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Too posh to push?

A few weeks ago, there was a phone in session over the radio (BFM) on the Damansara Heights (situated in a luxurious uptown part of KL) Residents' Association President, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Abd Rahaman's statement where he had the cheek to tell the press that his neighbours do not want the MRT stations to be located anywhere near their neighbourhood as they preferred to drive in their Jaguars and their other luxury cars! Passengers on a train in Bihar ' “People in our area will not use this (the MRT). People from other areas... pass through our area to go to town. That makes the whole place jammed (already),” he added. Abdul Aziz also pointed out that land was scarce in the affluent neighbourhood, which counts ministers, tycoons and top civil servants as among its residents.' Here we are, everybody trying to crack their heads trying to draft a master plan to modernize our public transportation in line with any developed nation but it seems now that everything is jus...