Still dis-intergrated public transport?

The Chief Editor forwarded me this email from an irate commuter in the Klang Valley. This is what he has to say:

Public Transport
1. STAR LRT station to connect to The Mall - covered walkway
2. PWTC to connect to The Mall - underground walkway (yg pelik ada underground to Putra station)
3. Covered walkway from Monorail Medan Tuanku to STAR Sultan Ismail/Sime Darby. There are other stations like this one - not connected by covered walkway.
4. Connect STAR Station and SOGO - covered walkway
5. All outskirt LRT stations should have multi-storey secure carparks, daily rate should be RM1, max. RM2.

Sidewalks
1. All obstruction like lampposts, advertising boards, etc must be removed. Now, to walk you have to be like rugby forward, sidestep here and there. Road sidewalks also must have continuity - not putus putus. Modern cities you can skateboard all the way to your destination.
2.Also, the sidewalk tiles must be maintained - replace with the same type of tiles. Kerbs also must have standard height. How many times have we misjudged and damaged our front bumper due to very high
kerbs.

Center Median of roads/highways
Stop planting ornamental plants - high maintenance. Nobody cares if the road is beautiful. Spend more on road maintenance by getting rid of potholes, uneven patches, damaged kerb.

Public toilets
More stand-alone public toilets and signage pointing to toilets like in London. Mahu kencing pun susah, thank god for kedai mamak. A lot of people let their kids kencing kat tangga i.e. Putra station where got toilet?

Highway design
All roads should exit the highway on the left
All roads should merge on the left also.
Examples:
(a) Now, to exit to Kinrara BK5 if you are coming from Sunway Toll, you exit from the right. You have to slow down in the fast/right lane, then exit using the flyover on your right.
(b) Then the crazy flyover in front of the IOI Mall. Coming from Putrajaya, you stay in the right lane to flyover to Sunway Toll. To go straight or go right you exit left. The correct design, you do
not need the flyover - you exit left to go to Sunway. The lanes going straight, you need a flyover.
(c) Same with the Sungai Besi junction after the Airbase (entering KL). Unnecessary creation of scissor situation. Left want to go right, right want to go left.
(d) Then the stupid bridge near Motorola.
(e) Shah Alam has the best exits - cloverleaf.

Toll Stations
All Smart Tags and Tough n Go lanes should be the rightmost since they are the fastest to clear. During congestions, kena teka pulak which lanes are for the cards.


There you have it. Need I say more? :-)
Yes!!! I still cannot understand the convention in expressway design in this country. I have said this before but one wonders if the guy who designed the highway exits and interchanges ever studied traffic engineering, especially when one has to exit a highway from the fast lane!