Decide to head into KL again today, and plan to get the train from Kelang Jaya to Kuala Lumpur Sentral, and change onto the monorail to get to Bukit Bintang, the main shopping area - I was after a GPS from one of the shopping malls there, Low Yat. The transport system here is OK actually (and air conditioned!) but for some reason, no-one’s thought about integrating the various components: KL Railways with Kommutor Trains with Monorail, and you have to buy individual single journey tickets for each, as far as I can tell. It’s like each of the providers don’t want you to use, or even to acknowledge the existence of, the others, even though they all serve completely different parts of town. For example, the KL Sentral Monorail stop at KL Sentral is only signposted by a piece of paper flapping in the wind, and even then you have to walk miles through a building site to get to the stop, only to be confronted by the most horrendous “queue” for tickets as the concept of an automated ticket machine seems alien.
As is the concept of a queue alien – a bit like queuing for a bus in Brixton, and in my ticket rabble to get the Monorail to Bukit Bintang from KL Sentral I was already drafting a letter in my mind to the Minister of Transport to complain: however, my assignment here doesn’t really cover the travel infrastructure, so I mentally tore the letter up.
In my haste to get into town I nearly ended up the wrong train - I needed to go towards Titiwangsa...(seriously!):
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