is shorter than the time it takes for me to wait for the shuttle bus to ferry me to said station.
I visited Japan recently, and the infrastructure was wayyy more pedestrian friendly than Malaysia. Good coverage, excellent service, punctuality, etc.
I think all I can do right now is just pray that relevant authorities step up their game...
Welp I found another fav youtuber, keep it up my guy.
We got brilliant MPs who opposed everything about public transport. How nice.
Ngl, i love your deep voice. It’s very soothing.
Finally a sensible analysis. Access to the stations is the big problem, you will still stuck in traffic with extra cost to get to the stations
we need our ministry to watch this video.
In my opinion, there are several things that the government needs to work on. First is ERP gantry to discourage people from using cars, second is ensure that all the MRT stations have a few feeder buses that pick-up passengers from surrounding neighborhoods and finally ensure that there are lots of walkways and bridges that are linked to MRT stations.
Well done and well researched
I hope your video reaches the policy maker who sitting in the office planning the infrastructure, I used to take mrt transit to lrt pre covid, now I drives to office due to flexible working hour 😅😅
Very well said. Incredible video.
this is such a refreshing video. great job!
13:36 Yes I was shocked to know they are offering discounts for traffic offences fines. What are they encouraging?
The government needed the money. If they did not offer discount for offenses, I think many people would still have unpaid fines.
The court system can't handle to volume to haul everybody to court
@@hasnanhashim4386 hence reduce the opportunities for such offences to be made = reduce car popn, strict traffic summons etc
@hasnanhashim4386 hence reduce the opportunities for such offences to be made. ie reduce car popn, strict traffic summons
@@FrostWing-k5u enforcement issue
Really informative! Nice one!
you inspire me to study urban planning course
Thank you for the video
i live in a neighborhood that has MRT station (about 1KM from my place, walkable). My working place is also very near to MRT station (300m). First and last mile is really a big issue especially during the rainy days and hot summer season. I tried using electric scooter (foldable, xiaomi brand) to counter this issue. However, during peak hour it is almost impossible to bring my scooter inside the MRT wagon. Finally, after a month of trying to live with public transport, I give up and ride a bike instead.
Excellent assessment!
JB also same the traffic here is getting worse 😢, bad roads, street lights not functioning, lack of infrastructure, lack of pedestrian and cycling paths especially elderly, inefficient drainage system, reckless drivers and inefficient public transportation. Bad urban planning though.
It's getting worse because they're basing this city on the same problem kl have
Almost everywhere in Malaysia is like this. Even my ''town'' is starting to traffic jam almost everyday with influx of new people, cars and new residential apartment buildings.
I blame Tun Mahathir, during his golden days as PM, he's too focus and empowering automobile sector (local cars obviously) until the cars overtake the roads and have to extend and extend the freaking roads to be freaking highways.
Same! My mum was a civil servant, and told me that there were sustainable urban planning which includes public transportation projects way back in the 80's, but nothing became of it. I suspected those projects were scrapped once Mahathir got a firm grasp on power, and shifted focus to Proton instead.
@@thismissivemisfit and what happened? proton is still a mediocre car company.
@@thismissivemisfit same with ECRL, after PH winning the pru, they scraped ecrl and downgrade freaking LRT3 SHAH ALAM line. Politicians and poor politics destroy everything.
Agreed. The national car project also forces Malaysians to buy lower quality local cars. All that money spent should have been focused on promoting public transport.
He has step down for years, stop blaming. We had so many pm after Dr. M, but did any of them really put effort to solve traffic and public transport issue, unfortunately, none.
thanks, very insightful!
the fact that u need a car or motor to use the mrt or lrt is so fucking stupid. feeder busses are useless. walkability is non existence. THANK YOUUUU for this video and speaking my mind out. hoping for more to come. SUBSCRIBED!!
Another issue is accessibility at transit stations. For example, none of the KL Monorail stations have operational elevators. Many stations also only have upwards escalators, if any at all.
The feeder buses are never on time and are frequently out of service leaving wait time going from 30 mins to 1 hour. I would walk the last mile, but our urban nightmare makes it hard to walk from the station back home, and the rain makes it even harder. The gated community is indeed a real struggle, I have a station near my workplace separated by a steel bridge and the condo developer next to it tried to remove it.
I would agree with most of the points stated in the video, except for maybe some points like law-enforcement. Law enforcement can only do so much.
KL as a metropolitan have lives through multiple political environments, but any politicians trying to woo KL voters will definitely point out issue of transport within the city. Then there lies corruption, or actually a stronger case of narrow-mindedness of developers.
Don't simply blame the government of incompetence. The issue is, like highlighted in the video, a developer building the most housing units possible within their budget and then let the public works sort out the accessibility issue to their property.
