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9.3
However, the team has learnt valuable lessons
from each setback and will add these lessons
to their arsenal in its execution of the GTP 2.0
initiatives. For example, one crucial limitation
of the urban public transport system is the
geography of Kuala Lumpur itself. As the city
centre has limited room for growth, any traffic
solution must be implemented within stipulated
boundaries.
In another example, the Integrated Transit
Terminal announced for Gombak has been
delayed owing to land issues. This was another
unforeseen setback, but demonstrated the need
to obtain support from all levels
of Government and the grassroots in strategies.
Finally, there has been difficulty convincing
the rakyat at large to make the switch to public
transport. Greater education and awarenessraising
is necessary on the part of the UPT NKRA
to get the rakyat to give public transport another
chance.
As with any programme of change, the UPT NKRA
has identified a number of instructive lessons from
the execution of GTP 1.0 initiatives. There has been
some resistance to the call for change, and some
points of resistance were not anticipated by the
UPT NKRA team.
With much of the infrastructure and capacity
work implemented in GTP 1.0, the challenge for
the UPT NKRA in GTP 2.0 is to actively increase
public transport’s modal share, i.e., the ratio of
commuters who use public transport against
those who use private vehicles to commute
to the city centre. GTP 1.0 efforts have mostly
been focused on the ‘pull’ factors, i.e., initiatives
to make public transport more attractive to
commuters. While this has proved fruitful, it
has not attracted as many commuters as the
UPT NKRA would have liked. In the GTP 2.0, the
focus of the UPT NKRA is to continue the work
on improving connectivity and reliability while
leveraging on the capacity enhancement that
was carried out in GTP 1.0.
Greater education and
awareness-raising is
necessary on the part of the
UPT NKRA to get the rakyat
to give public transport
another chance.
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