I Somehow Find You and I Collide
how safe is our lrt?
after yesterday’s collision incident at 6.30pm involvin 2 lrt trains 200m from the bukit jalil station which caused 6 injuries, many of you would started doubtin our light rail transit service.
let’s ponder for a moment about the above question. to date, there’s been 1 accidental overshoot and 1 collision on the ampang line (formerly known as star).
the kelana jaya line (formerly known as putra) has had no collisions or accidents involving personal injury except computer glitch which caused trains to stall.
as for keretapi tanah melayu berhad, there’s been a train derailment with at least 1 death and 12 injuries.
but hey, all these happened over a period of more than 10 years, with millions of passengers served and millions of kilometres travelled! if compared to other public transports, the lrt is safer, if not perfectly safe, than everythin else.
even technologically advance countries like singapore cannot avoid train accidents. on 5th august 1993, 2 trains collided at clementi station after operatin for only 6 years because of an oil spillage on the track, which resulted in 132 injuries.
there, did i answer the question?
September 25th, 2008 at 7:10 PM
well putra lrt is sth that we can be proud of…its route is pretty questionable as it has stations at some weird places with not many passangers, and at some did not cover as many ‘hot’ places that its supposed to….but back then it’s state of the art driverless computer thingy is pretty big…at that time singapore’s still using man powered mrt trains…thats why putra is the most punctual of all the other lrt’s….the shittiest….KTM Komuter!
February 10th, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Hi, cool site, good writing