On solving the public transportation system,
There have been many suggestions but most include planning done by the government and operation or something by government. Since when did the government become an expert in public transportation. Conspicuously missing are the opinions the many thousands of people who make sure hundreds of thousands of school children reach school and back on an almost daily basis, the operators of school buses. This is one of the few areas that the free market is allow to work itself out and as you can see thousands reach school and home on time at affordable prices and it rarely ever fails. How much more can you for a public transport system. From the aunty who has an extra space in her car to the company with many buses they can tell you a thing or two about competitive pricing, punctuality, route routing, and other details that only many years in the industry will that bureacrats with MBA's don't learn from business schools.
These operators know that if they don't use the most efficient route, don't come on time, don't charge the lowest price possible, don't have comfortable buses(as in the mind of the consumer), have buses that breakdown or if they are too greedy and try to cover too many stops of routes the end up not serving the customer well and they will lose money because they always have competttion to take the business away from them. This is something that bus companies who have monopoly of a route will never understand.
So instead of spending millions to research the best possible routes and pump money in why not just use the knowledge and expertise that is already there. Ah Heng the 'bas sekolah' man knows where the most kids who take his bus lives. And so he will also know where people most likely take public trasnport live and where they want to go.
So the solution: Anyone who wants to be involved in the business after being registered they can and there should absolutely no government telling of where they should go or any intervention at all. They only follow the money because the money is where the consumers are.