Imagine getting the cheapest, secondhand car you could find with the sole purpose of leaving it at a free parking spot nearest to your destination MRT station i.e. your workplace.
Then you can commute daily to your nearby home MRT station (through various means i.e. your "primary" car, hitching a ride with someone at your home, feeder bus), take the MRT to your destination station i.e. workplace, then take that car on the short drive to/from your workplace.
Heck you could even share this car with your colleagues or whomever as like a personal bus, granted, they're on a similar schedule.
Dk if this is a big brain move, T20 move, or something else entirely.
@rakyat DEFINITELY!! I've been seeing some really neat proposals by our own people on slowly fixing this for some stations - it's clear that our enthusiasts are more brilliant than anyone with actual power/resources, they just need someone to listen to them (which is somehow so hard to do).
I'd suggest leaving a bicycle instead but I feel like you could die from that in Malaysia either due to heat stroke bcos of the complete absence of tree canopies, or just unsafe roads for cyclists and pedestrians lol.
You could also just take the bus (IF that's even an option), but I don't think that's really the Malaysian mindset (perhaps unless your daily commute is right in the centre of KL, but unlikely) bcos of the reliance on a public service - which often are simply unreliable. You could argue this for trains too, but trains at least aren't affected by Malaysian roads that are not only prone to heavy traffic but also floods caused by heavy rain and piss poor drainage system.
@irfan
At one time, I got the cheapest n-th hand Honda Civic for my daily commute. It was great... until it got stolen and found abandoned. A few months later, it started having horrible engine knocks and the mechanic announced it as good as dead soon...
Really cheap old cars aren't necessarily the best option.
@anianimalsmoe oh yes, I agree not to do this as your primary mode of transportation - theft aside, cars are incredibly expensive to maintain so having it not break is too important.
This (totally not serious) situation I'm theorising is a lot more specific whereby the distance between the destination train station and the actual destination are close enough for a really short drive (~1-2km one way), but long/unsafe enough to not make walking viable. So that cheap car really is used for the very short last mile connection to your destination, and from said destination back to the train station - daily.
but yea haha how "brilliant" this idea is ultimately boils down to just how "cheap" really can you get this car for and how low maintenance it is.
@anianimalsmoe oh yes, this is also another very important bit which again applies for this very particular scenario I have in mind (for the longest time, to not make me consider otherwise), but unlikely to be applicable in most other scenarios haha.
All in all, the root issue is still how bad the last mile connectivity is here for people who rely on public transportation. In the end, you're almost always forced to get an e-hailing service (i.e. Grab, Uber) to get to your destination from the nearest train station - which is ofc, expensive, which incentivises you to just drive yourself, which then just causes heavy traffic.
Such a pain in the ass. Being in a country that does not expect you to own a car and drive is truly a privilege.