He said the failure to add additional coaches and maintain the existing ones, has led to trains running at 6-minute intervals during peak hours instead of a forecast 2-minute intervals.

Najib said the original plan in 2020 was for trains in the LRT3 project to run at 2-minute intervals during peak hours. However, after the 2018 general election, then finance minister Lim Guan Eng had postponed the project to 2024.

He also reduced the number of trains and coaches to 22 and three respectively from the previous 42 trains and six coaches, Najib said.

Najib said the PH government had also reduced the number of LRT3 stations and the length of the platforms, resulting in LRT3 stations that were smaller than those of LRT1 and LRT2.

“Even if the government wanted to reinstate the number of coaches to six to cater for the crowd during peak hours, it wouldn’t be able to do so as the platforms would not be able to accommodate it,” he said in a Facebook post.

His remarks were in response to a complaint on social media about long queues at an LRT station and longer intervals between trains.

Najib said additional trains could not be added to accommodate the number of passengers during peak hours as the number of trains “had been cut to half”.

Given the size of the crowds, he said it was not impossible for the queue to spill on to the streets during peak hours.

“Thank you PH,” he said sarcastically.

Earlier this month transport minister Wee Ka Siong said PH had downsized the LRT3 projects by cancelling five stations and the tunnel work, as well as ordering trains with fewer carriages, causing completion of the project to be delayed to 2024.