MyBas stage bus service to begin – Kuala Terengganu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching to introduce similar service

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The MyBas stage bus service is set to commence by the end of this month with new routes in and around Perlis and Seremban. A total of 24 buses are expected to ply 15 different routes, circulating Kangar, Arau, Padang Besar and Wang Kelian, from 9 am to 6 pm daily, The Star understands.

In Seremban, a total of 107 buses are expected to ply 24 routes in the city as well as its outskirts and Nilai. Said routes are expected to stretch to Senawang, Tampin, Broga, Port Dickson and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). The service has been touted to serve up to 7.47 million commuters in Seremban and 870,000 in Perlis annually.

However, the English daily has reported that a hiccup in establishing the electronic ticketing machines in the buses had led to delay. “However, we are still confident that the service will start by the end of this month,” a spokesman for the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) commented.

Additionally, Kuala Terengganu, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching are also expected to introduce a similar service in the near future – the former eager to begin operations by October this year. “We are in the midst of finalising the contract and vehicle operation cost. The contract is expected to be signed this month and the tentative launch date will be in October,” a SPAD spokesperson said.

A contract for Kuching’s stage bus service is expected to be signed come July 2015. Also stated in the report was SPAD’s intention to have local stage bus companies operate the MyBas service in peninsula, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu by 2020. The entire project is expected to cost the government RM2.7 billion by 2020.

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  • hondaman on Jun 10, 2015 at 9:44 am

    nasib baik guna nama MyBas bukan BAS1M (Bas satu malaysia)

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  • we can keep our cars in the garage lo. no more jam

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  • Bas or Bus? on Jun 10, 2015 at 10:54 am

    Dear Paultan,

    Please don’t put a European/American bus picture there, it’s misleading. Their bus is clean, efficient and the bus driver is professional and store your luggage for you.
    Another thing is, what happened to Transnational and other crony bus operator?
    “The entire project is expected to cost the government RM2.7 billion by 2020.” Correction: “The entire project is expected to cost the “PEOPLE, aka RAKYAT” RM2.7 billion by 2020.”

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    • kzm (Member) on Jun 10, 2015 at 1:23 pm

      dont u read sentence before that? “Also stated in the report was SPAD’s intention to have LOCAL STAGE BUS COMPANIES operate the MyBas service in peninsula, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu by 2020.”

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      • Bas or Bus? on Jun 10, 2015 at 2:36 pm

        Don’t you read clearly, “intention” means….intention. AND My question is, should we have a communist type system where the government dictate how business is run on top of a open market type, AND what happened to those hundreds of crony bus operator which had given funds/loans/grant to operate a route, shouldn’t they be providing a service ALREADY, instead of having ANOTHER PROGRAM CALLED MyBas or MyFkgAss!

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        • Buses Blues on Jun 10, 2015 at 6:15 pm

          As what I understand, MyBas,Nice, Plusliner are all under the same group called KTB. ( Konsortium Transnational Berhad ). Hope it answers your question. Btw, this MyBas project has 168 units in total. While there are double deck Rapid buses which had started producing since last year. BRT too…which started at Sunway.

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