[sustran] Re: Asia's 'only-poor-people-ride-transit', KL monorail & isolation

[Jain Alok]

Dear Karl,

I am not trying to come in defense of monorails but in your description
quoted below, I could just change name of the city and "monorail" to any
other public transport mode and it would still turn out to be accurate.
BRT, Metros or anything else is not immune to these problems so singling
out monorail on these grounds is unfair. These are "Management and
Planning" problems not "Mode" problems.

> As for the monorail being a fiasco, you are right this is probably a
harsh
> description and you surely know much better than me about the system.
But
> considering that:
> - it was 8 years under construction
> - a wheel fell off during a trial, striking a journalist, and
> - two years after opening they had achieved only half the projected
> passengers that they had forecast they would have 2 years earlier,
> it's at least arguable that this might qualify as a 'fiasco'. Not to
mention
> that the last monorail station stops short by 200m or so from the main
> transit terminal at KL Sentral as you mention.

Regards
Alok




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