Bear with me. I can safely say that the traffic problem has been with us for over half a century. In 1970, I was living in Sentul and had to travel every weekday morning right across town to Pantai, where Universiti Malaya was located.
It took me at least three hours both ways on a good day. I sometimes took shortcuts. If I got off at the Kuala Lumpur main railway station from the bus which I took at the university, and timed it at the appropriate hour - 12.30pm at lunch and 4.30pm in the evening, I could avoid road traffic and save 45 minutes for that 10-minute ride to Sentul and the five-minute walk to home. Bliss.
KTM ran train services for its staff at these times, and in...