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My household income classification ~ forget the B40:M40:T20. Let us see real numbers ; Less than RM3000 is poverty 3001 to 7500 is low income. 7501 to 15k is middle income > 15,001 is high income Based on households with two kids. Adjustments needed for family size & location

Strange that nobody is pressing the government to disclose the MRT3 economic BCR and financial FIRR. ​Committing RM50 billion on a hunch and a prayer.

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For too many people ,MRT and LRT is sacred They think it's sacrilegious to even do a value engineering and reduce the construction cost & save RM20b. Seriously , RM20b is a lot of money ~ can build lots of hospitals and schools

missing person @rahah_ghazali

Semua nak blame LGE cost cutting exercise.. @OldCentral

Peak-hour reality on the MRT: vestibule density running around 3 to 3.5 standees per square metre, pushing 4 near the stanchion pole. Shoulder-to-shoulder, minimal personal buffer, but not yet at structural crush load. I can't believe this is still below 6 pax/m2 crush ie can get in more pax

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Melaka fiscal position is not very reassuring.. Expenditures growing faster than income. PKR is also asking for updates on the Devex(projects). Instead of the normal ~ refreshing that both PKR and Bersama is drilling to facts & figures This is political maturity we want.

Simple things that will make a huge difference...

When will there be fully autonomous buses? It should be quite easy for buses in dedicated lanes or BRT.

Singapore's TEL vs Malaysia's MRT2: Something is seriously wrong with our rail planning. Both are relatively new MRT lines. Both use 4-car driverless trains. Yet look at how differently they were planned. Singapore Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) - Route length: 40.6 km - Trainsets: 91 - Trains per km: 2.24 - Ridership: Over 250,000/day (weekday, Oct 2024) Malaysia MRT2 (Putrajaya Line) - Route length: 57.7 km - Trainsets: 49 - Trains per km: 0.85 - Actual ridership: 153,000/day (2025 average) Singapore has 2.6 times as many trains per km despite building a much shorter line. But here is the really disturbing part. MRT2's original ridership forecast was 522,000 passengers per day! This figure was raised in Parliament in March 2019. Actual ridership in 2025 was only about 153,000 daily , just 29% of that forecast. Now ask some serious questions. 1. If MRT2 was expected to carry 522,000 passengers daily, why were only 49 trainsets procured? Was there a detailed peak-hour demand forecast? What frequency was required? Was a larger fleet supposed to be purchased later? 2. If 49 trainsets were considered sufficient, what assumptions supported the forecast of 522,000 passengers daily? Were the forecasts realistic, or were they inflated to justify the investment? 3. Why does Singapore's shorter TEL have 91 trainsets while Malaysia's longer MRT2 has just 49? Singapore planned a much greater fleet density, allowing more trains to operate at shorter intervals. Fleet density alone does not determine capacity, but surely such an enormous difference deserves an explanation. 4. Who was responsible for validating MRT2's original ridership forecast? Were independent reviews conducted? Were the forecast assumptions made public? Was anyone held accountable when actual demand fell so far below expectations? 5. What lessons have been learned before proceeding with MRT3? MRT3 involves another enormous investment. Are we again being shown optimistic future ridership forecasts without transparent evidence of the demand needed to justify the project? This is not simply about buying more trains. It is about the entire planning process ; demand forecasting, route selection, fleet procurement, service frequency and economic justification. A railway should be planned around realistic passenger demand, not built first and left waiting for passengers to appear. Before committing tens of billions more to MRT3, Malaysians deserve answers.

A great transit system needs four parts working as one: rail for dense trunk corridors, buses for local feeder grids, safe walking and cycling for first-and-last-mile access, and a single digital journey planner to tie it all together. Seamless transfers beat car dependency.

Don't think even the best MRTs in the world have such high load factors 😂😂😂

Gov refusal to publish economic feasibility studies for megaprojects treats public capital like private play money. ​If a project cannot withstand public scrutiny of its ridership density, BCR, and debt repayment schedule, it should not be built. True governance means putting all the assumptions on the table before committing billions that future generations must service without the corresponding economic returns Start with Penang LRT,JB e-Art,MRT3 and HSR

This really happened on Malaysian radio.I think the DJ was Patrick Teoh. Wonder how many remember this episode ?

The appraisal of MRT1 (Kajang Line) and MRT2 (Putrajaya Line) illustrates Bent Flyvbjerg’s "iron law of megaprojects": overestimated ridership paired with understated capital expenditure. ​When a project's cost doubles while actual ridership delivers less than half the projection, the real-world Economic Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) collapses to a fraction of the number sold to the cabinet.

How much did JhoLow made from ECRL project?

I love public transport. As long as it gets people off the roads

If you wish to know how bad it is on KJL ~ go to @threads Why has Gov allowed it to get from bad to worse?

KJL 1/ One train can accommodate 800 pax 2/ Currently ~15 trains per hour = 15x800 = 12,000 pax per hour 3/ Max design capacity is 40 trains per hour= 40x800=32,000 4/ Current capacity utilisation is 12,000/32,000 = 38% Let's build more urban rail instead of maximising what we already have.