Well hello there readers! I see you managed to have some time to wander here although the last entry was a good 2 months ago. Since you’ve already arrived, I shall bore you with useless knowledge which you probably would have known by now because I’m gonna talk about the pros and cons of the LRT!
“OH! JOY! What a wonderful topic!” *Now, now, don’t have to be sarcastic*
I’m gonna write ’bout it cause yours truly am considering ditching a drive to work for a fuss free LRT ride to work.
The LRTs chasing each other?
So let’s get to the good old pros and cons shall we?
Pros
1. 2014 for me, hasn’t been a good year for driving
– Mid January , I hit a branch and dented the back of my car
– A week later, I scratched the side of the car with a shopping mall parking lot pillar *le sigh…..*
– 2 weeks ago, my car overheated
– Today, my car got hit at the parking lot by a lousy driver, who probably was trying to reverse park but failed miserably and hit my car and left it there like that without leaving a number. Just wonderful.
As you would have guessed, my car seems to be in a pretty bad shape with an average of slightly more than 1 incident a month. Odds aren’t very good.
2. The accountant in me says I’ll save money.
Cost of taking the car to work:
– Parking = RM120/month (RM6/day x 20 working days)
– Petrol = RM210/month (RM70/refuel x 3 avg refuels/month)
– Total = RM320/month
Cost of taking LRT to work:
– RM84/month and a lot of parents good faith (RM4.20/day x 20 working days)
Savings = RM236/month = RM2,832/year!
My oh my, I could buy a telescope with that money (which I said I wanted since I was in High School)! AND I haven’t taken into account car maintenance cost!
A telescope like Do Min Joon (from You Who Came From the Stars)?
3. I get regular exercise by walking from the station to my office
4. I can avoid those dreaded jams! Especially the horrid Friday ones
Of course I’m not going through that crazy traffic jam on the right. But it’s extremely similar.
5. It reduces my carbon foot print!
Cons
1. A major lack of freedom to move about
2. The reliance on my lovely parents to drop & pick me up from the station. At my age, it’s kinda sad. 😮
3. I may get pick pocketed on the LRT if I was caught off guard (stoning or napping)
4. Carrying a heavy laptop in the LRT isn’t the coolest thing ever. It’s heavy!
5. I’ll constantly be facing a moral dilemma of whether to sit at that empty row of priority seating dedicated to the needy when there are no needy people around. “No one’s around, should I sit? Should I not? What if someone needy comes in then barrages me for sitting there? Why is that uncle/auntie standing right in front of it instead of sitting? He/she looks needy, he/she should sit. Gah!! Look away, look away.” Think you get my drift.
And…. that’s a round up!
Conclusion: There seems to be some serious pros to it and well the cons are easily solved apart from #1 & #2. My own conclusion? I’ll just take the LRT if I’m working from office and don’t have heavy stuff to carry. For other days, I’ll just drive. I already knew the answer before I did this pros and cons thingy. I just wanted to rant about the lousy driver who can’t reverse park. Tsk.
Destiny... I'm coming! 