Shocked over calls for fewer buses
Friday April 11, 2008
Shocked over calls for fewer buses
IT was indeed shocking to read in The Star (April 
calls by Transit Link and KGN-Hin Bus for the state government to reduce the number of Rapid Penang buses plying Penang streets!
Are they not aware that the people of Penang actually want an increase in frequency of buses, which requires more buses to be on the road?
As a bus user myself, I would like to see MORE buses on the road - not fewer. Several routes currently have buses arriving every 45 minutes and even every 90 minutes.
The ‘new kid on the block’ Rapid Penang has won over many loyal customers despite the monopoly the other bus operators have enjo-yed for a long time.
Bus operators thus have to accept that passengers today demand good, clean and fast service.
State Local Goverment, Traffic Management and Environment Committee Chairman Chow Kon Yeow is doing the right thing in giving the bus operators an ultimatum to change their ways and for taking to task CVLB for failing to take action despite so many complaints by the public.
The public’s call to take these operators off the roads have been loud and clear.
Besides, The Star has clearly repor-ted drivers and bosses of these bus operators admitting that the ‘pajak’ system is very much alive in various forms.
JOACHIM F. XAVIER,
Penang.
Rapid Penang is the best for Penang now. They are supposed to bring in additional new buses, this will further improve their service.
Comment by kalama — Saturday, 19-04-2008 @ 02: 34.31
The common Rakyat depends on RapidPg… the middle-income, lower-middle… and it cuts through all races… The comfort and freshness RapidPg brings gives comnfidence and joy especially to the older folk to move around in “their wheels”.
Comment by boobear — Saturday, 19-04-2008 @ 05: 40.42