Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan

I had been watching the "progress" or rather the situation at Integrated Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan and cannot help but to wonder how we had trapped ourself into this situation. The assurance given was, the terminal will be at full swing on Jan 2010.

As reported in the paper, as on 18 Jan, only nine out of 51 bus operators had moved use the terminal. The crowd was not there. There seem to be confusion where to go to board the bus.

The terminal is supposed to be very advanced equipped with the modern facilities and technology. Perhaps the peoples are not being given the full story, there are some hidden x-factors and only the rosy news are given to the public. Why are the operators not willing to move??.

I can see two basic issues:

1. The Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan is overbuilt, over costed and overspent.
2. The mindset of the authorities is that of the Master and Slaves. They think that they, the authority are the master, and the buses operators and passengers are the slaves.

1. Over built complex.
Do you really need the expansive terminal with expansive tiles and facilities. I was surprise when I visited Sydney and saw their small monorail. It was small and can be attached to an existing shopping complex. I thought they are being practical, as monorail are for transportation and not meant to win any international awards.

Similarly if we go to London, we see the tubes, there is only one system. Their lines maybe 1000 times longer than us. We can boost of having multisystem, LRT, the Star and will be MRT and monorail and communter and railway. If any awards we can get is the award on the number of system, but at the end it was return to the government to run them.

2. Master and slave relation.
There seem to be surcharges, RM1 plus the rm10 per entry and rm10 for the exit. It seem a small amount,but again we do not know the total revenue and expenses of the buses. The CVLB had given the directive to all the buses concerned to move by 31 Jan.

There seem to be problem on the ticket systems. may be that had been addressed.

I remember the same chaos happened when the terminal of the airport moves to KLIA. Bags were not loaded as the systems fails. The information system failed and passenger do not know where their aircrafts were. Even the pilots were having hard time to find their aircrafts.

However, as I said earlier, these are not the concerned of the Masters, because they main job is to please the bigger MASTER. My perception is, the same problem is being faced by Terminal Bandar Tasik Selatan