Flood in KL

It was such heavy rain when reached KL and on the way from Subang Airport to KL Sentral. The rain being blown ferociously and had caused havoc massive jam at Federal Highway. According to the taxi driver, it had been heavy downpoured for few days during evening, I was wondering whether I could make it to Putrajaya on time.

Once I reach KL Sentral, I quickly pay ticket boarded on the train KLIA Transit on time. Seems like my appointment is running smoothly... but after 5 minutes in the train, the engine of the train had stopped!! I had never encountered this before, shall I stay in the train or just forget it and take a taxi to Putrajaya? But the queue of taxi was so long when I was there just now, so I better keep quiet, probably they ll work something out.

Then they had made announcement that the train had "minor technical problem" and we were told to stay in the train. OK, fine, just stay in the train and see how they solve the problem. Finally after 10 minutes, seems like they had solved the problem and train had been moved from KL Sentral to Bandar Tasek Selatan, then towards Putrajaya, and when just 10 minutes away from Putrajaya, the train had stopped again. %?#$@?&*!! What the hell happened??


The video clip was taken when I was in the train.

Few hours of heavy downpour had caused flood of train track and train cannot move on. We were stuck there for another 10 minutes. Again, they made the announcement that the train cannot continue journey caused of heavy rain and have to wait for the water receding, but after another 10 minutes, then another announcement saying that we have to go back to KL Sentral as the heavy flood getting worsen. I am so fucking annoying, I am already late for the appointment and had called him that I will be late for half an hour and then I have to call him again that I couldnt make it??

The best part of this "the transportation that is the pride of Malaysian" when we turned back and reached KL Sentral, we were going up to upper floor with escalator to the exit entrance, and when reached the upper floor, the roller shutter had been closed down, we were stuck in between of escalator roller shutter!! A guy at my back had cursed and shouted angrily. Luckily there were only few of us if, not for sure it will caused us falling down to escalator and caused injury.

What the heck happened here, KLIA Transit and KLIA Express are both wellknown of the most reliable transportation in town as what they claimed "... we can be proud of our own Express Rail Link (ERL) services that offer speedy and easy travel from the heart of Kuala Lumpur at KL Sentral to our international gateway at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) as well as various stations in between. No more hassle, no more headaches, no more traffic jams, only a smooth ride to look forward to"??

I am damn sure that this is not the first time they had encountered same problem, but after years, seems like the management not bother of repair or lever up the track so that it won't happen in future. We are not only lost our time and money (although they had refunded the ticket's money)but also our faith. This is the transportation that frequently used by foreigners, What if the passengers on the way rushing to the airport back to their hometown and missed the flight? what will they say when they went back to their country? What a shame!! How can a developed area like KL experienced this? Is this still a pride of Malaysian?