Damn Metrobus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by uncle chan

If you are road user of Jalan Genting Klang (Kuala Lumpur), or student from TARC (Tunku Abdul Rahman college)/UTAR (University Tunku Abdul Rahman), you must experienced nightmare by the damn Metrobus !

Let see what the damn Metrobus done :

1) Causing heavy traffic jam

Everyday morning on weekday, road users suffer heavy traffic jam on Jalan Genting Klang (Goto Kuala Lumpur city direction will be more suffer), Metrobus will standby or move slowly with occupy one lane of the road for waiting passengers. Metrobus just cause more serious traffic jam on Jalan Genting Klang , if you go through Jalan Genting Klang everyday, you should know more clearly than me. Metrobus also cause TBR (Taman Bunga Raya which is residential beside TARC) traffic jam on TARC’s entrance on morning and evening.

2) Wasting passengers time

There is only one condition to make Metrobus start up is full of passengers. If you get in Metrobus early, then you gonna wait for full house which full until no space to stand. If you rushing time for going college or Wangsa Maju LRT station, don’t take the Metrobus otherwise you will be late.

Metro Bus at Jalan Genting Klang

One more i experienced recently is, Metrobus keep waiting opposite of TARC’s entrance and turning back to UTAR and TARC again to get more passengers until the bus full. My longest time ‘travel’ from TARC to Jalan Genting Klang is 1 hour, ridiculous.

3) Commission first, safety last

Yes, commission make them greedy, they get more commission by taking more passenger so you know why they keeping waiting for passengers. Sardine inside sandwich can be use for describe situation of full passengers inside Metrobus. They not care for safety by exceed the passengers limit, some passengers stand on the staircase and may block driver’s side mirror view.

RapidKL is much better than Metrobus because less waiting time (RapidKL driver paid by fixed salary). Unfortunately, Metrobus is the main bus in Jalan Genting Klang/Wangsa Maju areas compared to RapidKL which less busses than Metrobus. If RapidKL can increase one bus on Jalan Genting Klang/Wangsa Maju every 10-15min (include Utama and Tempatan), definitely can beat the damn Metrobus down.

Please leave comment if you experienced bad services from Metrobus and i like to know whether other areas in Kuala Lumpur has same problem from Metrobus too.