Penang Watch

Rapid Penang Sdn Bhd
Lorong Kulit,
10460 Pulau Pinang.
careline@rapidpg.com.my
Tel:
04-2288991

Jabatan Kejuruteraan
Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang
aduan@mppp.gov.my
604-2682202

Kepada Semua,

Aduan Pemandu Rapid Penang Yang Licik Dan Munafik.

Peninjauan pada sebelah malam.
Tiket Tidak Diberikan, Tambang
Bas Tidak Dibenarkan Meletak Ke Tabung
31/Mar/2010 (11.35p-11.45p)
bas no. PJJ4721 laluan 302 Rapid Pg dari
terminal bas Komtar ke
Jalan Jelutong.

There will be a across the board fares hike for all transports in Malaysia-but where is the national improvement in service by these priviledged transport operators? Expecting to gain more by not doing more has become a culture in Malaysia when the Government is seen as an obliging Santa Claus whose only demand is political support to the ruling parties!

Bus, taxi, hire car fares up on Aug 1

KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 – The fares for express and stage buses, mini
buses, school buses, taxis and hire cars nationwide will go up on Aug 1.

 Rapid descend of a new bus naturally raise many questions

Bus falls off elevated highway    

from: malaysianinsider 

KUALA LUMPUR: More than 20 commuters were injured when a bus crashed
through steel guard rails and fell from an elevated portion of the
Kerinchi Link here and crashed onto a motorcycle lane below.

The RapidKL stage bus was travelling along the Federal Highway from
Kuala Lumpur and had begun to climb up the ramp towards Jalan Pantai
Baru when the mishap occurred.

 Is the wheel chair going up or down?

Rapidpg's pose at the launch of its accessible buses on Sunday: the pose at the bus' entrance for the wheelchair folk seems to raise question if the Rapid folks had been receiving well the training from USM academic Dr Tiun-the wheelchair seems to be neither going up or down! To go up the wheelchair should head towards the car. To come down the wheel chair should also be heading towards the bus-but helped from the back of the wheelchair ie the wheel chair should be going backwards when going down. For both situation the wheelchair's safest position is to face the bus. So what is the Rapid folk doing here?

There are some issues that disabled and public transport groups will like to take up with Rapid company-but will they be too late? Of top concern is whether the promised 200 accessible buses to be delivered by end of 2009 has already been a `cooked' deal such that they will not consider improvement? If it is it is a strange way to involve the users in the bus' design-as if the `consultation' is merely a PR! If you think the issue is not big-think about another 1000 `new' accessible buses which Rapid will buy for the Klang Valley!