Free this Saturday? Join me on a free and fun tour on Klang Valley's newest transit line, where we stare at the features of various stations' and joyride a bus in Klang! If you missed out the initial opportunity to snag the commemorative LRT3 stickers, now is your chance!

It is mind-boggling to see the government (Selangor state gov) ordering a gov agency (MBSA) telling a gov-linked company (Prasarana) to do the work that should’ve been done by the said gov agency (MBSA) despite opportunities from multiple delays of the LRT3 project

Part of me genuinely did not anticipate that RapidKL would go out of their way to clarify non-ownership of the recent poster post from me promoting the first LRT3 train ride out of Bandar Utama, which is perhaps the funniest thing to occur out of the online frenzy

Polling to get a sense of potential turnout - if an LRT3 ride-together event was hosted for this Saturday at 15:00 starting at Bandar Utama LRT station, would you be interested to join? It’ll also involve a joyriding an LRT3 feeder bus service and dinner as well

Spotted an LRT3 model owned by fellow train enthusiast Kai Xian on the first LRT train out of Johan Setia yesterday and I can’t help to be a bit cheeky to also put my pamphlet to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the LRT Extension Project today

Throwback to the KTMB’s logo of a free train ride programme when it first launched, which was a reference for me as I made the poster:

06:00 and the gates are up at Bandar Utama! Updating the first day of the line’s public operation here…

Arrived at Bandar Utama and I am reminded how constipated the layout and flow for the LRT3 station is and its connection to the MRT station next door

Let’s go and enjoy the first train service out of Bandar Utama LRT station tomorrow at 06:00! If you happen to spot me wearing a blue hat, you can claim a small piece of transit history from me!

Had the launch event today not been attended by the Prime Minister (whom his security detail would lock down events away from the public), I would probably also be able to toy around this webpage for today's LRT launch…

The Prime Minister has announced, in the closed-door officiating ceremony for LRT3, that there will be free LRT3 train and feeder bus rides for a whole month from tomorrow until 31 of July

The station boxes now also includes the station lines themselves in Apple Maps, but the depiction of the line’s station icons in the bus orange with the line number is distinct from everyone else that simply gets a coloured icon with the station is an odd choice

With the launch of LRT3 occurring right around the corner, the webpage for information on the brand new metro line is still a password-protected page for… reasons

Throwback to a decade ago when the LRT Extensions for the Kelana Jaya and Sri Petaling LRT lines opened to the public on 30 June 2016 The addition of the promotional leaflet into my collection is timed well in reflection of how LRT3 opening next week has no physical pamphlets

It is embarrassing and borderline insulting that a new 38km metro line for the city is instead reduced to a banner that doesn’t even show an opening date or evokes any form of excitement or jubilation other than being a list of stations already visible on the official maps

Barely a month after launching, the Souther Commuter service is drastically slashing ticket prices by half For a rail service that travels as fast as a car and is as expensive as ETS services per kilometre, the pricing strategy for the services never made sense from Day One

It is indeed disturbing that many major interchange stations by RapidKL do not feature a speck of advertising or publicity on the imminent expansion of the rail network So many empty walls with so much wasted potential…

Jug Cerovic, a fantastic mapmaker, had recently released a redesigned Klang Valley transit map that was adapted from the official style A map that’s easier on the eyes, it also diverged from the vernacular and rigid form from circa 2016 that is still stuck in today’s official map

Almost a year ago, Singapore launched the 4th phase of the Thompson-East Coast Line line with a public event and advertised it everywhere in MRT stations and streets Contrast this to LRT3 today, which has no physical advertising anywhere even as the line is opening next week

Perhaps a disappointing aspect of how we choose to open a monumental metro line like LRT3: rather than an open celebration for the public, it is instead an invite-only event hosted at a rail depot vetted by the Prime Minister

Perhaps the strongest indicator that LRT3 will actually open soon is when RapidKL starts to post stuff like this instead of on the original deadlines in March 2025, September 2025, December 2026, or even April 2026

The Class 83 with the Skypark Link livery retained (even after 3 years since it last run), formerly on Northern Commuter duties, would probably be used for the Southern Commuter service, with one of them seen at Kempas Baru depot last week Video by tehsiewdai

A few months ago, the Johor state government under the Public Transport Corporation of Johor (PAJ) had overseen a dry run of the Southern Commuter service between Kempas and Pasir Gudang, using a refurbished Class 81 pulled by a diesel locomotive, which is set to run tomorrow

There is no end towards motorway expansions to pleasing car drivers and undermining public transport usage in the city, with a new elevated motorway between Mont Kiara and Sungai Besi recently approved to carry more traffic than ever to harm places like Brickfields:

Wawasan Sutera's bus riders on 710 were given a nasty price increase surprise, where a ride like mine previously costed 1 MYR is now 1.5 MYR - a 50% increase Worse was the alleged short notice period from late-May to implement the revised fare table that was dated on 2020 [1/4]

Two days ago, I visited Siber Merdeka for a little exhibition by @ernestonpt.bsky.social and hosted by Siber Merdeka. This exhibition is about public transport signage collections, wayfinding, and more.

