Penang Hill Railway kaput … again

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Here we go again. Says a lot about the RM73m ‘upgrading’ work, doesn’t it?

At 11.45am today, Penang Hill Corporation discovered a failure of an electronic component in the power supply module in one of the coaches. Three Engineers from Garaventa AG Switzerland have been here to help PHC maintain the coaches for the past couple of weeks are now attending to the problem.

The Engineers are working hard to get the coach running by tomorrow.

Dato’ Lee Kah Choon

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Ric Francis
Ric Francis
9 Jun 2011 10.37am

Here we go again this morning on start up guess what train carriage would not work again, What fool would believe Penang as a real lemon of a carriage, plus engineers that have no clue on how to fix the electrical problem.What this space for more problems
Ric

Feringghi Boy
Feringghi Boy
8 Jun 2011 4.27pm

Penang Gomen can restore the faith in Penang Hill by engaging bomoh or sinseh to chase away the barang naik evils !

Then for goodess sake get our own penangite Hannah T to promote Penang Hill. Just pose outside the main gate and sooner or later you get her Japanese fans to fly over ! May be Hollywood Michael bay can get Hannah T to make a cameo in Transformers 4 where Bumblebee appears in Bukit Bendera ?

This is Marketing 101 we never get to learn in our apex U.

Penangite
Penangite
8 Jun 2011 3.11pm

Well, I am sure LGE is going to blame the BN again for this mess… Typical DAP outlook. Blame everyone else…

Feringghi Boy
Feringghi Boy
8 Jun 2011 4.30pm
Reply to  Penangite

of course blame with facts and figures just like what we get to see in Jerejak fiasco that even Hock None seldom shows up in Botanic Garden these days to answer the public !

Lucia Lai
8 Jun 2011 4.52pm
Reply to  Penangite

but this project was carried out by BN so of course BN is to be blamed! it is not a state project.

tunglang
8 Jun 2011 9.04pm
Reply to  Lucia Lai

Ng Yen Yen ‘cleverly’ passed this responsibility to LGE on launching day.
‘Cleverly’ washed her hand with Dettol X-Tra Kleen as ‘cleverly’ as Pontius Pilate…

tunglang
8 Jun 2011 8.13am

Satu Lagi Projek in Penang carries with it a load of problems for CM LGE to untangle, to explain to public, to incur money to modify (tin train) for solutions. This Penang Hill Railway super-costly upgrade really costs Penang in many ways: Penangites’ taxes splurged on useless ‘fridge train’ that can’t climb a hill. It may become a problem by the tons as in Proton (let us see). Bad reputation from frequent breakdown at the most popular tourist spot. Heritage value robbed from Penang if fast ride is any good excuse for such “Speedy Gonzales” even a stray dog can… Read more »

mme
mme
8 Jun 2011 12.45am

another …. low standard overpriced project from MCA…

wandererAUS
wandererAUS
8 Jun 2011 12.08am

The tourism Minister was visiting a new school and entered a class. She try to impressed the students of her teaching ability….. a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’
A little fellow shouted, ‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’

Gerakan K
Gerakan K
8 Jun 2011 12.02am

Bad omen for LGE administration. His entire team should wake up.

Ric Francis
Ric Francis
8 Jun 2011 7.03am
Reply to  Gerakan K

Lets be fair about this the fault does not lie with the Administration team, they got the work carrying out the servceing of this rebuilt system. Problem is the way the contractor built it. Why give a rebuild to a so called contractor with no experience with this type of railway
Ric

tunglang
8 Jun 2011 5.42pm
Reply to  Ric Francis

The 3 Engineers from Garaventa AG Switzerland could have been from Mongolia. In the same vein as you suspect of the so called contractor of tin trains.
And we Penangites have to fork out expensive expatriate consulation fees for these 3 so called engineers for the unfathomable fiasco.
Should we test it with 3 stray dogs once the SLP problem is corrected?

Racheljansz
Racheljansz
8 Jun 2011 7.42am
Reply to  Gerakan K

Malaysian muda luoa!
Each time the Penang Hill train breakdown, it reinforce all our reasoning why we didn’t vote for a gomen that was not transparent or efficient or accountable!

tunglang
8 Jun 2011 8.34am
Reply to  Gerakan K

Bad Omen because of somebody else questionable intention for this questionable investment initiative, not a Penang Gomen initiative (the wider public should better know this fact for a fact).

Bad Omen because a stray dog can stop this super-expensive tin train on its track.

Bad Omen because it will be a SLP project with Problems By The Tons.

These speak volume of the kind of investment Penangites can get from the Feds.

If a stray dog can point its paw to a sick problem, we need no tourism minister to do a classic act of “tail wagging the dog”.

Baharudin
Baharudin
8 Jun 2011 11.31am
Reply to  Gerakan K

BN could have bought a 2nd-hand train from China!

nick
nick
7 Jun 2011 11.50pm

dooms day people……….

tan, tanjung bungah
tan, tanjung bungah
7 Jun 2011 10.03pm

Hi everyone,

Shocking! These coaches and mechanical parts are brand new and in less than 1.5 months, hill railway service had been disrupted 3 times already!

It now looks like a RM73 million fiasco! What has the Ministry of Tourism to say about these 3 sad episodes?

Such bad publicity for tourism for Malaysia, especially following the introduction new biometric identification system fiasco at various entry points to Malaysia, particularly the ones at Johor causeway and the Second Link! Many bus loads of tourists coming to M’sia via Johor have given up visiting the country!

Gerakan K
Gerakan K
8 Jun 2011 3.25am

Don’t worry, got warranty mah, correct ???

tunglang
8 Jun 2011 5.44pm
Reply to  Gerakan K

Warranty for Problems By The Tons?