KTM Komuter an insult to the progress of this country.

I take the KTM on a daily basis to commute to work in KL and back home. Most of the time it is a fairly reasonable trip. Once in a while trains run a little late, or the air conditioning won’t work, or the lights go out, or you here this loud BOOM!! from the control box (so much so that I think if there were ever a real explosion, Komuter passengers would be the last to react)

But the past 3 days - Monday 12 November - Tuesday 13 November and today 14 November - KTM Komuter has been HORRIFIC !!!!

 Monday and Tuesday saw me waiting in KL Sentral for more than an hour after work for a train. So much so that I only reached home (klang) after 9 pm !! and mind you I was waiting for a train from 6.30pm.

[I managed to read every single page of my National Geographic magazine]

This morning to my utter horror.. .  the officer at the Komuter station (who was very pleasant) told me that the train would not come for another hour !!

 ARGH !! &%$&  (ok frustration vented)

But jokes aside, while it is all good to make jokes about the system, I can’t imagine what would happen to me if I had to be at court by 9am, , and the trains did not come.

This country is wasting so much time, effort and money with the trains being delayed, spoilt and etc. It would be alot more simpler and efficient to simply restock the lot. Yes it would cost more to begin with, but as time passes the usage will make back the cost. It is undeniable that the frequency of usage of the KTM trains is only increasing. So KTM should make back most of its capital.

But, what I heard was that KTM and LRT Putra, are actually continuosly running at a loss !! How is this so ?? I really can’t fathom it, especially with the Putra line,the trains are always full, there are always people. So how can it run at a loss ?

Really, there must be a solution, it isn’t rocket science to get a pratical and efficient transportation system going, when so many other countries have done so.