KL Vs Bangkok

I just went to Bangkok last weekend and here's some findings or observation comparing KLand Bangkok city.

Malaysia government scrapped the monorail system in Penang because it costs too much for the government and Penangites don't need them yet. What about KL? We always said traffic in KL city is very jam and it has cause such inconvenient to people living or working there. But in Bangkok a 4 km distance may took up to 40 minutes to reached in taxi, and that's already consider quite fast by the locals. Here I believe 4km journey maybe takes about 20 minutes or so will do.

Secondly, we can see taxi everywhere in Bangkok and out of 10 cars on the road, at least half of them are taxis. This is base on my own survey and counting. Figure written may be little off the actual, but it's very convenient to get a taxi over there. I doubt KL would have such convenient and number of taxis on the road.

Fare in Bangkok is also cheaper than in KL, if not mistaken. Taxi drivers there are a lot friendlier than in KL. They are also helpful towards tourists like us when we don't know the direction. Bangkok also have skytrain system in the town, and it's more convenient than in KL because KL's some monorail and LRT stations are seperated eventhough they are in the similar area. Passengers need to climb down and up stations to get to their destination sometimes.

In Bangkok they also have MRT train, which I still don't know why KL don't want to construct when it's at lower costs? It would be more convenient and building structures srurrounding wouldn't been affected by the construction works. Now costs of constructing increased significantly it's quite impossible to do it now!

Food wise, I would pick KL because we can find so many different choices of food, area, and it's more convenient than in Bangkok. Bangkok we could find some nice food as well, but due to language problem, it's very inconvenient to find one good one, unless reccomended by friends.

As for airport, it's busier in Bangkok than in KLIA. Our airport built to such huge size, yet there's quite empty at times, and Bangkok is mostly busy at all times. We could also see more flights from different country, like British Airways, Qantas, Jordan Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Northwest Airlines etc landed in Bangkok, while KLIA we see mostly our very own MAS planes. So it's pity that our airport not fully utilised.