Thank God we’re not public transport users 🙂
Oh we used to. I took komuter from Kepong to KL Sentral, & took LRT Putra from KL Sentral to my workplace.
It is in our list to bring the kids to ride the train (komuter/lrt/simply KTM express), so the previous weekend we took them to Amcorp Mall by Putra LRT. Park our car at Setiawangsa station (it’s a carpark there charged RM2.50 per entry but we got it FOC for weekend (?)), and bought a ticket to Taman Jaya (Abiy got his Zing Card and the kids got free ride).
It was not so many people in the train. I guess people are not using the LRT during weekend, only on weekdays to go to work, perhaps. After all it is more convenience to travel by car because not all interesting places located in the LRT boundary.
Even though not so many people but there are still no empty seat. I guess somebody would be prihatin seeing me holding a baby (Hafiy was in the stroller and we have only one stroller) but gladly all of them just buat-buat tak nampak je LOL. I stood very near to the seats with this sign:
pic credit to GulupGulup.
Impossible those young ladies and gentlemen didn’t see me and Fahry. Or maybe because ‘Lady with Baby’ is not included in the signboard, kah kah kah.
Fortunately after few stations there were few seats available after some passengers went out.
Hafiy came out from his stroller to give way to Fahry and he stood on the sit beside me to see the scenery. Hafiy was very afraid to enter the train, I guess because of the noise but later after seeing cars on the road, he caught up the mood.
We ended up at Taman Jaya station, which is near Amcorp Mall. Putra LRT provides elevator for OKU (and of course stroller too) but it doesn’t has stroller path from the station to the main road. SO we had to usung Fahry with the stroller down the stairs.
It was a business fair in Amcorp Mall, I wasn’t sure what but I saw lots of Simplified.Com posters everywhere.
We went to Popular Book Store but the boys started to be cranky. Usually I brought their bottles but this time I forgot and since old mall building doesn’t has baby room so we went back to the LRT.
Fahry was sleeping while Hafiy was clinging on Abiy. Luckily a lady with stroller (who was happen to be a mother too) offered her seat to Abiy.
That was make me thinking, maybe because some people who are not prihatin, it is not because they don’t but because they can’t feel how urgent and why there is signs and special seats for some special people. Only mother knows how it feels to be pregnant and holding a baby while travelling in public transport. Only elder knows how to be old and travelling 🙂
On top of that, it was fun riding the train with kids, cos both of us were free to entertain them, rather than driving, only me who has hands to handle them. Don’t forget to disinfect ours and their hands too!
Putra LRT is the best transit service I ever used!
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