Update on **14 July 2015**
Recently, I had the opportunity to ride the ETS train from Alor Setar to Kuala Lumpur. The journey took around 5 hours.
I choose to depart from Alor Setar KTM station
I arrived there on 2 pm and less crowd over there
Bought the ETS train tickets that will depart on 4.30 pm from counter 2 that charged RM 73.
According to the ticket lady, there was only 1 train that run from KL central to Alor Setar on 4.30 pm everyday. The ETS train will reach KL central on 9.15 pm. You might click (H.E.R.E) for further information about the ETS train schedules. It's allowed to book the ETS train tickets through calling center and claimed the ETS train ticket later in the KTM ticket counter in Alor Setar.
The train arrived "on time"
Clean environment and spacious train seat of Koc F. Luckily I was assigned to Koc F (last part of train) which was less crowd compared to others Koc.
For you information, It had 6 koc: Koc A, Koc B, Koc C, Koc D, Koc E & Koc F. Cafe that sold foods (e.g burgers, fried mee, nasi lemak, fried beehon, sandwiches, hot tea, hot milo) was located in Koc C while toilets was situated in Koc D.
What I like:
1. enhance the convenience travel to KL by shortening the journey compared bus
2. very short period of times in getting the passengers at the each train stop
3. the train was come on time. It didn't waste the precious times of the passengers
4. comfortable environment of the train
5. concern the basic needs of passengers and providing cafe and toilets
6. enjoy the breathtaking scenery view along the journey. I never expect such a beautiful view which was similar to train experiences in Hua Lian from Taipei, Taiwan.
What I dislike:
1. lack of food choices in the train cafe.
Pillow talk
As a Sarawakian, I was quite jealous for the development of public transportation in Peninsular Malaysia. Their public transportation such as Rapid buses, various long journey buses & train services in terms of bus frequency and bus conditions were better than Sarawak. It brought the convenience for the residents of Peninsular Malaysia in travelling.
In contrast, the public transport facilities (i.e public city bus) in Sarawak indeed lack of development. Big cities in Sarawak like Kuching, Miri and Sibu definitely had better public city bus but still cannot compared with Rapid buses in Peninsular Malaysia in terms of bus conditions and times schedules. The public city buses that found in Kuching and Miri looked old and dirty with heavy engines sounds. For those who didn't afford to have a car like me, I forced to bear with it as long as I reached the destinations. Besides that, the not-so frequent public city bus also contributed Sarawakians owned the cars because it took longer times to wait a bus. It's quite stressful to wait the upcoming in the bus station. I bet the people who had the private car would not understand the feeling and difficulties in waiting the bus.
Meanwhile, for the small district like Betong and Sri Aman, there was totally none of any buses that connect between the small district. Therefore, Sarawakians really depended on their own private transportation to go to Betong and Sri Aman. Moreover, the super rural areas in Sarawak also zero public buses because the rural areas cannot accessed by the road. Water transportation was the only method of the rural folks in going to the nearest town. They strived hard to out of their "kampung" for education, handling bank and government stuffs and then back to "kampung" again with difficult journey. It was so difficult just for handling the stuffs.
I hope the government will help us by solving the public transportation issues of Sarawak in the future.
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