Just came back from KL after a long weekend trip.
I wonder what makes me go up there time after time. Some observations about the transport system:
1. The gridlock peak hour jams in KL are no laughing matter. My KL-ite friend who was driving actually reads in the jams. Since the cars don't move anyway. Take a wrong turn and add one-hour to your travel time.
2. Roads are haphazard, disorganised and basically he who has bigger gonads / car or lower fear of death gets the right of way. Hey, even KL-ites get lost there. 'Nuff said.
3. Traffic lights are for suggestion only. Red? You may still cross if you want / dare.
4. I think the traffic cops actually make the jams worse cos they can't direct traffic for nuts. I give them kudos for having the b*lls to stand in the middle of a busy intersection traversed by homicidal maniacs on mopeds and wiras.
5. I prayed for my life when the monorail tilted at least 20 degrees.
6. You have to walk a 100M to get from one monorail line to another - outside the station in the rain.
7. The automated machines that dispense tickets only except exact change, and you can only pay with one note. That would explain why everyone buys the tickets from the control station, resulting in a long line.
8. After you get the ticket, you'd expect to walk through a gantry. But the gantry's broken and they employ a guy to sit there instead.
9. The 2 clocks on the 2 platforms, placed side by side, are not synchonised. That kinda defeats the purpose of having clocks right? Just confuses people.
10. The train arrives, but its only 2 carriages, when the platform can accomodate 10. Hence we are packed like sardines (well, actually, more like mashed up tuna in a can).
I wonder what makes me go up there time after time. Some observations about the transport system:
1. The gridlock peak hour jams in KL are no laughing matter. My KL-ite friend who was driving actually reads in the jams. Since the cars don't move anyway. Take a wrong turn and add one-hour to your travel time.
2. Roads are haphazard, disorganised and basically he who has bigger gonads / car or lower fear of death gets the right of way. Hey, even KL-ites get lost there. 'Nuff said.
3. Traffic lights are for suggestion only. Red? You may still cross if you want / dare.
4. I think the traffic cops actually make the jams worse cos they can't direct traffic for nuts. I give them kudos for having the b*lls to stand in the middle of a busy intersection traversed by homicidal maniacs on mopeds and wiras.
5. I prayed for my life when the monorail tilted at least 20 degrees.
6. You have to walk a 100M to get from one monorail line to another - outside the station in the rain.
7. The automated machines that dispense tickets only except exact change, and you can only pay with one note. That would explain why everyone buys the tickets from the control station, resulting in a long line.
8. After you get the ticket, you'd expect to walk through a gantry. But the gantry's broken and they employ a guy to sit there instead.
9. The 2 clocks on the 2 platforms, placed side by side, are not synchonised. That kinda defeats the purpose of having clocks right? Just confuses people.
10. The train arrives, but its only 2 carriages, when the platform can accomodate 10. Hence we are packed like sardines (well, actually, more like mashed up tuna in a can).
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