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Compiling information from the Marcus Evan's Conference on Urban Transportation Planning & Integration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2012.Keep sending your comments on the MRT to SPAD using their comment form, or through email feedback@kvmrt.com.my or phone 1800 82 6868
Latest Express Bus Update
The most comprehensive third party information on express bus operators can be found here. For direct contact to terminals around Kuala Lumpur, please go through the contacts below:
North-bound
Hentian Duta Station, KL (accessible via RapidKL U83, B115, T618 & special shuttle bus)Puduraya has reopened as of 16 April 2011. TRANSIT is currently looking for contact information for Puduraya.
Southbound Intercity
Accessible by LRT/Komuter/ERL, Besraya and MRR2
Tel : +603 9057 5804 or +603 9057 5802
Email : customercare@tbsbts.com.my
Web: www.tbsbts.com.myWarning: The website has no information on bus schedule and route. Transnasional's ticketing can be found here
Bukit Jalil Temporary Terminal is now fully closed with the reopening of Puduraya.
Eastcoast-bound
Hentian Putra Station, KL (opposite PWTC, near Putra KTM Station)
Tel: 03 - 40438984, 03 - 40449072
Office Hours: 0730 - 2200 hoursPahang-bound
Pekeliling Bus Station, KL (opposite Titiwangsa LRT/Monorail)
Office Hours: NA (individual counters)No official information on bus routes and schedules (even on office hours contacts for terminal operators) are offerred for these terminals, so we hope readers will email us on any information that will be useful here.
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PAC to visit abandoned bus sites (Update#2)
TRANSIT took note of these two articles, announcing that the Public Accounts Committee of the Malaysian Parliament is going to inspect the two bus depots (Sg. Buaya and Serendah) where thousands of old Intrakota and CityLiner buses were left stored (left to rot, frankly) by Prasarana.
Abandoned IntraKota & CityLiner buses.
According to the articles, PAC Chair Azmi Khalid says that the PAC wants to inspect the buses, which were mentioned in the Auditor General’s 2008 Report, released last year.
TRANSIT Says:
The issue of the abandoned buses has been discussed at length in the media but this is the first time that the government has showed that they are interested in investigating. Even complaints by former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamed did not get the attention of the government – but the Auditor General’s 2008 report seems to have struck a chord among some parliamentarians.
As TRANSIT noted some years ago, Prasarana claims that the buses could not be salvaged and they had to be replaced with the buses sourced from China in 2005 & 2006.
However, the idea that Prasarana would let the buses go to rot so that someone could profiteer could not escape the mind of many Malaysians. It did not help that Dr. Mahathir and others made a connection between Malaysian bus builder Scomi Bus Sdn. Bhd. (a major manufacturer of buses in Malaysia) and then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
The question of whether the disposal of the buses was mismanaged or engineered for someone’s profit is probably never going to be (publicly) investigated by the MACC.
But the fact of the matter is, this is not Prasarana’s finest hour and TRANSIT certainly hopes that the current Board of Directors and Management is a lot wiser then before.
TRANSIT will follow up on this post if there is any further information.
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