Public Transport (T.O.B)

I'm planning to go to office tomorrow using the bus. I try my best to get at least 2 - 3 days of commuting from home to office using public transport. This not only greatly reduce cost of transportation, but also reduces stress and more 'green' then driving my own car. But as have been mentioned so many times, by so many people, in so many mediums, that our public transportation system (especially the bus)is not really people friendly.

Take for example the bus stops, around Klang Valley. You would noticed that the bus stops consist only of a pole and a sign with a bus picture on it. Malaysia having a tropical rain forest climate(as categorised by Koppen climate classification)gets an average precipitation of around 60mm all year long will undoubtedly require a different kind of thinking when it comes to bus stops. Or it could be, that most planners for these bus stops never actually taken a ride on the bus. Which would reasonably answers a lot of questions with regards to their planning skills.

I would assume that people would prefer standing under cover while it's raining than actually stands in the middle of the rain getting soaked. It isn't that great a leap of logic to think that maybe, just maybe that a small shade over the bus stops would be of great benefits to the public. But of course, I wouldn't expect that kind of thinkings to occur with our planners, merely because whatever gray matters that is still retains within their cranium evaporate each time chemical impulse passes through it.