A friend of mine, from neighbor country. He told me this before.

He was frequent traveler to KL since 90’s. It was when Malaysia economy emerged very fast, due to many factors, under the ruling of Tun M.

That was time when our Putra LRT, now Rapid KL Kelana Jaya Line, firstly launched.

The poor guy was waiting for the train underground of KLCC.

He had the habit, waiting at the last platform gate. That’s pretty normal for those taking trains (MRTs) in Singapore, I guess.

However, when the train first arrived, he was shocked.

The train go all the way beyond the last gate. The train only stop in the middle of the platform, and only 4 gates in the middle opened.

Realizing that, the poor guy had to run all the way to catch the train before the door closed.

Our Putra LRT had only 2 coaches per train, buddy, even though the platform built for longer trains.

It was late 90’s.

More than 10 years after the event, only we started to use 4 coaches train. What’s wrong with us?

Well, if thing were to change, how? For years we don’t see improvement done by government. Is it possible that we as PEOPLE can do something to help ourselves? But, HOW?? There are a few ideas:

1. Work from home. What I means so far is work from home in general. A lot of industry that is allowable to work from home, for example sales in any business, IT support or programmers, traders, etc.

2. Travel in group. Try to gather your fellow colleagues or friends that work around the same area to travel together.

3. Differencing time of attending and leaving from office to spread the heavy load on the road at certain point in time.

4. Bla bla…

Well, then I start to think that if we all gather our mind and share some ideas, maybe we can ultimately find the best solution. Then it comes the facebook group idea. The idea is at first we need to know how many are there on the road everyday, what kind of population and job nature of the people, what are the things that possibly be improved, so on and so forth. Then we together educate and help each other to implement a better habit to reduce traffic burden. Maybe with people power, we could urge the government to be more proactively setting the right policy to solve the problem and plan for a better future.

Anyway, things is just started. At the beginning, we need the ball rolling by getting more minds in the group. CLICK HERE to join and share, discuss. Thank you.

This is how the traffic on the main road (Precint 1) looks like in the Friday afternoon.

The cars parked almost every single corner of the surrounding area within Parcel E Government Complex.

An alternative way to access to the government offices, that exist but not that much people aware of, is called “PARK AND RIDE”. It simply means, you just drive down and park your car in the park and ride terminal, there are buses that could bring you to where you want to go. There are a few park and ride terminals for people traveling to Putra Jaya and Cyberjaya. The problem is there is not a lot of awareness campaign for the public on the facilities.

The website information that I could find about it:

CLICK HERE

CLICK HERE

And, according to this news clip, the initiative of building monorail facility to link the Putrajaya township has been halted for 4 years. The relationship here is, the monorail was meant to facilitate patron that drive and park their cars in the terminal, then could take the monorail to visit places in Putrajaya. Click here for the original report.

So, just to share some of my personal experience when I tried to go Alamanda with Nadi Putra (suttle bus service that surrounds Putrajaya). I drove from Cyberjaya to Putrajaya Central, which you could easily find it by just follow “PARK AND RIDE” signage on the highway. I went into the terminal, and easily find a place to park, since not much public that knows and willing to use this facility.

Sign board that is easy for you to identify the right bus to ride.

The problem is, even there are many routes that could bring me to Alamanda, there weren’t any buses there. Then I start to wait. The bus only came after almost half an hour of waiting.

From the same terminal, we can access to ERL, Putrajaya station (if we take ERL from here then can actually end up in KL Central or KLIA) as well as some other buses to Cyberjaya and other towns around Klang Valley. I saw one that go to One Utama.

Alright, the bus finally came. We can not just pay with TouchnGo. It have to be coins of RM 0.50 or their special card which I don’t have. If you don’t have the change, you just end up paying extra. Or you may want to partner with another person that have small change and pay RM 1.00 for 2 person.

Going travelling into Putrajaya township was a great experience. You have the feel as you are in another country. No doubt, it is very highly organized and managed. It is really a huge investment that has been put in to build this township. However, due to aging and bad user attitude (standard la for Malaysian), some of the facilities is having visible damage and flaw.

The bus trip took me half an hour to reach Alamanda because it need to go through the housing area and round the government quarters. I am not sure whether I took the correct route, maybe it is other route that may take shorter time to reach Alamanda.

So instead of driving straight to where you want to go, end up facing difficulties to find a place to park, do consider park and ride. The caveat is you are not in damn rushing mode. Waiting for the bus and “eat wind” in the bus could just take you more than 1 hour from the terminal to where you want to be.