MRT on wrong track without masterplan, says Transit

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 A internal ride advocacy group has questioned a wisdom of committing up to RM50 billion in to a Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) plan but waiting for a open ride masterplan which will only be finished during a finish of this month.

The Association For The Improvement Of Mass Transit (Transit) told The Malaysian Insider which this has scored equally a hands of ride authorities to a plan instead of alternatives such as a train fast movement (BRT).

File print of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (centre) rising a MRT plan in July.

Weve put a ride before a horse as weve already motionless you wish to have a largest-ever infrastructure project, got a alignment as well as open feedback done as well as giving out contracts though nobody unequivocally knows what a big picture plan is, pronounced a orator Rajiv Rishyakaran.

Rajiv, who is representing a group while a chairman Muhammad Zulkarnain Hamzah is in Canada pursuing further studies, cited a Light Rail Transit (LRT) as a warning of a pitfalls of going ahead but a blueprint.

Now more than a decade later they are fluctuating it for RM7 billion, he pronounced of a dual LRT lines which had price an initial RM5.5 billion though continues to see low trade during multiform stations.

The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) had begun drafting a inhabitant open ride masterplan in Sep last year, three months after it was established to streamline a countrys open ride system.

Although it gave itself 12 months to finalise a inhabitant open ride blueprint, a alignment for a initial MRT line using 51km from Sungai Buloh to Kajang was opened to open feedback in March with tendering of work commencement in April.

SPAD arch senior manager Mohd Nur Kamal had pronounced during a official MRT launch in Jul which there is no sense waiting for a masterplan as a mega plan was essenti! ally gea red towards jump-starting a Najib administations Economic Transformation Programme.

Rajiv pronounced a masterplan additionally fell short of a full ride masterplan which would take in to comment pick parties such as a Public Works Department, internal councils as well as a Malaysian Highway Authority.

Instead, SPAD will plan as well as cranky a fingers which everything else falls in to place, a Subang Jaya internal councillor said.

Although Rajiv would not exhibit sum of Transits dual discussions with SPAD over a masterplan this year, he pronounced a Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) had not been approached to discuss train routes, so you can deduce which citation they are heading.

Transit had progressing due a BRT as an pick for alleviating choking highway trade in a Klang Valley, saying which implementing it would price 50 times less than a MRT.

But a idea was shot down in a MRTs environmental impact assessment report which pronounced which it would require 90-passenger vehicles to run undeviating scarcely each 10 seconds to compare a MRTs targeted 30,000 passengers per hour per citation (PPHPD).

The MRT plan has come under fire from assorted parties together with Malay contractors who demanded which qualifications for projects be eased to ensure Bumiputera participation.

Several communities have additionally been up in arms over SPADs insistence which it contingency acquire their land to set up tracks for a plan which it says is in a greater open interest.