Public transport must be efficient and reliable

Filepic of Kuching Sentral bus terminal

SARAWAK set up its own Transport Ministry in a minor Cabinet reshuffle in August, with Datuk Lee Kim Shin named as its minister and Datuk Dr Jerip Susil as his assistant minister.

The ministry, as Lee explained in his maiden winding-up speech at the Sarawak Legislative Assembly earlier this month, is responsible for policy-making, planning and developing urban transport, urban traffic management and river transport.