{"id":2038,"date":"2008-06-12T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/12\/minister-uses-public-transport\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:49:12","slug":"minister-uses-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/12\/minister-uses-public-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister uses public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I wrote that MPs should be <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/11\/should-everyone-change-their-lifestyle-to-reduce-fuel-price-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\">forced to take public transport<\/a>. Looks like one of them already had. MP Johor Bahru and Minister for Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs took ERL from Putrajaya to KL Sentral. Of course the comfort of the stations and the ERL is better than road transport, so there won&#8217;t be much complaint about cleanliness, dust etc. However, even ERL is getting packed nowadays as areas surrounding in Salak Tinggi become more populated. There are also people travelling from Putrajaya to KL or Bandar Tasik Selatan. Perhaps its time to lower ERL&#8217;s ticket price.<\/p>\n<p>NST and Star both provided some comments from Shahrir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/shahrir-erl.jpg\" alt=\"Shahrir takes ERL\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"> Picture courtesy of Sin Chew Jit Poh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A single ticket to Putrajaya costs RM9.50 and a return ticket costs RM15. Considering Putrajaya is about 30km from the city, the fare is reasonable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Wednesday\/National\/2264383\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, in the Star, he prrovided more comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s not so convenient since there is no bus connection from my house to KL Sentral to take the ERL to Putrajaya. My wife has to send me to KL Sentral and my driver picks me up in Putrajaya. He will be bringing the matter up in the Cabinet today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/shahrir-erl2.jpg\" alt=\"Shahrir takes ERL\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tracking the system: Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Samad arriving at the Express Rail Link station in Putrajaya yesterday, the second day he was trying public transport from his home in Jalan Tunku in Kuala Lumpur to his office in Putrajaya. His verdict after two days? &#8220;It&#8217;s not so convenient since there is no bus connection from my house to KL Sentral to take the ERL to Putrajaya. My wife has to send me to KL Sentral and my driver picks me up in Putrajaya. He will be bringing the matter up in the Cabinet today. Shahrir is a frequent user of ERL to KLIA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/6\/11\/nation\/21518642&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I wrote that MPs should be forced to take public transport. Looks like one of them already had. MP Johor Bahru and Minister for Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs took ERL from Putrajaya to KL Sentral. Of course the comfort of the stations and the ERL is better than road transport, so there won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-bn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}