The new 2027 schedule for ETS looks horrendous as there's a lot more visual clutter in order to fit in more info, like additional trips on weekends and the load of dashed lines and confusing arrows that are hard to distinguish There surely must be a simpler way for design…

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Drastic changes to its ETS services starting 2027: more trips (and extras on weekends) across the board, but at the expense of long-haul routes like Penang-JB being split in half at KL Sentral, necessitating a train change at KL Sentral, perhaps for the better due to seat maths…

It irks me that the media ran with KTMB highlighting the “record number” of seats it’s selling on ETS by using the airline method, which is purely calculating the carrying capacity for a point-to-point journey but makes no sense for a train that makes multiple stops on its trip

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Drastic changes to its ETS services starting 2027: more trips (and extras on weekends) across the board, but at the expense of long-haul routes like Penang-JB being split in half at KL Sentral, necessitating a train change at KL Sentral, perhaps for the better due to seat maths…

The siloed decision-making process of local councils to block roads without consideration to bus operations will also be why we will never be serious about public transport

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 4d ago

Perhaps the most messed up aspect above all, is how no one will be held accountable for this - illegal parking is treated as the norm, and RapidKL will not be held liable for not running bus services as scheduled

Perhaps the most messed up aspect above all, is how no one will be held accountable for this - illegal parking is treated as the norm, and RapidKL will not be held liable for not running bus services as scheduled

If you don’t give buses priority measures, they will make their own instead…

Drastic changes to its ETS services starting 2027: more trips (and extras on weekends) across the board, but at the expense of long-haul routes like Penang-JB being split in half at KL Sentral, necessitating a train change at KL Sentral, perhaps for the better due to seat maths…

Starting today, RapidKL will undertake upgrading works at Monorail Line's customer service counters to refurbish workspaces for service officers and to meet accessibility standards set out under MS 1184:2014, with works at Hang Tuah, Bukit Bintang dan Titiwangsa already completed

Pretty annoying and pointless for RapidKL in utilising cross-platform transfer layouts if they’re deliberating timing the connecting Sri Petaling Line trains to leave before passengers could even exit from the Ampang Line trains terminating at Chan Sow Lin

At 06:00 today, two DRT zones were converted to bus routes which resulted in T400B and T512B being the first RapidKL bus routes to be payable by bank cards and DuitQR! Had the honour of meeting the first bus captains on T400B and wished them nothing but success! A short thread:

In case if you missed it and want something cool to do today evening: a short documentary by Amirul Ruslan featuring my works (and an amazing lineup of other creators) will premiere today at PJPAC from 20:00 onwards! I’ll be there with a cool little booth to show some works of mine as well

Overheard how the recent Petronas Grand Prix audio advertising by RapidKL sounded “like 9/11” at the ending was lowkey kind of true RapidKL has been putting more increasingly more intrusive PSA over speakers and this needs to be addressed

Within Prasarana, this is not the first time that DRT vans were repurposed for fixed-bus services, as RapidPenang had done the same at the start of the year with bus routes with low frequencies mostly in the mainland:

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 2w ago

In a step that I hope many will follow, RapidKL is converting DRT zones T400B in Cheras and T512B in Putrajaya into fixed bus route services This may not mark the end of DRTs, but it should be a natural evolution as many DRT zones could've been better served as fixed bus routes

Spotted outside of MITEC during TXA 2026 of what looks to be MRT Corp’s “Prototype” double-deck MRT feeder bus in a slick all-black livery with a white EDS Should MRT Corp buy double-deck buses to serve popular MRT feeder bus routes❓⁉️❓

Throwback to May when some bus captains underwent LRT3 feeder bus route familiarisation prior to opening, BCs shuffled outside of their usual operating zones were spotted using OSMand on personal phones for navigation Always refreshing to see OpenStreetMap in unexpected places!

