The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang line has ferried around 7.4 million passengers since it began operating, Bernama reports. Phase one of 51 km-long stretch of urban rail began operations in December, and phase two was opened to the public in July.
According to Rapid Rail CEO Datuk Zohari Sulaiman, during the period, an average of about 100,000 commuters used the MRT each day on working days while on weekends, the number rose to around 140,000.
“The station getting the most number of passengers is Bukit Bintang, which takes people to the Kuala Lumpur Golden Triangle area where there are well-known shopping complexes like Pavilion and Lot 10,” he said. He added that the number of passengers is expected to increase during the 2017 SEA Games (KL2017), which runs until August 30.
The MRT is projected to reduce traffic entering KL daily by 160,000 vehicles, based on an estimated 400,000 riders per day. It’s also expected to reduce up to 34,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions yearly, and the train service is also capable of reducing the cost of living for Klang Valley folk, according to domestic trade, cooperatives and consumerism (KPDNKK) minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.
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this morning breakdown cause many late 1.5 hrs to work, world class?
Yet YB nvr mrt to work..
Tell that to rich pipu. Would they follow?
Does the CEO himself take LRT and MRT? The answer is a big NO. He goes about with his driver and his S400h everywhere.
Does any minister take MRT? Not even one. All go in big rombongan in entourage of about 5 or 6 cars with outriders
In UK, Ministers sit in the London Underground tube to go to Parliament. No entourage or bodyguards. No driver. No limo
Agreed, but Msia takboleh la, banyak penyamun di sekitar Msia, UK lain cerita, kalau menteri ambik LRT tanpa rombongan pasti kena samun atau diculik. Long story short ini semua salah menteri menteri yang tidak menjaga ekonomi dan hal ehwal sosial negara yang menyebabkan peningkatan kes jenayah. Karma la tu.
The best part is being stuck inside while listening to the voice over and over again saying a million times “we are better than new york, better than hong kong.”
Man, grow up and get some manners in your speeches, even in the unlikely event we are better there is no need to broadcast it in the train for the amusement of the tourists and annoyance of the locals.
Wait MRT : 8.15am
Time in : 8.30am
Arrive : 9.45am
Of course late, kek
pls complaint direct to them.kat sini xguna.
Yes. World class like Southoverlordland. The more breakdowns, the more world class.
Heard from colleague, breakdown.. more frequent nowadays.. emergency bus was not activated.. forced people to take comfort taxi/grabcar..
SMRT breakdowns is becoming norm there but basher dunno cuz living in cave.
JAguh Kampung say World Class. Same like Proton say BMW of Asia….better than BMW and Volvo
But if follow basher logic, more sales mean better. Means proton saying is right.
Sounds like a loss making business , 7.4 millon passenger , assuming each pay RM 3 , so MRT has made about RM 22 million. Damn ..
It is okay. Just like Proton, lose RM4 mil per day but janji can feed the 12,000 workers.
And yet we have pipu who complains too exp.
What? Can see more hondas and toyotas in PPRT Housing area.. how come car be expensive in msia???
MY on track to be developed nation.
Dont be so proud MRT. Off the 7.4 mil, 5 million of them are Bangladeshis and Indonesians. They don’t own cars.
So, how is it going to reduce cars by 160,000 vehicles?
Don’t bluff us. Go ride in the MRT and see, 80% all foreign workers. So how dei?
That’s why DBKL should seriously consider congestion charges for private vehicles entering KL. That’s one way to push people to start using public transport.
Gov got no time to consider congestion charge. Straight increase petrol price.
So much negative aura from some My pipu.. haih.. Complaint saja tau. If the passenger is foreigner, whats the problem. They pay to use it. MRT not plan to only used by my pipu. Ya.. i’m proud of MRT. Jelly?
Starts with you.
Obvoiusly you never been in one
Traffic have reduced quite a lot…use to take me 1 hour to bukit bintang …now 30-40mins…so unless all those foreigners are driving to work everyday …which u can use yr pea brain to conclude..dont talk kok
U tryin to say them 5mil foreign workers r smarter than 7mil pipu staying in klang valley? What happen to all that education & degrees & superior brain?
or
U tryin to say that 1st world leaders that using public transport daily must be same level as their foreign workers? Despite all them having more credibility than u ever will have?
