Call me bigot or stereotyper but there is politician with certain traits that I find annoying whenever he / she makes statements in the press. I am biased at times (guilty as charged!) but I just can't see the relevance between the statement made with the issue that is being handled / discussed.
Is my intelligence slipped down the drain or is it my reasoning ability that failed on me. Am I out of my mind? Last I check, I am pretty much a sane person so is must be the politician's problem.
Unless what he said was wrongfully quoted in the news, otherwise I have this to say to him: Nazri, you are one politician with peanut-sized brain (or no brain at all). It is the world greatest mystery that you are a minister. You are so laughable with your statement you beat Jim Carry even without making a joke.
Damn, this sort of thing only happen in Bolehland.
Rakyat, don't blame on the public transport operators that you get bad services all this while because our transport fares are low and the public transport operation costs have been increasing. On top of that, the Government cannot take action on public transport operators who give bad services to us NOW because they are providing the service at the very low fares. With the increases, Government can take action on transport operators when they give bad service to us. Huh? What? Yeah, you read me right. That's exactly what was said by Nazri.
If I said something like that to my boss, I would be sacked immediately.
Statement 1: Increasing operation costs over the years.
Generally I agree with this statement even though there is no statistical report or factual data to substantiate this claim. The fact is prices of raw material have gone up so inevitably the increase in the operation costs on the part of services / finished goods for end users / consumers.
Statement 2: Increasing operation costs + low public transport fares.
Low public transport fares! Good for you that you don't come out with the blood-vomiting excuse such as our fares is still the lowest than country A, B, C, and D made popular by your brainless counterparts. You are no better anyway.
I would like to know on what basis that you claim that the public transport fares have been low? On what ground you conclude that the drivers' salary have gone up? When you said the last increase on the public transport fares was 1 May 2005, do you refer to LRT fares? bus fares? taxi fares? what fares? I have been using public transports. LRT has gone up a few times without informing the commuters and at the current charges and service, they suck big time. Bus fares have gone up too after May 2005. I am not so sure of the last taxi fares increase but when you claim that the taxi fares is low, why are there people want to work as a taxi driver and it looks like the taxi licences will be increased in view of huge number of retrenchment. Let's not kid ourselves that the taxi fares is low. Guess how much is the fares for 15km or less between my house in Melaka and Melaka Hospital? RM25. You called that cheap?!
Statement 3: Increasing operation costs + low public transport fares = bad public transport services.
Screw you! Public transport fares have never been low and commuters are still getting bad transportation services ALL THE TIME.
The bus services are erratic and unreliable and sometimes, they never show up at all. This is a common occurrence. Complaints after complaints from public but what are the improvements? Promise after promise made by bus operators but they never happen. Transport Minister has been sleeping one after another.
The service of LRT / train has never been upgraded over the years. There are huge crowds at the peak times but sadly, the only "service" that we get is the shouting of security guards at the station "Masuk lagi! Lagi masuk sikit! Tolong masuk sikit! Orang lain nak balik juga!" You pay the fares but you get to be squeezed by other passengers uncomfortably. Do you not think that is huge crowd of passengers in every LRT station? Seriously, we pay the fares for travel comfort, not to be feel like a can of sardine.
The cab drivers are the worst. How many times I had been turned down by cab driver on blood-vomiting excuses like 'Sana jam. Tak pergi.", "Ohh, Saya tak pergi sana la." I feel like give them a big slap on the face most of the time. They just drove pass you even there is no passenger in the cab? It is not that they don't have business but they REFUSE business!
I hardly use train /KTM so no comments on that.
Statement 4: Increasing operation costs + low public transport fares = bad public services. So government needs to help public transport operators to increase fares = public transport service can be improved and action can be taken if service not up to expectation.
What the fuck! The fact is most of the Companies in Malaysia are facing the same situations here - increasing operational costs - but that don't give them any excuses to provide bad services to the customer. In fact, this is the time they need to better their service so that customers are happy and keep coming back to them. Some even go the extra miles to introduce lower fares in order to stay afloat in times of fierce competition and bad economy. In business sense of the world, the strongest survives and weakest falls. If those public transportation companies are unable keep up with the customers' expectations and service standards. They can fold and then leave the market / industry. There are other companies wiling to take up the void and ready to provide reasonable services. There are huge monetary returns if one company is care enough to provide reasonable service to the commuters.
Let's no argue with the fact that there are HUGE numbers of passengers / commuters that relies on buses, cabs, trains, and LRT to commute daily within and in and out of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and central region. Go survey at the bus stations, train stations, and LRT stations you would be surely surprised at the huge crowd and then ask them what they think about the transport services. I am sure that high percentage would tell you that currently, the service sucks big time and ask them again has the transport service improved over the year? Have them been happy at all or noticed the so called 'improvement' in public transport services that the Government / Transport operators promised over and over again. They would tell you NO! A BIG NO! I do not have the numbers to back me up on this but I can tell you this confidently because I am the user so are my friends and friends' friends. Do you dare to conduct a survey on satisfaction level of public on transport services?
Regardless of the fares, it is a reasonable expectation that Government takes whatever action necessary (within its power) when it comes to handling bad public transport services. Do you mean that we Rakyat cannot depend on Government to intervene and take action when we made complaints about the bad services? From the Rakyat's perspective, that doesn't make sense right, Nazri? Why do we need you for at the first place?
Don't get your role confused! You are supposed to be helping Rakyat to get things improved not the other way around.
Be careful with what you have to say because whatever you say, it is reflective of your level of maturity, intelligence, and capability in handling national matters. Sadly, you failed miserably.
Don't get me wrong. I do not oppose increase in public transport fares if it is properly justified.
By the way, I have not seen the Transport Minister has been effective in his role.
