Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad chaired his first cabinet meeting as the seventh prime minister of Malaysia today, and in the press conference after the session, announced a couple of changes with regards to government agencies. One that concerns transport is the disbanding of the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD).
The Malay Mail reports that SPAD’s functions will return to the transport ministry. “SPAD will not be maintained, but the duties will be returned to transport ministry,” Mahathir said. When asked to elaborate on the announcement, the PM said this meant SPAD would be “abolished”.
The commission – which was under the the purview of the prime minister’s department – plans, regulates and enforces all matters relating to land public transport in Peninsular Malaysia, according to its website. It was founded in 2010.
Earlier, new transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook said that he will propose to the cabinet that SPAD be placed under his ministry to avoid the overlapping of tasks.
Expect other agencies to receive the chop from the new administration. “Most of these institutions are not actually part of the government, and are supposed to advise the government. All these (institutions) will be disbanded. We are studying which one we will have to scrap, which one we will continue, which one we will defer to a later date,” Mahathir said.
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Our national debt is RM1,000,000,000,000.00
Its time to trim the fat
The disgraceful fall of the Birkin kingdom
A big chunk of it to be paid by us tax payers..that’s for sure…
It’s the poor subsidies the rich
Better than poor subsidies Birkins
It’s the poor feedings the 1MDB.
Rm1,000,000,000,000.00 divided by say population of 30, 000,000 = RM33,000 per person owing!
Better close SPAD. Money wasted. All goyang kaki and never do any work. Per month, easily can save about RM30 million in gaji alone.
Time to trim even Putrajaya. Too many goyang kaki
Dont disrespect SPAD staff lah.
Betui. Adat kat mana?
rest in pieces sPad!
MAI next to abolish.
MAI & MIROS too. these guys are academics, only playing with statistic and giving recommendations. for MIROS case, try read some of their ‘research journals’.. pathetic. while I acknowledge (some of) their roles, their contributions vs operational cost is disproportionate.
absorb them to MOT. trim their organization. retain only the most useful bunch (i.e.: in charge of ANCAP) and get them do their job at a government salary rate.
Despite my name, im actually an avid supporter of public transport. I think this is a step backwards to planning & enforcement of all public transport related matters.
SPAD is the sole agency that are studying and implementing nationwide public transport planning. Previously with MoT, the were not that much public transport planning. Even the last public transport we got before the LRT 2 extension was the LRT PUTRA & STAR way back in 1998!
What will happen to all the upcoming study that SPAD is doing? MRT 3? Bangi-Putrajaya Tram? And who will address complaints if bus operators or taxis are running errant?
Dont tell me MoT will take all these tasks with their existing manpower? So now 1 guy in MoT have to take care of many more SPAD’s previous work. Good luck in getting things done fast then. I guess we can expect not much public transport project in the foreseeable future.
And Hello new national car, PROTIGA.
No money, no talk
Pal cut all red tapes. red tapes are bad bad for business and rakyat.
MoT, JPJ can replace SPAD dutied. Too many Govt servant. Not economical to run this country…
Time to buck up
Stop taking tea brake in the morning, afternoon and evening
Gov agency really need to consolidate
John i know it’s you cos you stink and i can smell it from miles away. Don’t change your nick to “practical car lover”.
Downsize n take pay cut to curb gov spending. So a quarter of civil servants can start looking for other jobs or applying to become grab driver. Oops.. maybe grab also would be abolished!
Saya sendiri buat 3 kerja.
This is excellent news! :)
These superfluous government agencies like SPAD and Jasa were created so political appointees like Isa Samad can draw fat salary and keep their mouths shut.
I think another agency, the goverment should abolished is MAI. Until nowadays habuk pun tadak.
time for taxi drivers to rejoice.
It’s time to trim down or merge government departments. For example if we go to SPAD they will ask us to refer to MOT. Then we go to MOT and they will ask us to refer back to SPAD for some matters. In the end we need to deal with 2 or more departments to get something done. This is a waste of time for all parties. Cutting the red tape and simplify the procedures is a must. That would reduce the chances if corruption as well.