murderous traffic

I’m back! Back from all the SEA countries and finally back to KL. I was so enthused about getting home when I was out there but now, now that when I’m here, now that when I have to face with that drastic traffic every morning and the heart wrenched early mornings, I wish I was travelling again!

I realised I have been blessed all these years working in PJ and in my ex-company. The only times that I have to get through the despicable jam were when I have to go to KL for meetings. But even then it was far and few between so I was OK with that.

Not now.

The jam started just outside my door and merrily continue all the way to KL. The only possible way for the cars to move is to crawl. And then sometimes you get those smart arses who think they can cut queue anytime they want and using emergency lanes and worse still – following closely behind the butt of a rushing ambulance, all contributed to the foul mood every driver will experienced in a jam.

So now every morning I reach office feeling like I’ve just fought a battle, and won the move-along-NOW-you-idiotic-tortoise-driver-with-no-brains-war with my sanity intact.

The thing about jam is that it gives you plenty of time to think – be it reflecting about yourself with the rear view mirror, doing mental list of your work (or chores), or secretly admiring the beautiful lady in the car just next to you. I constantly think about ways to eliminate the jam and I will continue to hope against hope that eventually some official will see the genius of my plan and implement them and thus eliminate this horrible time wasting activity.

1) To encourage car pool – Did you realised most cars have only 1 driver and that’s it? No wonder KL’s flooded with cars! CAR POOL!
2) To have prefix time slots for heavy vehicles to enter city only – especially those bus bullies!
3) To install ERP like Singapore in city centre – I’m sure the roads will be quite clear.
4) To slap a heavy fine to all the wayward drivers – No thanks to your selfish antics!
5) To designate different working hours for selected parts of the city so that not everyone has to go to work and go home at the same time!
6) To have better and more secure parking facilities around the LRT stations, more trips during rush hours, and lower the LRT ticket price to encourage usage.
7) To build covered walkways in cities to encourage walking instead of driving intra-city.
To have more traffic police managing the traffic. Or actually just better manage the timing of the traffic lights!
9) And not forgetting to have better road planning! For goodness sake stop building mammoth buildings without expanding the narrow roads…

Save petrol, lessen fuel emission, save money, save mother earth!

So you see… actually I really did a lot of thinking during the crawl… (nervous laugh)