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No escape from traffic jams |
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Written by Metro - Central
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Monday, 03 July 2006 |
Getting caught in a traffic snarl, especially during peak hours, is perhaps one of the most stressful moments for urban motorists.
Just about every motorists I know would want to have their say about how they dread the traffic conditions in the Klang Valley.
The worsening traffic situation in most parts of the Klang Valley took me by surprise because when I was based in Petaling Jaya seven years ago, the situation was not really that bad.
I could leave my home in Port Klang at 8.20am and, using the
Federal Highway, I would reach the office at Section 13, Petaling Jaya
before 9am. If I had used the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), I
would probably reach 10 minutes earlier.
Back then I did not have a “Smartag” or the “Touch and Go” devices, I
would que up at the cash payment toll booths like many others. I dread
to think how long my journey would take if I did not have such devices
nowadays.
Strangely despite the construction of alternative tolled highways such
as Kesas and Elite and having the luxury of using Smartag, the journey
to the workplace at Section 16 from Klang had more than doubled.
I must leave my home in Klang before 7.15am in order to reach the
office by 9am. It is hard to imagine that it takes 100 minutes travel
on the road for a 34km journey which is an average of three minutes for
every km.
Frankly, it is really hard to keep a cool head when you are forced to drive 10km/ph or less for half the journey.
It looks like there is no way to escape the traffic jam. You can live
in Subang Jaya, Puchong, Sungai Buloh, Kepong, Cheras, Kajang, Ampang,
Serdang or Rawang but you cannot run away from it.
Worse still in during traffic crawls, there are creatures trying to cut
queue sadly it never gets into their thick skulls that their selfish
attitude aggravates the situation.
If driving during peak hours is already bad, imagine the situation when
there is a downpour or an accident, traffic then is virtually at a
standstill.
It is a known fact that Malaysian drivers must slow down to have more
than a peek even if it was just a minor collision between two vehicles
on the road, thereby making the traffic situation worse than it already
is.
Thus it is not surprising that in a street poll conducted by The Star
last week showed that the rudest Malaysians are those behind the wheel.
source: Metro Central
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