Comments on: North-south highway 3rd lanes

By: YuraYong

YuraYong — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:51:59 +0000

28/3/2010. Travelling in bus from KL to BW. Saw accident involving 4 to 5 cars. Few persons lying on floor with blood. 1 car side way skidded. 1 car behind badly broken. 1 car front badly broken. It was raining. So North South 3 lane user, beware! Accident happen before Ipoh. Not sure if it was before Sabak Bernam. Scary!

By: YuraYong

YuraYong — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:45:36 +0000

I notice some nasty accident @ North South Highway last Sunday (28/3/2010).
Road condition wet because of rain. It involved 4 to 5 cars. If what I read above even if half truth, then the more reason you have to be worried.
I am not sure exactly what happen because I was in a bus travelling from KL to BW. But passing by I saw a car skided sideway, one banked very bad at the back, one or two damaged and I remembered few people lying on the floor with bloods. So for frequent traveller, be extra careful esp. rainy day. Judging from the condition of last car I saw (banked very bad from behind), I guessed the first car slowed down, then rest follow too fast or too close.

By: ryelim

ryelim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:14:59 +0000

I have always wanted to voice my observations in PJ on the Tarmac on our PJ road resurfacing.
Now you have hit the nail on the head with this message above.
Over the years, due to corruptions, Malaysians have suffered. Now lives are in danger.
Contractors have been cheating on the materials used for resurfacing. When rubber price was high in the last 2-3 years, butimen which used lots of rubber were adulterated.
What we get although looked nice and new are in fact just Blackened SAND. This made the roads dangerous with sand and is slippery.
Within a week after resurfacing and having the garbage lorry dripping on the re-surfaced road, one can see that groves along the road where the leaks from garbage lorry leaved on the road. This means the materials used is incorrect.
Who check and pay these bad / dangerous jobs??
Maybe better not to re-surface them.
Materials composition used to do the job has been cheated. This can kill. Please KILL corrupt parties to the poor job not road users.

By: bluefishman

bluefishman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:49:51 +0000

To prevent accidents? built a HUMP every 3km…….

By: Accidents in Putrajaya - By: fallen angel

Accidents in Putrajaya - By: fallen angel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:25:22 +0000

[...] Is this normal, or could it be that the road surface has a wearing course that’s too fine, similar to the problem highlighted here? [...]

By: negarawan

negarawan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:20 +0000

So has any MP brought up this issue in parliament yet?

By: taiking

taiking — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:38:35 +0000

Highway tested and OKed following standards.
Very well said.
In engineering, there are differing standards for things depending on the use to which they are put.
So passing a test, as in satisfying the requirements of a certain standard, can be deceiving and outright meaningless.
And it will remain so matter how strict the supervision was during construction and how thorough the subsequent tests were.

By: Rose Fashion

Rose Fashion — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:41:52 +0000

I had a very bad experience using the highway. Thanks to Samy Valu for leaving behind so many semi value assets to the people. As a businessman, we have to suffer from the high charges and at the end we risk the life of our family and friends. What a disgrace for Malaysia! Kerry lingerie wholesaler

By: Rose Fashion

Rose Fashion — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:37:34 +0000

I agree.

By: JY

JY — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:14:27 +0000

The issue in contention here is not about the certainty on short-changing of work specification, but the worrisome on the “consciousness of knowledge” on the suitability of the design mix specification of the wearing course. Such fear can only be alleviated after the required tests are carefully conducted and the results “appropriately” revealed.

By: shortie kiasu

shortie kiasu — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:24:54 +0000

Highway Authority Malaysia had given a written reply in the Star newspaper on 8/7/08 in the letter to the editor section of the paper.

There is nothing wrong with the design and the construction of the 3rd lane and according to HAM stringent tests had been conducted on the finished lane and closely supervised during construction.

So the perception of the BMW driver remained as his perception and his ‘feel’ only. Can’t really prove anything even with the BMW car.

By: Sunrise :: Go slower on upgraded stretch of NSE during rainy days

Sunrise :: Go slower on upgraded stretch of NSE during rainy days — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:20:14 +0000

[...] have been complaints that the newly resurfaced stretches are slippery when the road is wet. A letter by J.Y. to MP for Ipoh Timur, Lim Kit Siang claims that the wearing course of the new road surface could be too fine or too [...]

By: limkamput

limkamput — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:59:12 +0000

undergrad2 says “One buttock talking to another – cheek to cheek!”

you are wrong again. it is my buttock to your cheek. you never learn, best of both worlds.

By: undergrad2

undergrad2 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:33:58 +0000

So there is another nincompoop living in TTDI. God! How many nincompoops are there??

By: pjboy

pjboy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:56:01 +0000

No lah according to Kinabatangan MP, from what I see in RPK news posted, he was doing the butterfly sign to the opposition. Must have learnt it from Barney – The Purple Dinosaur CDs. Anyway, that’s how the ruling gov treat us all rakyat, like kindergarten kids.

Everytime there is a major project, a huge signboard will state “Satu Lagi Projek Kerajaan BN”…it should be “Satu Lagi Projek Untuk Rakyat, DiBayar Oleh Rakyat Tanpa Apa-apa Komisyen Kepada BN Dan Krony-krony BN”. As if, the money used for the job came from their own deep pockets. Only the animals in the zoo will believe it.

Even if borrowed $, this would have been marked-up grossly for their own takings or small part go to political party. In the end, we the Rakyat, are the ones having to bear for it…& probably for a few generations.

Come to think of it, how much longer do WE have to pay for the financing of the Penang Bridge? It’s coming to 20 years now.

By: mhchew

mhchew — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:53:32 +0000

On NS highway everyone mentioning only slippery. I feel that newly surface 3rd line is uneven when u go 100km/h and slippery. The workmanship is poor. Its contributes to road accident which is dangerous to road user. I hopefully Plus does not leave current state of road to user usage.

By: badak

badak — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:47:30 +0000

Want to know why corruption is so high in Malaysia.From 2000 to 2006, more 70,000 corruption cases was reported to ACA.Less then 7000 cases was investicated .Only 582 people was convicted in a court of law.
With this kind of figures given.If a chance even the gardener in PM office will be corrupted.That is why we are 43rd spot at the CPI.If we look at the figures. Only 1 person a year was convicted. I won,t blame anyone who things that even ACA officers are corrupted.

By: shortie kiasu

shortie kiasu — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:20:28 +0000

It could be just the writer’s “perception” of the feeling, it may not be the “truth”, and people treat the perception and the truth as the one and the same as said by our PM Abdullah.

So is there any proof of any wrong doing? What then is the issue?

By: TTDI_KL

TTDI_KL — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:23:01 +0000

Sdr Lim, why are you remaining silent on the massive cancellation of federal projects and allocations to Penang? Does the money in the Treasury belong to BN? It is time to take off the glove on those who systematically undermine Penang. Demand from the federal government how much of the federal tax revenue had come from Penang. This bloody racist politics must stop.

By: k1980

k1980 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:14:12 +0000

Bet the aca has also shelved moves to investigate Botak Yong for corruption
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Frontpage/2288222/Article/index_html