The chaos at Sepang International Circuit during the Formula 1 weekend was frustrating, but hardly surprising.
Thousands of fans were left stranded. Crowds spilled onto the highway, with some fans walking along emergency lanes towards Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Shuttle buses struggled to cope with the sudden surge, while traffic around the circuit ground to a standstill.
It would be easy to dismiss this as a one-off failure of event management. But for anyone who uses Malaysian public transport every day, the problems at Sepang should look very familiar.
Sepang was simply a much bigger, more visible version of the transport problems we already face in our cities.
