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❤its time to do connectivity planning for Klang Valley rather than impose more idiot highways by the town planner😮😮

they expect the car to ride the MRT not people, thats why its along the highway. They think that highways are where people want to go. The problem is politicians just want to show rather than help. Malaysians vote on who speaks the best rather than who acts the best.

It’s just a pipe dream, Malaysian politician couldn’t care a hood for commoners, any plot of land will be turned into high density condo/apartment. Congestion will only worsen

Malaysians will never walk or cycle in this weather so we shouldn't be looking at models in Europe. We need to think out of the box

I live and work in Shah Alam. My workplace is just 3km away from my apartment. For the past 2 years, I had to force myself to use the free Smart Selangor bus because I felt it wasn't necessary for me to get a car yet. But sadly, these buses are very poor in service. The drivers are rude. Sometimes they purposely speed up the bus to avoid stopping at bus stops. It could have just been a 10 minutes ride to work but I had to wait 40 minutes for the bus. Sometimes, these drivers use a shortcut and skip the usual route. Their reason? Not many passengers use the bus stop, the road here is too narrow for the bus, blah blah. Now, I had no choice but to dig up my savings for a car.

Scrap the old car.

Kl is not a walkable city, what's the point of having mrt stations?

Excellent assessment!

Glad that you pointed out the fundamental problem of Malaysia urban planning. Not only for public transport but effective waste management is also dependent on better urban planning and traffic flow Just imagine building high rise and high residential with only bus line. How can KPKT (Ministry of Housing and Local Governance) approve such project If bus line is the only option it should be low density housing. High density housing should be access to rail line. The MRT line 1 and 2 is designed for commercial and offices. The LRT Kelana Jaya and Petaling line is designed to for Commonwealth 1998 games. KTM Kommuter line is just a re-design from cargo to passager transport. Monorail Line is design for tourism. ERL line was design to connect city center and airport. None of this line is actually design for transporting residential and workforces to their workplace driving the economy. Take Puchong case. Filled with many residential zones, high and low densities and center of Klang Valley. The lifeline is LDP road. The desires of the locals is to commute from Seri Kembangan or Putrajaya area to Kepong for work/leisure at malls. The only way is by bus can take up 1 hour with 40 minutes waiting time or LRT/MRT and buses for 3 hours with 5 to 40 minutes waiting time at different interchange. If use own car, a person can be at destination at 35 to 45 minutes without waiting time The time value money of own car weights more than public transport

It won't be long before KL sinks due to overwhelming weight of transport infrastructure 5:02 true that

Ban gated communities

Holyshit this makes US cities look good😂😂😂😂😂 yikes

Via bike 10 minutes Via car 30 minutes Via train 2 hrs..why? Have to change 3 trains.

The buttons never work. The saddest thing is that we have to cross the crossing while red light because it took tooooooo long. Love the works that you did from your website, to your detailed research and video essays! Would love to collab with you someday!

I didn't do my research well enough last time and booked an accomodation very close to a station one the map. Unfortunately it was actually inaccessible. To get there I would have needed like 1 hour walking even though its was actually close. I had to use taxis for the entire stay and paid a ton for that. I just arrived in KL for the second time and this time I did my research with that street view function to really simulate me walking to the station and check if there are any obstacles and if there are ways to cross streets.

I hope your video reaches the policy maker who sitting in the office planning the infrastructure, I used to take mrt transit to lrt pre covid, now I drives to office due to flexible working hour 😅😅

I live in a place close to 4 LRT & MRT stations: LRT Maluri, LRT Pandan Jaya, MRT Maluri & MRT Cochrane but all of them have to walk 30 minutes to reach

Hello. Australian here. Living in KL for 12 years. I’m a designer and worked on many projects both interior and landscape as well as urban developments. My theory is it’s a social status issue. There is an old stubborn sentiment and perception that public transport is for lower classes and cars for middle and upper classes. Many people with money would rather die then be seen using public transportation with the plebs. Even though they are not plebs on the train, but Malaysians are utterly obsessed with projecting status and wealth over all else due to insecurity. Unless you can shift this mindset. Forget it. You can add all the train station locations you want, and you can urban plan all the ‘connectivity’ to your hearts content … it’s still not going to make much difference. You must look beyond lower level issues such as city planning, corruption etc … they make development difficult sure, but this is not a development issue. Foreign workers use the trains, many people consider these people lower than them … sorry it’s just how it is. Middle income people tolerate and avoid it when possible. Upper income people would consider it a step down to even be in the same space as those people. The foreigners are also considered unsafe and risky. People who are perhaps overly protective of their children, especially their daughters, won’t risk it…. And if they did risk it , other parents would talk and look down at them for risking their children like that. In other cities that I know I can give example from experience. Melbourne and Tokyo. These two places both the rich and the poor use public transportation and have accepted the convenience of it without judgement of others. Malaysians judge. It’s all judgement and … perception. So now you know the issue, good luck trying to solve it. But the realm in which you need to study and meditate on is that of social engineering. I can think of a bunch of things you could design, and campaigns to assist in combating this perception but I’m not going to simply share them here. If someone wants to pay me for my ideas , then feel free to contact me. I know that the train lines are now attempting to activate some so called ‘dead’ stations , but again, it will only make the experience slightly better for those already taking public transport, it won’t solve the bigger issues pertaining to social perceptions.

