Trainworthy Ong Tee Keat
I dedicate the success to all of you and salute the dedication of each one of you).”
there is no world if there is no corruption.”(mere lines of the hand don’t make life what it is, I too have a role in shaping destiny).”The clickety-clak of the railways is the heartbeat of the common man, progress of the railways is the progress of the nation. The train needs a bit of care and a bit of love and a bit of your adulation.
KTMB doing the best it can
LAST week, I was taken aback when I saw a photograph of a KTM Komuter Electric Multiple Unit train hitched up behind a diesel locomotive with KTMB managing director Abd Razak Abd Malek smiling and flagging off the train.
I could not imagine why Abd Razak was smiling. KTM Komuter service is effectively regressing.
Going back to diesel locomotives to pull these Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) trains is sad and it should never have happened – but that is what you get with poor planning and a lack of investment from the government.
Before you complain to a KTMB employee about poor service or breakdowns, please remember that KTM Komuter is carrying three times the number of passengers it carried in 1994 – using a fleet that is less than half of the original fleet. On a good day KTM Komuter has 25-30 trains operating.
The fleet is breaking down and it is expected to carry three times more passengers – but where is the investment from the government?
New four-carriage EMU trains will arrive this year but the government only bought 13 train sets.
KTM Komuter needs at least 100 new train sets to offer a decent level of service and higher frequency of 7 minutes – which might encourage more passengers to use it.
KTMB management is very innovative and trying to do more in the situation that it is stuck with.
I recall speaking to KTMB management in mid-2008 during the height of what I described as a “Komuter crisis” and gave a suggestion about running shuttle trains pulled by extra diesel locomotives.
Apparently, the new KTM locomotives bought in 2007 were underpowered so instead of being used to haul freight wagons they are being used to pull passenger carriages.
I presume that KTMB does not have enough passenger carriages to be pulled since the Intercity service is seeing growth, so it is innovating again by making use of the “dead” EMU trains.
KTM also innovated with the “New-Q system” last year – another example of the company trying to make the best of a bad situation – and we hope that it will continue innovating and doing its best.
But it is sad to see that we have reduced KTM Komuter service to: using weak, underpowered diesel locomotives pulling “dead” EMU trains that can no longer move under their own power – just so it can provide a level of service that is way below expectations.
KTMB is listening and innovating and doing the best it can with the few crumbs it has been given – but it is the politicians who really need to hear what is being said.
I salute the employees of KTMB and managing director Abd Razak for putting on a brave face.
Moaz Yusuf Ahmad
Subang Jaya
KTMB doing the best it can
LAST week, I was taken aback when I saw a photograph of a KTM Komuter Electric Multiple Unit train hitched up behind a diesel locomotive with KTMB managing director Abd Razak Abd Malek smiling and flagging off the train.
I could not imagine why Abd Razak was smiling. KTM Komuter service is effectively regressing.
Going back to diesel locomotives to pull these Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) trains is sad and it should never have happened – but that is what you get with poor planning and a lack of investment from the government.
Before you complain to a KTMB employee about poor service or breakdowns, please remember that KTM Komuter is carrying three times the number of passengers it carried in 1994 – using a fleet that is less than half of the original fleet. On a good day KTM Komuter has 25-30 trains operating.
The fleet is breaking down and it is expected to carry three times more passengers – but where is the investment from the government?readmoreANWAR SAYS KETUANAN MELAYU ONLY BENEFITS A MINORITY advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said.
New four-carriage EMU trains will arrive this year but the government only bought 13 train sets.
KTM Komuter needs at least 100 new train sets to offer a decent level of service and higher frequency of 7 minutes – which might encourage more passengers to use it.
KTMB management is very innovative and trying to do more in the situation that it is stuck with.
I recall speaking to KTMB management in mid-2008 during the height of what I described as a “Komuter crisis” and gave a suggestion about running shuttle trains pulled by extra diesel locomotives.
Apparently, the new KTM locomotives bought in 2007 were underpowered so instead of being used to haul freight wagons they are being used to pull passenger carriages.
I presume that KTMB does not have enough passenger carriages to be pulled since the Intercity service is seeing growth, so it is innovating again by making use of the “dead” EMU trains.
KTM also innovated with the “New-Q system” last year – another example of the company trying to make the best of a bad situation – and we hope that it will continue innovating and doing its best.
But it is sad to see that we have reduced KTM Komuter service to: using weak, underpowered diesel locomotives pulling “dead” EMU trains that can no longer move under their own power – just so it can provide a level of service that is way below expectations.
KTMB is listening and innovating and doing the best it can with the few crumbs it has been given – but it is the politicians who really need to hear what is being said.
I salute the employees of KTMB and managing director Abd Razak for putting on a brave face.
Moaz Yusuf Ahmad
Subang Jaya
The Chinese enjoyed official largesse by way of large monopolies, concessions, contracts and subsidies – anything from sugar monopoly to large timber concessions, gaming franchises, IPP licences, massive contracts and billion ringgit worth of direct and indirect subsidies.
In fact, official largesse not only helped to prosper the well-connected Malay-, Chinese- and Indian-controlled conglomerates, but also in some instances saved them from bankruptcies.
The YLT official website tells of the company nearly going bankrupt in the 1970s, forcing family members to chip in to rescue it. By the 1980s, the YTL Group took off on a grand scale on account of large government contracts to build schools and modular hospitals and later on privatisation of railway land and the award of the first Independent Power Producer (IPP) licence
PRIVATISATION IS THE LICENSE FOR ELITE MALAYS TO THE EAT the POOR MALAYS, THE MCA GURKA Datuk Liow Tiong Lai WAS ASK TO CLOSE ONE EYE THIS IS HOW THEY RIP OFF THE N ATION’S WEALTH. THIS IS MAHARTIRISM.
How they rip off KTMB RICH LANDBANKand let it bleed to slow death if only could they allow the likes tonny and hisgang to take over whem DIAM proposed it at $2 today We would have the best rail service in Asia The public waited patiently for full disclosure. It was slow in coming. But now that Pricewaterhouse Coopers has completed and submitted its report, Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat should come clean and put the matter to rest.
The man who some months back was locked out of his office, traditionally room no 6 in Parliament House, is now being shown the door by some of his less creative colleagues. Breaking away from a nine-year-old phobia that increasing rail fares would shake a ruling power, Mr Dinesh Trivedi, I think, is right on track.
By upbringing and training Mr Trivedi is a commercial pilot, a close friend of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Like his illustrious friend, he too was forced into politics, or else there was little need for an educated, suave pilot with sufficient means, to pick up a political career. One could have imagined Mr Trivedi starting his consultancy in aviation, maybe starting his own airline as its chairman or CEO. His position heading the government’s largest single undertaking beyond defence is less of an offshoot of personal ambition. It has more to do with a rather strange circumlocution of political circumstances. When Didi split the Congress in the immediate post-Rajiv era, the Kolkata based pilot parliamentarian of Gujarati origin stayed with his local flock. When Didi joined the UPA, and later decided to take charge of Bengal, Mr Trivedi probably had the best credentials to take up the job of the railway ministerREADMORE.http://suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress.com
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