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Signboard of the under construction Segambut Utara KTM station

KTM Segambut Utara station building. It is a typical new KTM Komuter station design seen on Batu Caves line.

I just found out there's a new KTM Komuter station (Segambut Utara)

So... I went there to take some pics 📸

PJ folk object to MRT3 alignment proposal A PROPOSAL to bring the MRT3 alignment into parts of Petaling Jaya, Selangor, has drawn objections from some residents over health and environmental concerns.

“Also, PJ Sentral is already served by (Asia Jaya and Taman Jaya) LRT stations. Why does it need more public transportation?”

Imagine complaining about MORE public transportation serving your area. NIMBYism is a disease.

www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-...

A food bazaar inside a Bangkok mall which is selling halal grill, Thai asam laksa, and braised pork

A food bazaar inside a Bangkok malls which sells meat skewers (daging cucuk) and fried fritters (keropok lekor, corn dog, fish fingers, etc)

Street food kiosks + air cond is such a 10/10 idea that I'm surprised no (or barely any) Malaysian malls do it

฿10 meat skewer, ฿60 laksa, ฿20 savoury apam balik, ฿30 sliced fruit, ฿20 iced tea

I'm OBSESSED

Transit layer of Apple Maps in Peninsular Malaysia. It shows KTM network when it's zoomed out

Transit layer of Apple Maps in central KL. It shows all rail lines when it's zoomed out

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Apple Maps now support transit layer in Malaysia

If you ask me, all large museums (especially state and national ones) should be 3-star to count as a proper museum.

Local/Small museums? 2-star minimum.

So, what does the tier means?
3-star: HIGHLY recommended to everyone. This is how museums should look like
2-star: Good enough that I will bring my family here
1-star: Passable, recommended ONLY if you're a museum nerd
Just skip: Terrible museum curation or building condition

A table of ratings of museums in Selangor and KL. Example of 3-star museums are Muzium Bank Negara and Muzium Kesenian Islam. Example of 2-star museums are Muzium Polis and Balai Seni Negara. Example of 1-star museums are Memorial Tun Hussein Onn and Muzium Selangor. Example of "Just skip" museums are Muzium Kuala Selangor and Memorial Negarawan

I've visited all 36 public museums in Selangor and KL, here's a tier list from best to worst museums in the region:

(Green text is free admission)

RapidKL Rail’s Lifts service status table sorted by LRT/MRT lines. All 448 lifts on the network are working. An exception is the 18 lifts that is taken out-of-service for upgrading works.

RapidKL Rail’s Escalator service status table sorted by LRT/MRT lines. All 553 escalators on the network are working with the exception of 1 escalator on KL Monorail undergoing infrastructure upgrading.

🎉 GREAT NEWS 🎉

For the first time since RapidKL published their weekly report in mid-2023, all of their escalators AND lifts are functional (read: none were broken for more than a week).

List of speculative station locations for KTM Komuter Pasir Gudang Line. The stations are: Plentong, Seri Alam, Kota Masai, and Pasir Gudang

To celebrate the news, I've drawn out possible stations for the Pasir Gudang Komuter:
theedgemalaysia.com/node/754697

Gombak LRT station at platform level looking down to concourse level. There is only one escalator with space to add another one.

Gombak bus terminal has opened and soon, the ECRL station

When will RapidKL add another escalator to the Gombak LRT station?

Passenger Statistics for Indonesia HSR of which there are 8.5 million passengers as of April 2025 with 96% of them are Indonesians. Malaysians only make up 1.8% of the total (or 44% of foreign passengers).

It's so funny that a lot of Malaysians think we're singlehandedly propping the Indonesia HSR alive when the data itself tells a very different story

.... no, Indonesians DO ride the HSR. More than entire ridership of ETS even.

An abandoned building, possibly a mall, located right next to LRT3 Bandar Bukit Tinggi station

Transit-Oriented UrbEx

You want to go to Aeon Mall via LRT?

Fuck you do a 10 min detour crossing the same 4-lane road twice

LRT3 Bandar Bukit Tinggi station being right in front of Aeon Mall Bukit Tinggi

No direct access from the LRT3 station from the Aeon Mall. The nearest exit forces you to walk 100m across the road.

RapidKL, why???? So close 😭😭😭

Timetable of SPG3 bus. There are 6 trips per direction per day. From Cyberjaya: 8:10am, 12:10pm, 12:40pm, 4:10pm, 5:30pm, 8:10pm From Pekan Salak: 6:10am, 10:10am, 10:40pm, 2:10pm, 2:40pm, 6:10pm

Timetable of SPG4 bus. There are 8 trips per direction per day. From IOI City Mall: 8:10am, 11:00am, 12:00am, 2:20pm, 3:20pm, 5:40pm, 6:40pm, 9:00pm From BB Salak Tinggi: 6:30am, 9:20am, 10:20am, 12:40pm, 1:40pm, 4:00pm. 5:00pm, 7:20pm

Look at this frequency. Even RapidKL buses to middle-of-nowhere Batu 12 Gombak OR Pangsun, Hulu Langat are >3x more frequent than this

Notis Penamatan Adalah dimaklumkan bahawa perkhidmatan bas Smart Selangor (Bas Percuma) Majlis Perbandaran Sepang Laluan SPG3 & SPG4 akan ditamatkan pada 31 Mac 2025

🔊 BREAKING NEWS 🔊

MPSepang is shutting down half of its Smart Selangor bus network on March 31st:
SPG3 - Cyberjaya to Jenderam Hilir
SPG4 - IOI City Mall to Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi

I very much am a critic of the bus because it's extremely infrequent (how bad? KTM is better)

Canary in the coal mine is at least they're restarting the TOD project at the LRT Ara Damansara station

....yippie????? but at what cost?