Those big gated community apartments? Tell them to build a pedestrian bypass (maybe a tunnel, maybe a bridge). Many developers think this kind of addition to their whole real-estate development would only diminish their profit when in-fact, those with great pedestrian access would actually raise their real-estate value due to being super convenient to those with no driving license such as new foreigners and young workers who don't have transports.
The SEVERE LACK of ease of access to public transportation facilities in general indeed makes these ridership low. The only reason why MRT ridership is not zero is cost, driving license ownership and traffic. Sometimes however, the location of some of the station might have been forced by circumstances, but even then such station had never include pedestrian access which I would say, the biggest problem.
Solution? The government has to appoint urban planning boards, put into law a more practical regulations for urban developers and enforce it.
In short, SAFE WALKABLE PATHS TO MRT.
A well thought out and researched video .
In my opinion, Malaysia will not grow without pedestrian first infrastructure.
If Malaysia wants to be the next Asian Tiger , it will need to fix this problem nationwide or it’s all just a pipe dream.
In my opinion
its good that you pointed out how taking public transportation is often time many multiples of the time it would take to get there by driving. Its usually just not worth it.
planning issue aside, the biggest hurdle in the region is just education.
folks just don't have the mindset to care. This won't change anytime soon. Car will still be king for the next hundred years.
It could be a reality though, for me, more people are realizing the car-centrism of Malaysia is getting out of hand
Yes every time I pass by these mrt/ lrt stations I will have the same feeling..
Most of the mrt / lrt stations are building in places very inaccessible. By right, all these stations can bring in a lot more economic value in addition to just improving traffics. Look at all stations in Japan and hk. It is always build next to shops / residences. Ours are as the video mentioned, ridiculously inaccessible. It just felt like they build for the purpose of building only.
I agree this is a huge opportunity for malaysia if they want to improve the quality of life for their people.
The TTDI Resident Association needs to take responsibility for protesting against and getting the pedestrian bridge to Stesen Bandar Utama CANCELLED.
We should get more and better non-car connections to the stations
adoi la korang boomers ni
You should send this to Anthony Loke.
imo. Issue is how do you want to go from the MRT station to your destination? My house is only 1.3 km away from the nearest MRT. There are no walkable paths from MRT to my house than won't put you at risk off some car hitting me. Even my office to the nearest is only 1.1km. But there ain't no way I am walking in a busy road where there is no pedestrian walking.
There's a lot of people graduated with Town and Regional Planning Degree from local University every year, but it is a strange mystery why they don't end up planning our cities?
The issue is if the government can bear the higher cost then yes we can build the line with better alignment and yes this line was for complementing the hsr project. Plus had the kj line paid link tunnel was build in ag park then the attraction would be higher with more high frequent and large coverage for feeder bus. Ridership growth issue will be more contained than ever.
Removing petrol subsidy would hurt people where public transportation simply doesn't exist no where in the country except for some places in klang valley have metro lines
Talk to your local rep on how the access can be improved. Lucky my home is around 500m to the LRT3 station with connection to BU MRT. Looking forward to ditch the car and commute to my workplace.
Petition to make this man the next transport minister
I live in a place close to 4 LRT & MRT stations: LRT Maluri, LRT Pandan Jaya, MRT Maluri & MRT Cochrane
but all of them have to walk 30 minutes to reach
Maybe government just need to start redesign KL, force acquisition those building that’s block the walkability. rethink if they wanted the level of support to local vehicle brand
Car is a need for any family. It is beyond denying. There has to be a link from the airport to the city hub. In this regard, KL Sentral speaks well. Next from the port to the city hub, we have to bank on KTM. KTM is currently going through a double tracking development phase which prompts its service being slow or delayed. It cannot be compared to the ERL which is the airport link to KL Sentral. Therefore the best port solution would be KTM which needs to buck up in its services. Its link is also to KL Sentral. The centralised link to KL Sentral which encompasses the airport link, the port link, the inter state link, inter city link, the urban link vide LRT, Monorail and MRT benefits the surrounding hub of Brickfields, Bangsar and Taman Seputeh. Such a connectivity will not be in any other belt of the Klang Valley. Therefore, there has to be a connectivity belt between KL Sentral and other belts within the Klang Valley. The development of the LRT and MRT does not really solve the issue. The feeder service should complement the links, which currently not being the case because of the traffic density. Therefore, the only getaway within the city hub is a private vehicle.
Malaysia got house break ins etc we need the police station to be nearby and accesable to the members of the public too
great video. keep it up
as a KLites and who had to drive to work due to poor public transport in this city, I thanked you for this video. MRT kuchai is just that too poor planed, in Malay we say, melepaskan batuk ditangga. This shit also affects old KTM station in the whole country, hard to access for public.
Government needs to spend a lot of budgets in pedestrian infrastructure instead of bicycle lane that nobody use. JKR also need to update new regulation for road that each road needs to build sidewalk.