So mana ni?
I wonder when the feasibility study for Penang tunnel will be ready? Money paid but still no report. It is odd that the feasibility study for the tunnel is being done by the tunnel developer after the award of the tender.
MRT starting to make money already…we penangite demand better leaders.
Its consession.. state goment doesnt need to pay a cent.. unless they blame fed goment hold the approval.. go head go stern, state goment win..
Its concession. Then when tol mahal blame the fed. Haih..
they paid by selling off land worth up to 6 billion ringgit , and then gave consession up to 30 years for toll collection, furthermore the feasibility studies costs the state gomen rm300 million, and its being conducted AFTER the land was sold BY THE SAME COMPANY that was awarded the project,
Get your facts right
Look at Penag…how they have progressed. It looks like Singapore. So clean. So many investors want to invest in Penang cause got no dedak
Yes we looked. Chockfull jam with cars and now they make narrow lanes more narrower with that rarely used bike lane. Pipu tension high like mad. State got no money nor land and environment is down the drain. When see into the drain, can find the pipu running the state.
Malaysia is good on building things, but no maintain later, few years later all look old and breakdown often.
Hope the number increases or AT LEAST maintains after 31st Aug where passengers have to pay the FULL price from Sept onwards.
Oklah tak payah bailout.
nak bailout macamana fully owned by MOF. bukan swasta mcm Monorail dan Putra LRT dulu…
According to minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin, the train service is capable of reducing the cost of living for Klang Valley folk.
I could not agree more. Now U can go to parliament & ask all your friends to take the MRT so that Malaysian can save some $$$ & U all can claim that U have done your part which is reducing traffic & carbon dioxide emissions. Don’t just talk OK?!
MRT is for pipu not for them la stupid. If it is built for them i am more than happy to increase the ticket price 10x
He he he. I agree with U 100% when U say – MRT is for “pipu” not for them la stupid. I presume “them” refer to – Half past 6 ministers. Tell me who is the STUPID one here?!
U the one, if u think serving a couple hundreds pipu is better than serving MILLIONS.
Correct me if I am wrong
7.4 mil might seem like a big figure but don’t get carried away.
Dec 2016 – Aug 2017 = 270 days (30 x 9mths)
7,400,000 passengers/270 days = 27400 passengers per day (approx.)
My question is, out of 27,400 passengers, how many of them WERE public transport users before MRT was built(LRT, MONOREL, BUS).
If 27400 were previously motorists then, MRT sure did a great wonderful job, but if most of them switched from LRT or bus then it is not really helping the road traffic. Does anyone get me?
Bodo even if the MRT has same destinatio as LRT or bus it can beat the traffic jam. Who wants it more than motorists?
Eh, then u want MRT to stop at ur mom house ah?
Your comment shows that your mentality is equivalent to john. Maybe you are john. hahaha juz sayin
Ohwai is new dupe for caveman basher aka part time toyota SA. Get ur persons right.
Do you really have to be that rude by starting the sentence with the word you used? Have some class or this country will never go beyond 3rd world.
Oh wait you’re comfortable there, I forgot…
Given choice, NOBODY wants to take MRT……
Why?
Slow, Late and Smelly….
Dun compare our MRT with that “slow, late and smelly” down south
OMG have you been in one? Talk kok here wasting time lor
Have you tried? Did you get onto the right one?
Honestly I’d rather endure slow, late and smelly rather than being at risk of heart attack from Malaysian drivers not using signal, etc.
Maybe you’re one of them cuz you like to be fast, and flicking a switch reduces your speed
You step on shit or your mouth got shit? Deswai smelly lor
so… 1 day i took mrt, that makes me 2 time i enter and exit a station.
does that makes me 4 different persons (since i enter/exit 2 diff stations)
20 * 4 = 80 diff person in a month excluding weekends
80 * 8 = 640 from Dec – Aug
how in the world they came out with that number?
just want to make a news…. i see
English pegi mana? Its passengers, not person.
If u ride to, its 1 passenger there.
If u ride back, its 1 passenger back.
So total is 2 passenger rides.
Sometimes a person ride to, but not back. So its considered 1 passenger.
Paham?