Hello everyone. Welcome to the community’s first pinned post! 📌

I’m thinking of doing weekly/regularly cycling pins for casual discussion on the topic of transportation in Malaysia, to get the wheels spinning.

A few topic ideas off the top of my head:

  • sharing good/bad personal experiences/confessions with regards to taking the various modes of transport
  • tips, tricks, and lifehacks for the various modes of transport
  • off the beaten paths to take and explore
  • ideas on improving modal choice (i.e. access to transportation modes that isn’t cars)
  • nerding out on transport modes and lines you wish exists, alternative transit diagrams, etc.
  • transportation history/future
  • comparisons with other countries
  • universal access

Topic ideas welcomed, here and on all subsequent meta-posts. Full-feature posts on such topics even more so! 😆👍‍

Thank you.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    Don’t really have any particular ideas but are there channels like Not Just Bikes but Malaysia-based?

    • @[email protected]OPM
      -1•1 year ago

      I wish there is, but there’s not much to show here, it feels like.

      Glad to see another orange pilled person here though. 🤝

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Man, hopefully someone can do that kind of channel especially to appeal with non-English speakers here. Thought of doing it myself but not a big camera guy nor do I have the time for it and also my knowledge is pretty shallow still.

  • @[email protected]
    2•1 year ago

    i like the general tips and tricks thread, and of course announcements/driveby posts when LRT/KTM/bus services are down. Those are useful!

    • @[email protected]OPM
      0•1 year ago

      of course announcements/driveby posts when LRT/KTM/bus services are down. Those are useful!

      If somebody can help me with that, that’d be much appreciated. 😬

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      i know it’s technically transport, but car in a transport community sounds like some Grab Rideshare hahaha or some car rental corner of the transport community.

    • @[email protected]OPM
      -1•1 year ago

      roads and highways can la, since public transport uses them too.

      car peeps can make their own community. 😒

      • Annoyed_🦀
        2•1 year ago

        Hmm, so is your idea of this community is transport excluding car? Sorry i’m not too clear about that 😆

        Let see:

        • public transport general question(eg: what line to use to get from point a to point b, schedule of public transport, etc etc)
        • touristy place that can be accessed via public transport
        • sightseeing route recommendation(maybe sort of like for roadtrip, or maybe new alternative route to take with better view)(same as “off the beaten path to take and explore”?)
        • cyclists talk(place for bicycle enthusiast to talk about cycling stuff, eg: bicycle, shop recommendation, equipment, advice, diagnosis and repair, cycling route, etc etc)
        • ebike(place to talk about and discuss all thing ebike, including electric motorcycle)
        • a general thread for everything

        That’s all i have 😅

        • @[email protected]OPM
          0•1 year ago

          so is your idea of this community is transport excluding car? Sorry i’m not too clear about that 😆

          I may have a hidden urbanist agenda 🙊

          But yes, I want the community to focus away from cars as the default mode. I want to plant the idea that it doesn’t have to be just cars everywhere.

          • Penang Kia
            2•1 year ago

            I am an urbanism fan too. Maybe we can talk about how towns and cities are designed for better living too. It is closely tied to transportation 😊

  • @[email protected]M
    1•1 year ago

    Insteads of just complaints, perhaps we can try some things we like about our public transportation, or what we think they did right, despite their shortcomings.

  • @[email protected]OPM
    -1•1 year ago

    I think having a weekly general thread + a topical thread would be a well-balanced approach.

    I’m going to call it the weekly PTSD thread, with PTSD = public transit stories & discussions.

    The weekly topic would be either combined with the weekly thread or a separate thread. What do you guys think?