PJ City Bus service to extend routes in 2016

PETALING JAYA: More improvements can be expected from the PJ City Bus service in 2016 as the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) looks to further enhance the free shuttle bus service.
Petaling Jaya mayor Mohd Azizi Mohd Zain told reporters that due to overwhelming response from PJ residents to the City Bus service which debuted on May 1 last year, the city council will be adding two new routes, Kelana Jaya and Taman Bahagia.
"We will also be adding two more new buses to the current fleet of 10 as we hope that each route will have a minimum of four buses, but the number of additional buses and the number of buses servicing each route will be confirmed after we have a detailed discussion with Prasarana," he said during a press conference after going on a ride on the PJ City Bus service earlier today.
Mohd Azizi said that currently the PJ City Bus service goes on two routes which are PJ01 and PJ02 where the PJ01 route covers areas like Taman Medan, PJ New Town and Section 52 before ending at the Taman Jaya LRT station while the PJ02 route covers the Asia Jaya LRT station, Taman Jaya LRT station, Section 14, 17, 19, SS2, and University Hospital.
He added that to further promote the council's initiatives of Low Carbon City and Go-Green, one of the buses will be an electric bus and it will be provided by Prasarana as both MBPJ and Prasarana have signed an agreement on this initiative.
Mohd Azizi also said that MBPJ is looking at having a dedicated PJ City Bus service specifically for school children.
"This dedicated bus service which will also be available next year is to ferry school students to their respective schools within PJ and it will be available in the morning from around 6am to 7am and during noon time when the morning session of the school finishes and during that period no members of the public will be allowed to board the bus.
"The rationale for this dedicated bus service is because we noticed that in the current route some of these students actually need to change to a different bus to reach their school after alighting from the PJ City Bus," he said.
He expressed hopes that this dedicated bus service will enable school children to reach their schools faster and in a safer way.