COMMENT | It is a great relief that, finally, after massive delays, realignments and costs, the LRT3 Shah Alam line is now running. For the estimated two million people living along the route from Klang, through Shah Alam to Bandar Utama, that’s a great relief.

After waiting more than six years, they have an alternative route into town with the Glenmarie and Bandar Utama interchanges connecting them to all parts of Kuala Lumpur instead of the congested roads.

The immediate impact is that commuters no longer have to clamber into cars for a long, arduous drive into town. As Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah himself said, husbands and wives working in far-off Kuala Lumpur do not have to come back home way after dinner time.

Kuala Lumpur is not that far off, actually a mere 20 to 40km away depending on where you live, but at peak times it can take two to three hours to reach your destinations. You can reach Johor Bahru by that time on a good day.

And if it rains, you are...