Kota Kinabalu: Public transport ferrying commuters from destinations like Tuaran and Tamparuli should be permitted to drop off passengers at certain bus stops or lay-bys in the city.
Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Tuaran Secretary, Jumin Jeffrey Masuling, said disembarking passengers at bus stops such as near the site of the former Cathay Cinema and near Wisma Kebudayaan in Asia City would not rob the City Bus of passengers.
He added that the working commuters would still take the City Bus shuttle service to the Wawasan bus terminal to go back home.
He said the newly-launched shuttle service plying the various routes of the Central Business District (CBD) area was causing more inconvenience to commuters, especially from distant places.
The Tuaran and Tamparuli public transport, comprising minibuses, handles about 3,000 commuters to the city every day and more than half are working at various parts in the State capital.
Many of these commuters are working in offices, shopping complexes, post office, public library, hotels and banks within the CBD.
Prior to the new shuttle service, they used to disembark at the two bus stops near the former cinema and in front of Wisma Kebudayaan in Asia City.
Now all the commuters are taken direct to the bus terminal near Wawasan Plaza and from there they have to take the City Bus shuttle back to the CBD to arrive at their respective places of work.
They have to pay RM1 in extra bus fares every day because they have to pay 50 sen from the terminal to the city and then another 50 sen from the city to the terminal.
"This is certainly not helping those who earn small salaries and there are many such people like those working as helpers in retail shops and even those who work in offices," said one commuter who wished to be identified only as Samsudin, from Tuaran, who works in a government office here.
Masuling said the new shuttle service is in effect squeezing money from the public whose monthly earnings are hardly enough to make ends meet.
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