In a step that I hope many will follow, RapidKL is converting DRT zones T400B in Cheras and T512B in Putrajaya into fixed bus route services This may not mark the end of DRTs, but it should be a natural evolution as many DRT zones could've been better served as fixed bus routes

Interestingly, Causeway Link has a booth at TXA 2026 and has what could be the first BAS.MY Johor Bahru registration table for a BAS.MY service outside of its service area and also the first time BAS.MY cards are issued in KL:

Must be a certain flavour of faux pas for a transport expo to suggest a bus route that runs nowhere near the venue, MITEC

Just revealed by Minister Loke jointly with MRL: 30% discount for all adults in standard/economy class for a month from launch!

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Malaysia Rail Link, the operator of East Coast Rail Link, has revealed prices for economy/standard class between Gombak to Kota Bharu as low as 125 MYR for a local service, while express is slightly higher at 147 MYR, with discounts for children, PwDs, students, and the elderly

Positioning itself like KTMB’s ETS, MRL’s ECRL is adequately priced where it is more expensive by express buses (owning to traffic conditions) but cheaper (and convenient if counting door-to-door) than flying Its first real crowd test after December would be Raya next year

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Malaysia Rail Link, the operator of East Coast Rail Link, has revealed prices for economy/standard class between Gombak to Kota Bharu as low as 125 MYR for a local service, while express is slightly higher at 147 MYR, with discounts for children, PwDs, students, and the elderly

Malaysia Rail Link, the operator of East Coast Rail Link, has revealed prices for economy/standard class between Gombak to Kota Bharu as low as 125 MYR for a local service, while express is slightly higher at 147 MYR, with discounts for children, PwDs, students, and the elderly

The sorry state of transport journalism in this country is when questions like “will foreigners be banned from taking buses” is something worth asking the minister when far more pressing issues like bus delays and capacity shortfalls exists

One of the fascinating highlights was how Ng Sze Han, Executive Councillor for Selangor Mobility, turned the script on introducing people: instead of dragging me to see Amirudin Shari, the Chief Minister of Selangor, Sze Han brought Amirudin instead to see me (and other great-minded activists too!)

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m at the Selangor Mobility Symposium to (hopefully) influence the future of transport policy in the state! Looking forward to hear from my followers – What's your biggest concern about the future of transport in the Klang Valley?

The Selangor Mobility Symposium closed with an MoU exchange between RMSB, an agency under Menteri Besar Incorporated tasked to drive the mobility agenda in Selangor, with reputable organisations with international capacity and know-how in transit, like IDTP, Arup, and UITP:

Truer words haven’t been said in front of an audience of local councils running free buses without improving service by a presenter from UITP: people won’t value a service if it’s free, and making improvements to a free service is a harder sell

Food for thought: the Selangor government, in facing challenges in mobility, is suggesting the following: - another app for all transport in Selangor only - a centralised complaint channel/helpdesk for mobility issues They’re good low hanging fruits but we need to aim higher

I’m at the Selangor Mobility Symposium to (hopefully) influence the future of transport policy in the state! Looking forward to hear from my followers – What's your biggest concern about the future of transport in the Klang Valley?

Perhaps the first time seeing a transport subsidy (or a government aid of its kind) where it is restricted based on your voting address, where it may entice non-Selangor voters but residents to change their address to benefit from the subsidy

The episodes of Kelana Jaya Line disruptions in 2022 are repeating once more: issues of delayed spare parts were masked by new rolling stock acquisitions, and theres no assurance that CRRC would guarantee less breakdowns over Alstom/Bombardier’s INNOVIA ART trains

As is with Hong Kong, extensive public transport connectivity across the city to the new immigration complex was planned months before the first day of operations, with crowd stress-testing transport options prior to opening

Ernest is: on transit! 🚌🚇🚅@ernestonpt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Earlier today, Hong Kong and Shenzhen jointly opened the new Huanggang Port, an integrated customs and immigration complex, which looks very reminiscent of the Bukit Chagar CIQ with two immigration authorities under one building, just without a cross-border metro service

Earlier today, Hong Kong and Shenzhen jointly opened the new Huanggang Port, an integrated customs and immigration complex, which looks very reminiscent of the Bukit Chagar CIQ with two immigration authorities under one building, just without a cross-border metro service