I used to be an urban planning consultant in PJ, advocating for public transport and walkability is a fate worse than herding cats, upper management is too drunk on their own kool-aid of car worship.
From my personal experience, the voices/advise of technocrats aren’t taken into account (unless you’re a traffic engineer, no hate tho), the policymakers are too focused on the next election cycle, the private sector is too blindsided by short-term gains and the next contract than to properly integrate their projects with the surrounding neighbourhood/urban systems, and the public oh so inclined towards buying landed single family housing that heavily relies on private vehicles coz that’s what’s all they know.
@@lordgarysoh most places with good public transport also have a transport ministry that is mostly independent from ordinary electoral processes.
1.They sell 8 million vehicles per year to Malaysians
2.Cars and motorcycles are so cheap and you can have a 9 years loan with RM300/month payment
3.Road tax and tolls are the cheapest in asia
4.They keep building roads and highways everywhere
5.The MRT, LRT, komuter stations are mostly located in sparsely populated locations like seputeh, salak selatan, sungai buloh. Everytime reaching seputeh, nobody exit or enter.
6.Petrol is among the cheapest in the universe
7.Malaysians are overweight and walking 1 km to stations will kill them instantly
8.Climate here are so freaking hot and humid, it's summer 365 days a year
9.MRT busses are running following drivers' moods, whims and fancy.
8. You can get around that with adequate shade and proper pedestrian infrastructure.
I can take the bus to the nearby MRT station that will take 1 hour just to reach the station OR I can drive to the office that takes only 1 hour
This is a problem that the public transportation in Malaysia can't solve yet.
I don't want to drive. I hate driving to work. But I hate wasting my time on commute more than I hate driving. It sucks for us common people.
Awesome. There are a lot of similar problems in some Indian metros too (I'm looking at you Jaipur metro)
Agree! I used to commute from KL to Sunway Geo office previously. Took about 2 hours journey to office and another 2 hours went back home. Plus, there is no walkway to walk to the train station and need to walk on the big highway which is unsafe. Recently I have move to scooter ride and much more save time as it only took 20 minutes journey. Seriously the public transportation planning within Klang Valley area are worst.
Besides building the LRT/MRT then Pasarana Rapid KL should extend the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) further to connect those residential areas to served as last mile connection to the nearest MRT/LRT station based on their locality. Plus the buses should be ongoing and not waiting for buses to fill up completely then only move. Just follow the Singapore bus example.
Too much landed house in KL is the main reason for inefficient MRT!
Can you imagine a MRT in Great LA where most people live in landed house?
City like Singapore,HK, Taipei, Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, Beijing, London , Manhattan were living in multi-storey apartments!
That makes a huge difference (10-20times) in number of residents per square kilometre in KL, LA versus the remaining cities mentioned above!
Society need to level up their mentality as well, as a rider, aku pun menyampah tengok motor "hon" kereta signal nak switch lane. lane splitting is not our right/priority. btw about the problems you stated, its not about money, the government CAN do it, they just dont want to. selagi mana theres no "casualities" theyre not gonna change it.
When making a Leaflet project, is line alignment and station coordinates readily available?
Hi, thanks for watching. I personally used a tool called JOSM to download a GeoJSON file from Putrajaya's line relation from OpenStreetMap. The GeoJSON for all stations comes from here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:MRT_Sungai_Buloh-Putrajaya_Line_mapframe
another main reason to me personally, people racing to buy landed house outside of KL. making it pretty impossible for any public transport to be their main transportation going into KL. hopefully our line'll be as big as in Japan.
Great vid sir
Our office and house still far from the LRT/MRT station.. Etc, do Selayang area got LRT, do Greenwood got LRT/MRT.. do Sri Hartamas got LRT/MRT.. the coverage not overall… That why people still need to use car… Bus service not convinience since the traffic itself already jamn…
yes they use car and park at lrt/mrt station. so incovenience. they sould implement more rapid buses line & DRT van. drt van is so conveniece because it can go inside very tight residential streets unlike buses
Thanks for this cool video 😁, all that’s left to do is advertise it
Malaysia always build away from high-traffic areas and place them in no man's land. When they put it near a neighborhood like Taman Naga Emas, they don't redevelop the run-down public apartments.
One more thing is If we have nice pedestrians walkway, those space will occupy by hawker, permanent block the walk way with their stall block even they not in business.
Just gonna say this is a very good study and with very constructive suggestion. I will share from my social but my influence is small.
Collab with an influencer or youtuber if can to raise more awareness.
please visit jakarta and be happy to be in kl ... KL needs improvement but Jakarta NEEEEEEEDSSSSS improveeeeement.
We should compare KL to much better cities, not much worse.
@ absolutely. I was projecting my frustration about Jakarta through my comment.
keep up the good work 👏