KLANG, July 3 -- Barely an hour after finishing his Advanced Financial Management examination at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam, 24-year-old accounting student Afifi Afzil Azami was no longer thinking about balance sheets.

Instead, he and a classmate found themselves aboard the newly opened LRT3 Shah Alam Line, making an impromptu trip to Klang simply because neither had explored Selangor's royal town before.

With free rides on the new line and its feeder buses until July 31, the pair decided there was no better time for a spontaneous "cuti-cuti Klang".

"We had just finished our exam this morning at UiTM Shah Alam," Afifi said.

"We got off at Pasar Klang station and walked around looking for somewhere to eat, but it seemed...