LETTER | It is a pseudo-conflict to pit the building of public transport versus the construction of a road network.
| Earlier this week I was in a working group organized by the Penang Green Council on the topic on sustainable mobility and connectivity. The objective of the group is to prepare an official recommendation to the state authorities.
This should not surprise anyone as it is common for experts to disagree among themselves. One just needs to read enough doctoral theses to know that it is necessary for each expert to outsmart every other expert. The consultant questioned PTMP for its multidimensional approach that includes the building of an inter-modal public transport system and the construction of a traffic dispersal network. With all his tirade against the latter, it seems that his alternative plan for PTMP is to stop building roads.
When Singapore started their congestion charges, there was already a widely used public transport system in place . The consultant also questions the PTMP for its inter-modal public transport system that consists of LRT, monorail, tram, BRT and sky cab. This is odd as cities with high number of public transport usage have inter-modal system.
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