Pay attention to public transportation

ZhiChu Huang
EAP2
July 11, 2008

Pay attention to public transportation

In “Solution to transportation woes” (2008), by Moaz Yusof Ahmad, it explains how to solve the transportation problems and how to improve transportation operation in Malaysia. The Malaysian government wants to improve public transportation this year because it’s necessary and important to citizens. The government’s goal is that people use public transportation instead of private cars in a few years. First, the government wants some people to use public transportation, but people also raise many factors for public transportation’s operation at the same time. The public transportation now is a very incomprehensible problem that connects many factors. The CVLB (a part of the Ministry of Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development) said the public transportation should become a business with benefits. So, maybe government should put public transportation as an economic factor in the future. But, the public transportation should be improved without bureaucracy. In addition, a railway, with many advantages, plays an important role in public transportation. Malaysia also uses a railway to connect its transportation network. Public transportation’s work is not the same as business; their goal is not to earn money; sometimes they also need government’s financial help. LRT (a mass-transit system) is the fast way to transport, but it is impossible to build if in every area. Now, there are still many problems in Malaysia’s public transportation system, so the author hopes these problems should be solved with a bus, which is easily realized and helps the development of the public transportation system in the future.
The development of science and technology affects the people’s transportation form. Private car does not seemed as high status in normal life; maybe sometimes it could be deemed as a burden, in that if brings the terrible traffic, the high-speed rise oil price and so many boring things. So, the public transportation gradually has become an important and necessary element in modern society.

I think the public transportation should get more benefits and subsidies from the government, even though its goal is not profit. So, that could be the first way to solve the public transportation problem, because the public transportation system could affect the whole society’s operation. A good public transportation operates can help relieve traffic pressure. As this result, people can get to work on time and easily plan the normal schedule. People will not waste too much time to tune up or gas up, also they will not be worried that they cannot find parking spaces. In addition, when face an emergency, invalids or wounded people could be sent quickly to hospital because the perfect public transportation system can avoid traffic jams’ occurrence. So, the improvement and perfection of public transportation will affect as well the whole society.

Second, I think there has been a new opinion proposed about environment protection for a few years. The public transportation can to some extent reduce the carbon dioxide’s exhaust caused by the fuel’s burning, because public transportation can reduce the use of many private cars. Although a private car cannot exhaust as much as waste gas as a bus, a car usually cannot have a passage in every seat, so that wastes a lot of space, but the operate of car also use the similar oil as the car run with full of people in every seat, but a bus can take people together. With this reason, the total waste gas discharge used by private cars is much more than that of buses or railways used, and some kinds of public transportation have begun to give up using oil and replacing it with electricity. So, for protecting environment, or for saving oil resource, public transportation can to some degree save space, then save the fuel used, thus reduces the environmental pollution.

The last reason which should be the biggest one is about oil. The second reason was about the fact that oil burning causes environmental pollution, but maybe some people do not care about it; but for oil, there is a very serious problem that makes people have to pay attention that is the high-speed rise of oil price. With the development of economies, more and more people have the ability to afford a car. But people who have cars usually pay attention to the oil price, and the high-speed rise of oil price right now may be the most terrible problem to them. In China, I know people always want to save much money for oil, and at this time, the developed public transportation system satisfies people and provides them a convenient transport network. So, that is the reason some people in China have begun to use bus, railway or other public transport networks instead of their cars.

In conclusion, the public transportation is not only a convenient vehicle for people, but also is an important and necessary element of the high-speed development in the modern society. A good public transportation system can to some extent control the traffic jam caused by larger population daily, reduce the environment pollution and also can steady the high-speed increase in oil price. So, from each side, government should pay attention to public transportation, thus improving and perfecting public transportation now is very important and necessary.



Reference

Ahmad, M. (2007, September 7). Solution of transportation woes. New Straits Times(Malaysia). Retrieved June 10, 2008, from LexisNexis.