The 50% fare discount for commuters riding on LRT, Monorail and BRT services between 6am and 7am could be expanded to other periods of the day, according to The Sun.
Rapid Rail CEO Datuk Zohari Sulaiman said that the offer would certainly be expanded to other periods of the day to increase ridership if there is an encouraging response to the current promotion. “Based on observation, the response so far has been encouraging as we can see that there is some increase in ridership for those commuting between 6am and 7am.
“However, what is important is we are able to encourage the public to take rail services earlier as well as reduce the platform crowding that we have faced prior to the implementation of the offer,” he said, adding that a final decision would be made after the completion of detailed discussions and analysis on ridership trends.
The initial discount was offered in order to encourage those travelling at the morning peak hours of between 7am to am to change their travel patterns to help ease congestion at selected stations during those hours.
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70% discount for 5am to 6 am
It should be 6am-9am and 4pm-7pm. These are the hours when commuters commute at its peak. And extend it for MRT when phase 2 kicks in.
The point of this diskaun is to steer peak riders away to less peak hours. Then it will be less logjam during peak periods. A lot of public transports have done this, although never up to 50%.
good decision by prasarana which is owned by the gov.
With this being implemented, many more will be encoruaged to take the public transport, saving environment and reduce asap. although gov revenues will be lesser, with the smart minds working behind our ministries, the reduce revenue from 50% discount to the rakyat is the top priority of the caring government!
well done prasarana and government, keep it up!
– Faiz Roslan CEng
ABang Faiz…Macam mana nie. Shuttle bas pegi stesen LRT Dato Keramat X sampai2 lg, dh tunggu 1 jam lebih. Hujan ribut, atuk nenek basah kuyup kat Bas stop..maseh lg Menunggu….
hujan bukan dlm jangkauan preasrana, dah ada bas kira bagus lah, harap2 jgn komplen. ada byk negara tak da tren dan bas lagi, apatah tren yg murah dan cantik
– Faiz Roslan CEng
Banyak negara kurang maju ada teksi, jeepney, tuk tuk yang lebih kerap dan efisien dari sistem bas, teksi di Malaysia yang kurang memuaskan.
Public transport di MY bukan hanya teksi saja…
Smart minds behind the ministries …woww!
Without ignoring the benefits of LRT…i prefer to have much better brains and ‘bersih’ in the government. Malaysia is blessed with resources…and of course the rakyat deserve all this.development and amenities…but that doesnt mean we can just ignore the ‘ketirisan’ and balooning cost of these development project. At the end cost goes back to us the rakyat and doesnt make different if government spent that much of taxpayers money (bukan duit derma okayy) but we still have to fork out too much public transportation cost to run our daily life.. syukur ada but dont be dumb. We deserve the best cause we are blessed Malaysian.
Diskaun tambang, langkah baik bagi menggalakkan lebih ramai orang menggunakan kemudahan awam sebagai mod pengangkutan utama.
Sistem yang canggih, stesen dan gerabak lebih luas serta selesa adalah antara ciri-ciri sistem pengangkutan era baharu negara. Kesemua elemen tersebut menjadikan sistem tren di Malaysia setaraf dengan negara maju.
Make NO car park fees on the LRT station.