Update:
ADUN probably only cared about this issue NOW because the developer made a noise about it

The developer got their wish and close down this footpath and try very hard to block it

Problem: People still walk here. So now it becomes 10x more dangerous for the pedestrians

Dimly lit corridor of a shoplot with a cluttered desk, old CRT computers, and paper debris. On the left wall there is a blank yellow A2-sized paper and four window in the style of horizontal window panes commonly found in older Malaysian buildings. On the right wall there is a blue door, some hanging posters, and a old circuit breaker. In the distance, the area is brighter with a bookshelf with reams of paper, and two closed doors.

Life Update 🌴

Haven't tweeted much in the past few months because I’ve been busy being an urbanist: restoring an old shoplot in central KL to be converted to a third space.

A huge crowd of people waiting for the Komuter train at Batu Caves station during Thaipusam

We need more Komuter trains

And I with hundreds of other pedestrians will continue ignoring the sign because:
1. It's legally questionable (not JKR standard)
2. The alternative will almost double our walking time

Instead of constructing a proper sidewalk, the authorities instead chose the easiest (and cowardly option):
Banning pedestrians

10/10 no notes /s

One trick that KL has up its sleeve is that most new residential development are ultra-dense. We're talking >1000 units that's for families.

Almost every other MRT station has (or will have) one like this.

charts/2025-01-18_ridership at main · Thevesh/charts Open-sourced code + data to produce some charts!

You can look at the source code here:
https://thev.cloud/code-ridership

Table of RapidKL stations with highest ridership for 2024 plus its 2023 data. The 10 stations are: 1. Bukit Bintang (MRT) 2. KLCC 3. KL Sentral (LRT) 4. Pasar Seni 5. Tun Razak Exchange 6. Masjid Jamek 7. Maluri 8. Ampang Park (LRT) 9. Abdullah Hukum 10. Bukit Bintang (Monorail)

In terms of station statistics, here are the top 10 busiest LRT, MRT, or Monorail stations in 2024

Of course all of them are in KL CBD and they have huge attractors: megamalls, offices, and/or tourist hotspot. And all of them saw huge increase in ridership (except Masjid Jamek)

A collection of grouped bar charts titled Average daily LRT, MRT & Monorail Ridership by Day of Week (2019-2024). Each chart representing each rail line that is LRT Kelana Jaya, LRT Ampang, MRT Kajang, and Monorail.

Ridership is still very much commuter oriented with weekdays carrying 50% more riders than weekends in 2024. Covid still made an impact to this model where weekday ridership for the LRTs are still struggling while weekend ridership have fully recovered from Covid.

A line chart titled Weekday Average Ridership on LRT, MRT, and Monorail. The subtitle note reads: Daily average helps account for different days in each month. There are 5 lines on the chart representing each rail line. The legend, denoting December 2024 ridership data is as follows: KJL (colored pink) - 278.3k KGL (colored dark green) - 274.5k SPAGL (colored orange) - 205.9k PYL (colored yellow) - 163.8k MRL (colored green) - 62.1k

In terms of average weekday ridership, RapidKL is still below the 1 million mark (995k in Nov 2024), sadly.

Analyzing by line:
KGL now being neck-and-neck with KJL (275k vs 278k)
PYL grew 44% from 105k to 151k
KJL is still wayyy below pre-Covid (315k vs 278k)

A collection of 5 line charts titled Monthly Ridership on LRT, MRT, MOnorail (2019-2024). It is separated into two groups on whether ridership has recovered to pre-Covid levels or not. Red denotes not yet recovered which includes LRT Kelana Jaya and LRT Ampang. Blue denotes ridership above pre-Covid levels which includes MRT Kajang, MRT Putrajaya, and KL Monorail.

Broken down by each line, the MRTs and KL Monorail are seeing explosive growth, while the LRTs are growing but still below pre-Covid

Special note:
PYL saw the biggest y-o-y gain of 44% since Phase 2
KGL is up 32% from pre-Covid and has surpassed KJL
MRL is up 60% since Covid

Line chart of monthly ridership on RapidKL Rail from 2019 to 2024. The subtitle note reads: difference number of days in months leads to fluctuations. The chart has two lines: total (colored red) and total without PYL (MRT2; colored blue). The line diverged after the opening of PYL in mid-2022. The last point (denoting December 2024 data) is showing total ridership of 27.55 million and 23.08 million without PYL.

2024 is another fantastic year for RapidKL with y-o-y increase of 26%. For the first time, RapidKL has breached the 300 million passengers mark, breaking all previous records 🎉 🎉 🎉

Even if we exclude PYL (MRT2), RapidKL still surpassed pre-Covid numbers by 7%.

RapidKL rail ridership overview for 2024. In the dashboard is the headline number of December's ridership and a table of monthly ridership broken down by line for the year 2024.

2024 ridership data for RapidKL is now out. 🧵 making sense of the data

Spoiler: It's a banger year for RapidKL