welcome rapid penang!

hey, whaddya know… my letter was published in malaysiakini. first time it was published. er… that was my first time writing to malaysiakini anyway. haha. well, apart from malaysiakini, i had actually also sent my letter to other media like the star, sun2surf, and even the chinese media like kwong wah, oriental daily. don’t know if my letter will be published in the other media yet. let’s wait and see. btw, read the full, unedited version of what i had written here.

actually how i came about to write the letter was when during our office lunch, i was telling my colleague, joachim xavier, about how i was chased down from the bus i boarded when the drive suddenly decided not to go to my destination. joachim at once said i should write about this experience to the media, and at the same time mentioned that the existing bus companies shouldn’t be allowed to operate once rapid penang takes over. joachim himself, on 26 feb. had a letter in malaysiakini published too where he told the existing bus operators to pack up and leave!

many people had offered their views here and there (writing to media or in their own blogs) regarding the takeover of rapid kl to manage penang’s bus system. some are for it and some are against it. one such person is one of my favourite blogger, ktemoc. in his post, he actually talked more on how our CM, dr koh (that is ‘raja bodek’ to him!) scooped so low as to request rapid KL to take over penang.

ktemoc also pointed out the view of ong, who raised another different issue… not whether rapid kl should take over, or whether rapid kl will do a good job, or whether existing penang buses should stop or continue once rapid penang is here (which was what i raised). ong pointed out that by allowing rapid kl to manage the bus system, it shows the weakness in raja bodek… er… CM dr koh’s government. of course i can’t deny that, that is true indeed but i’m looking more on the bus commuters (like me) side. read my comments on that post of ktemoc.

(if ong read this, i’m sure he will come blazing in with his views… which yes i know contrast mine)

all these talk about penang’s government being weak in requesting rapid kl to take over, and rapid kl ‘ cronies connections’  (UMNO!!), are political. while there are some rakyat who wants to go political, all fine and well… but for the bus commuters like ah chong, samy, ahmad, ah lian, letchumi, faridah and lulai (that is me lah – handle i like to use on the net – a combination of my first name and surname), we had suffered long enough and we don’t give a damn to politics!! i’m keeping my fingers crossed, and be optimistic, that rapid penang will do a good job.