In an act of great inconvenience to MY50 users, RapidKL has decided this month to discontinue the practice of purchasing the MY50 monthly pass up to 3 days in advance Many MY50 users this month will be up for a rude awakening when they can't renew their passes earlier…

Gallery will open today at 12:00 instead - looking forward to seeing you at Sibermerdeka later today!

Free this weekend? I'm hosting a pop-up exhibition at SiberMerdeka to showcase collected wayfinding signs and my curated creations over the last few years Come for the opening reception on 6th of July from 16:00 to 18:00 to mingle around over signage and transit!

It’s misleading for RapidKL to put an LRT-style wayfinding sign in graphic guide when it does not exist at all anywhere in Chan Sow Lin LRT station Makes you wonder if those in charge of making the graphics has ever ridden the LRT on a daily basis…

Went over to Chan Sow Lin earlier today to check out the overnight operations to lift up the trains While there were flatbed trailers on standby, the operation seems to instead try to realign the derailed LRT set 444 onto the rails once more

The Minister for Transport, Anthony Loke, has visited the incident site for the LRT derailment this morning LRT Set 444 will be decoupled and lifted away via a special rail crane, while regular services will resume by Wednesday, albeit with slow zones on the affected tracks

We have multi-track LRT drifting in Malaysia before LRT3 opened

The Ministry of Transport has formed a special task force to investigate the cause of the LRT derailment this morning, with findings to be made public It also wants to see heads to roll to be directed by Prasarana's Board of Directors on any parties in RapidKL responsible for the incident

As much as I am a LaTeX enjoyer as the next person, using the 𝑓 symbol to signify train frequency is an interesting choice…

The Malaysian Special, a bunch of towers on a 5-10 floor podium entirely taken up by a multi-level parking structure.

Ampang and Sri Petaling LRT lines may not break down as often as the Kelana Jaya LRT line but when it does, it breaks down in the most dramatic fashion possible 2022 Bandaraya incident comes into mind…

You reject the proposal because it’s “overdevelopment” I reject the proposal because it encourages people to drive as it has too much car park spaces in the building rather than walking to Kerinchi LRT station 10 mins away We are not the same

My hopes went way to high than it needs to when I thought that one of the best public transport company in the world has a presence in running the buses of Kuala Lumpur…

Hilariously irrelevant stock photo of the Lembah Subang LRT depot aside, nothing by the state gov has addressed the growing anger on long wait times or the tech inefficiencies associated with DRTs Fixed-route scheduled buses provides more certainty over a van that requires an hour-long wait

Having the two problematic LRT systems on both sides of the causeway to experience disruption in the morning today for unrelated reasons is some surreal kind of an unfortunate coincidence

Anger is indeed surely brewing over the over-reliance of DRT services to replace bus services in KL…

The various shapes and sizes of Hanoi's buses continue to fascinate me Even as they are contracted by the city, the different bus operators carry distinct identity, branding, and with it, differing fleet standards even between various bus routes

KTMB will be adding a new station to its network in Segambut tomorrow, with first service being the 2103 service from Tanjung Malim to KL Sentral at 0634 The last time KTMB opened a new station was on March 13, 2023, when it opened Kajang 2 station

A big ethical concern: this system is now active and being used to track virtually every person in KL from just a face, with or without one’s consent, and no indication of privacy safeguards or even how secure the system is, given historical data breaches by gov agencies

Despite the deficiencies of at-grade railway crossings, seeing a live train crossing the road in person is perhaps the closest urban experience you can get to see a train up close

Hanoi’s Old Quarter may look intimating with motorcycles all parked up on pavements and vehicles zooming around but you realise that everyone and everything merely coexists together, all the fears merely ease away

Seeing Putrajaya Sentral from above in person reveals just how terrible Malaysian planners screw up the land use for a public transport hub surrounding the station as its entirely full of car parks with nothing interesting walkable to the station

Setting the merits of the event aside, it is ironic that opponents are using the argument of traffic congestion when they don’t like the event but didn’t make any fuss when Bukit Bintang was pedestrianised multiple times last year and this year

Absolutely detest the practice of using euphemisms, like phrasing the adjusted timetable as a “improvement” (penambahbaikan) when KTMB clearly nuked all commuter train services and nullifying utility outside of peak hour services