METRO, a company running on train services has been fined with $1 million for a just-over 14% of trains running late in July. Nonetheless, the train punctuality for this period has improved from 80.5% in March. In addition, Metro has been fined each month for failing to meet the punctuality target where for the April-to-June quarter, fine up to $3 million had been charged to Metro. Mr Bowen, president to Public Transport Users Association said that the statistics released would be a reminder to government and Metro to work harder in upgrading train system performance. Adding to the point above, Mr Bowen said a late train can easily delay 1000 people. Lastly, an overall figure revealed that almost 19% of country trains were late in July and 1.1% of services were cancelled.
source: news.com.au
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It is vital to improve the public transport services. People especially workers and students are highly reliant on public transports and thus the poor punctuality of those services will surely be a deterrent for them to reach their destinations on time. This article has made me think of the ktm services in Malaysia. Train service providers are going to be fined for their poor performances and how about Malaysia's? I personally think that lacking such regulation is the main cause for the deteriorating train services in Malaysia. Hope that government can take action promptly.
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