MRT's July Groundbreaking Raises Hopes for an Improved Public Transport System

Syarikat Prasarana Group Managing Director Shahril Mokthar talks about how the new MRT might address previous complaints of unreliability, delays, breakdowns and poor feeder bus service services and comments on the following;
How it aims to benchmark Singapore and HK in terms of service;
Time frame for completion of all LRT and MRT works in the Klang Valley;
Cost estimates, overrun estimates and the permutations;
Criticisms as regards the lack of competing proposals to build the MRT;
And of leakages;
Plans to incentivise greater use of public transport systems;
Plans to integrate the three major lines: Ampang Line, Kelana Jaya Line and Monorail at three stations: Masjid Jamek, Titiwangsa and Hang Tuah by the third quarter of this year;
In Singapore and Hong Kong transportation systems are fully integrated with one card and when KL will implement the same integrated system;
Reports that Prasarana will be allocated a parcel of land in the proposed Sungai Buloh Rubber Research Institute Malaysia (RRIM) development project for commercial development as part of the “rail plus property” model;
Reports which also say that punitive action can be taken against Syarikat Prasarana, if it fails to implement measures to mitigate the environmental impacts caused by the proposed Klang Valley MRT;
The criteria Prasarana takes in deciding whether to go overground or underground;
Its financial position;
And that Prasarana is being subsidised in the forms of fuel subsidy;