Comments on: Anatomy of a traffic disaster

By: Driving into Klang River « Life’s Like That

Driving into Klang River « Life’s Like That — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:23:31 +0000

[...] across the bridge. PKA ’s location being a mere kilometre away from the bridge is going to exacerbate the nightmarish traffic. Motorists may as well drive off the bridge into the Klang River when this [...]

By: ktteokt

ktteokt — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:44:01 +0000

Traffic in Kuala Lumpur would turn for the worse if traffic police are not “re-trained” in handling traffic. I fail to see why the government spent so many millions fixing up so called “computerized traffic lights” when traffic police start manning junctions and blowing away whistles, allowing traffic to move when the light is red and stopping it when the light is green.

If at all the police think this is a better way to handle traffic, then perhaps we should revert to the fifties when traffic police stood on oil drums in the middle of junctions directing traffic. It would definitely save the people a lot of money that way, doing away with traffic lights, computers and electricity costs. Besides, oil drums are cheap and being able to recycle them would help to conserve lots of resources for the nation.

By: yapthomas

yapthomas — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:50:50 +0000

OH NO!!.. I’m a KLANG PERSON!!

Vote for me if I run independant..!!
And I will do all my best to solve the problem.

Of course, If I’m in the BN, do vote for me and I will change
every system.. But I doubt I will, cause all my BN upper links will stop me..

By: twistedmind

twistedmind — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:38:28 +0000

People of Klang, you are not alone! Metro Kajang Bhd with the blessing of the then menteri besar and his band of town councilers did the same thing to Kajang town – we’re still paying the price till today.

Buildings were erected where roads used to run and now traffic have to run circles around town to get to the other side. 50 years of madness, only in Malaysia.

By: ENDANGERED HORNBILL

ENDANGERED HORNBILL — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:08:58 +0000

The question is, more often than not, ‘who is behind the development?’. PLease check. It’s probably another ZAkaria Mat Deros clone.

So that explains.

It’s time for Klang to vote PKR/DAP in the next GE.

By: Godfather

Godfather — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:04:04 +0000

Some of you should go to the SRK(C) Damansara next to the Riana Green Condos and near to the Sony Centre to see the “wisdom” of the town planners. All around the primary school are four-lane roads, two in each direction, but somehow the latest phase of the Riana Green Condos was allowed to portrude on to part of the road, thereby causing one section in front of the school to narrow into a single lane in each direction. Who on earth would approve something like this? I think there are reasonable grounds to sue the planning authorities for negligence, and I have been hoping that a citizen living in the vicinity would do this, and bring the whole matter into the open.

By: madmix

madmix — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:57:50 +0000

There was probably a master plan in the beginning. But the there’s money, money, money, money to be made by the approving authorities and the developers. Win win they say. And the rakyat loses. There is no such thing as win win, someone must lose. Its a total sum game.

By: sotong

sotong — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:16:13 +0000

How can anyone take pride of the present development that caused unnecessary hardship and suffering to the ordinary people?

There is an gross over investment in the country infra structure. The money could be better spent helping the poor in the kampong.

By: Winston

Winston — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:53:48 +0000

There is only one way all these can be resolved.
That is by booting out the BN government.
Uncle Lim must go all out to wrest the power from this government.

By: hasilox

hasilox — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:24:30 +0000

Was there a proper planning? I seriously doubt. The authority only do the only thing they know, shoddy patchworks.

Without efficient public transport system, there can never be enough roads in the densely populated cities. So far only empty talks and maybe some missing budgets. Where are the results?

By: Cinapek

Cinapek — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:47:47 +0000

Such mindless approvals for developments are not limited to Klang alone. They happen in other parts of the country as well. A prime example is Taman Perling in JB. After an exhilirating drive on the Second Link, the nearest exit into JB and Pasir Gudang passes through a two lane dual carriage road in Perling. This same road serves practically the entire housing developments of the western part of South Johor namely, more than ten housing estates including the massive Bukit Indah and Nusajaya schemes have to use this same stretch of road to reach JB. In the 1.5km stretch passing through Taman Perling, there are 4 traffic lights making the situation even worse. It is not uncommon to take up to 40mins to move 50m during peak periods, which is nearly always. Cars have to fight for space with 16 wheeler trucks exiting the Second Link heading for Pasir Gudang.

Now they are hyping the new developments of Nusajaya and Horizon Hills, whose launching was recently presided over by the PM as part of the SJER initiative. These new developments will be completed in about two years, adding to the disastrous traffic congestion further. Sure there is the effort to build the Perling interchange and the proposed coastal highway to ease these jams. But these may take more than two years to complete, with luck maybe five given the track record of the Johor Jaya Interchange. So where does that leave the long suffering residents in this entire western corridor in the meantime? Can’t the authorities use their common sense and see the problem and coordinate the developments to match the infrastructure? Or are the planning approvals decided by vested interest?

Lest anyone mentions public transport, a four letter word will be its most apt description. This stretch of road is the tourists’ first impression of Malaysia as they come in via the Second Link. Apart from the jam, because of the huge number of cars typically stuck waiting, rubbish are thrown out of cars indiscriminately. The sights that greets the tourist as he sits waiting in the jam are the rubbish on the roadside as well as the clogged drains caused by the rubbish thrown. Welcome VMY2007!!!

Potential investors to SJER visiting Malaysia in the meanwhile will be greeted with the same jams and rubbish and be put off by it. No Robert Kuok, Andrew Sheng or Musa Hitam can help if the problems on the ground are not resolved and resolved fast.

By: sotong

sotong — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:29:59 +0000

This is the result of decades reckless planning and spending.

It is long overdue to get rid of these corrupt, incompetent and self serving politicians before they destroy the country.

By: teetwoh

teetwoh — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:09:20 +0000

I lived in Klang all my life, until 2.5 years ago, when I have had enough and left. When I returned in December 2006, that was exactly how I felt, ie., how on earth is the traffic going to cope with all the mindless “development”? It would be like the proverbial case of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. All the “development” and construction only benefit the developers,builders and of course, the local government. The people of Klang bears only the brunt of it all.

By: Old Home, James Cameron & Prayer « Teh’s Tales, Ian’s Yarns

Old Home, James Cameron & Prayer « Teh’s Tales, Ian’s Yarns — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:23:52 +0000

[...] Siang had this entry, which outlined the stupidity and/or corruption of the Klang Town Council.Ã‚Â It was written by him. [...]

By: accountability

accountability — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:57:35 +0000

the umno cronies from bn is still helming the town, what do you expect?