Express bus firms plying the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban route must now provide buses exclusively for women on a daily basis, transport minister Anthony Loke announced yesterday. The new ruling came as a result of requests from female commuters, Malay Mail reported.
“At present, there are three companies providing the service, and we have told them to provide four trips every hour between 5am and 7am for women only. This is to allow female passengers who travel to work every morning to do so in comfort,” Loke said. The same four-trips-hourly frequency also applies for the evening rush between 5pm and 7pm, he added.
Roughly 2,000 people commute on express buses between Kuala Lumpur and Seremban, The Star reported. Loke also visited the Terminal 1 bus station in Seremban, and noted the need to upgrade the facility. “It’s time that we look at how to upgrade this terminal so it becomes a modern terminal, in accordance with the times,” he said.
The transport ministry is also looking at ways to modernise bus terminals in Seremban as most of them are privately run, noting that there is framework for bus terminals to receive revenue from bus and car parking. Additionally, it is possible for them to gain revenue from online ticketing systems or the centralised ticketing system, Loke said.
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I duno what machais are on whatsapp with Anthony Loke. must be his cousins, school mate, teh tarik kaki
his sister probably told him hey my back glass i want tinted, can you make policy ha. ok
some taxi uncle told him, eh i duno how to use apps la, can kacau the grab driver ha. ok
auntie told him, hey i take bus to kl from seremban dowan sit next to guy la. ok
Grab exploiting drivers, passengers, delivery boys murdered, dying in traffic accident, low wages, high commission, unethical practices. “We must study this first”
He left brains at home when making decisions in Parliamen. This is the level of Ministers we voted for? :shakes head:
You nailed it bro!
My JPJ Special Number Plet whatsapp group oso senyap sepi ..
Maybe LHS seats for men, RHS seats for ladies? Fair and square.
Later femenistas will claim the menfolk sitting at LHS are “raping” them with their eyes. So how?
Better to put ladies at the back half of the bus and men in front, draw a curtain to partition the 2 portions, then have ladies and men line up in separate lines so there is no chance of contact, then during boarding have the ladies go up first but in disembarking have the men go first.
This can be done, just go see at northern East Coast states.
Just curtain the ladies up, this can be done.
Bus for women only? Got volume or not? This will make the cost higher and who is going up absorb it?
Why are you complaining? Are u the towkay of the bus company?
So when the bus companies closed down due to massive losses incurred, don’t complain you no longer have bus services from KL to and fro Seremban!
Thats nonsense. If they are loosing money h why are they even still operating now. You mean they are doing charity is it?
Because there is a business to be made and they get government grants for their services. But on daily operations, they are not making enough to cover expenses. Do read up on their plight more to understand.
Easy to order but who will willing to do. Intercity buses are running at loss and now they are forced to have a bus service specifically for gender? Sure they will complain about losing more money rapidly! Even the operators did begrudgingly provide the service, it wouldn’t be up to a satisfactory level, making everyone unhappy with this arrangement.
Dumb decision Mr Minister!
This is becoming a joke, is this action consider as discrimination? Honestly, the world made female feel so entitled what about male?
Joke it is.
Speaks volumes of our society (or the failings of such) if we have to go through such lenghts to protect the fairer gender.
We are creating medications for the symptoms and not the disease.
Loke dan joke berpisah tiada
Why only this route ah?? Oh yah, Ah Loke punya constituency.
Macam Semi Value made sure his constituency doesn’t pay NSE toll when travelling to Ipoh.
I really do not understand the rational of the requirement. Its not like the bus are packed jammed with all the passengers standing. All the passengers have their own seat. If let say that they do not want to sit next to a guy and there are no more empty seat, just wait for another bus. Anyway KL – Seremban bus frequency quite ok what..
I WANT A BUS ONLY FOR MEN. I AM SICK AND TIRED TO HAVE TO RIDE PUBLIC TRANSPORTS AND HAVE TO SIT NEXT TO A WOMEN. Have you all seen the women nowadays? So many ugly ones, and also big fat strong ones that could beat me, rob me and rape me. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GOVERNMENT, don’t be sexist towards men. We men need protection too.
Go ride a motorbike. Dont make noise like a women, please.
You seemed to be making all those noises here. Yeah go ride a bike if you don’t like men nearby.
Yeah right, make school buses for female kids too. Male students today are getting very curious about the opposite gender….Never know what the boys could do later, huh? Can Mr Minister?
Imagine the outrage if buses for men only were provided. So much for equality…
this guy starts to becoming Joker #2..he really got nothing much can come up and make all kinds of bullshit regulation to the max…i want to see what if only 2 passengers and the bus will start the trip or not.
KL-Seremban express buses for ladies a must – Loke, does the bus driver a women too?
Waste of money and resources.. You provide female only bus, female only train compartments etc but yet you leave a big loopholes in the most crucial area which is Hospital.. Why on earth must a women spread her legs and show private parts during delivery of baby and the male doctor is the one who most of the time takes care of it? Where is the women doctor? Practical male doctors etc, also part of the privacy raping of the women.. Why on earth must be a stupid male study Gynaecology and take care of the female private area?? Leave women to deal with it.. Alot of women extremely uncomfortable and with no choice, they have to deal with it.. Of course there is a private hospital but the bills are very high.. So please try to provide female only environment for delivery first before wasting resources to provide female only buses.. Does not make sense at all, you provide so called comfort for the journey but exposed extremely the privacy of women during deliveries..