MALAYSIA:State to Run City Buses as Privatisation Fails
Penang,Malaysia -Inter Press Service (subscription -Rome,Italy), by Anil Netto -Mar 12, 2007: -- A state-owned bus company is set to take over public transport in this traffic-clogged northern state after a concerted civil society campaign highlighted the failure of the existing privatised, deregulated bus service. But public transport campaigners are not about to celebrate... They are wary of a federal-level firm, albeit government-owned, coming in to manage what is essentially a state-level metropolitan bus service. Earlier with the lack of enforcement by a federal-level regulatory board has not inspired confidence that an ‘imported' solution is best. In a way, the failure of the privatised, deregulated model in Penang mirrors what happened in the national capital of Kuala Lumpur, where the public transport system, privatised in piecemeal fashion to well connected firms, flopped spectacularly... These private firms, which ran the bus services and light rail transit systems in the Kuala Lumpur area, chalked up huge losses largely as a result of a lack of integration among the different services and poor coordination and enforcement...
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