Only talk about LRT and MRT.... Did there address the roads in all the Taman to be connected to one another, so that all drivers don't have to converge to the main road to go to their destinations.. Still not allow to turn left automatically when no coming vehicles. Widen and extend left lanes to release pressure from queuing up.. 😮😮😊😊😊😊😊😊

You should send this to Anthony Loke.

A well thought out and researched video . In my opinion, Malaysia will not grow without pedestrian first infrastructure. If Malaysia wants to be the next Asian Tiger , it will need to fix this problem nationwide or it’s all just a pipe dream. In my opinion

Yeah... just look at Singapore MRT

Malaysia always build away from high-traffic areas and place them in no man's land. When they put it near a neighborhood like Taman Naga Emas, they don't redevelop the run-down public apartments.

Besides building the LRT/MRT then Pasarana Rapid KL should extend the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) further to connect those residential areas to served as last mile connection to the nearest MRT/LRT station based on their locality. Plus the buses should be ongoing and not waiting for buses to fill up completely then only move. Just follow the Singapore bus example.

Too many high rise buildings and poor strategic MRT or LRT stations far from housing area to take the ride during working hours.

Yes, there is no such things as "better public transport system" when last miles planning is neglected. Unfortunately, the media is full of so called "expert" that keep repeating "better public transport" mantra than mentioning the last miles infrastructure, as it is safe populist call not to anger car centric stakeholders. In fact, Malaysia car centric mindset is so terrible that, I frequently see people drive or ride motorcycle to the sundries shop like 99marts just to buy a pack of bread, while most of the shop lots walkway is clogged by motorcycle and road widens for car park.

another main reason to me personally, people racing to buy landed house outside of KL. making it pretty impossible for any public transport to be their main transportation going into KL. hopefully our line'll be as big as in Japan.

Anti MRT asmr

Thank you for the video

So nice to see someone talking about this! I've lived in KL for 2+ years and love the city, but walking around or getting somewhere is hard. I had to call grab several time because I simply could not cross a road or hit a dead end. Can't imagine what people who lived here all their lives and got their block cut off by a highway or huge gated condo feel. It seems like there is general lack of concern about some citizens, unfortunately - more highways, more gated communities, more high rises built right in front of someone's windows blocking the view with 8 levels of parking. Hope this changes

Lack of planning in the early stage. That's it!

Malaysians on social media say their lives are better than Singapore because a family can “afford” 2-3 cars . Of course 70% sold are the cheap rebranded “national “ cars 😂

Agree! I used to commute from KL to Sunway Geo office previously. Took about 2 hours journey to office and another 2 hours went back home. Plus, there is no walkway to walk to the train station and need to walk on the big highway which is unsafe. Recently I have move to scooter ride and much more save time as it only took 20 minutes journey. Seriously the public transportation planning within Klang Valley area are worst.

The government must have better planning on public transportation, especially station location which under utilizes..better feeder buses like mini busses increase the frequencies..

One more thing is If we have nice pedestrians walkway, those space will occupy by hawker, permanent block the walk way with their stall block even they not in business.

yup, street walk-abilities for pedestrians is a big problem for Kl, your destination is just opposite the road yet often time you not able to walk there in 10sec , no bridge whatsoever. The govt only know keep extending the road, cut away the space suppose for pedestrians for car.

I do believe we don't have urban planners that take the time to even get to the ground to find out what residents face each day. Do these planners have a vision of the city from 10 thousand feet? I don't think so. Everything is a hodge podge of stuff put together by vested parties out to make money.

Stupid ass government built MRT stations around the upper M40 and T20 residential areas where the users mostly are B40. Even upper B40 rather drive to the workplace than use public transportation due to inefficient and always late feeder buses.

This is why I belived that we should priotise pedestrian friendly design first before we can build MRT/LRT.

KL doesn’t have a traffic problem, Penang has!

Developers make housing for foreign buyers. Most condos are not even occupied. Just look at the housing area dusk to night. Maybe only 30% occupied. Most are capital gain properties. How will MRT be full. If the housing near the MRT are empty?

You can change a city however much you want but with the malaysia boleh mindset and close to no strict rules and regulations or enforcement on such rules and regulations, you get shit like this.

its hard to convince malaysians to cycle to the stations because of the hot and humid weather. they dont wanna be all sweaty and smelly when they reach the work place.

this is such a refreshing video. great job!

Society need to level up their mentality as well, as a rider, aku pun menyampah tengok motor "hon" kereta signal nak switch lane. lane splitting is not our right/priority. btw about the problems you stated, its not about money, the government CAN do it, they just dont want to. selagi mana theres no "casualities" theyre not gonna change it.

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There's a lot of people graduated with Town and Regional Planning Degree from local University every year, but it is a strange mystery why they don't end up planning our cities?

I can take the bus to the nearby MRT station that will take 1 hour just to reach the station OR I can drive to the office that takes only 1 hour This is a problem that the public transportation in Malaysia can't solve yet. I don't want to drive. I hate driving to work. But I hate wasting my time on commute more than I hate driving. It sucks for us common people.

Can you make a review about their planning to make bukit bintang pedestrian only road.

voiceover is so romantic