Standstill

In our daily life, traffic at a standstill will be a norm to us. My profession requires me to travel around Klang Valley. There bound to be traffic jam somewhere so I’m kind of used to it. Still I do hope I don’t have to face it daily but from morning rush to lunch jam and to evening rush hour, we are most likely to be trapped in traffic jam. Well, it’s part of our lives now and we just have to live with it. This is a common sight in most advanced city in the whole world.

Source: The Star

Various bodies in Malaysia are looking into solving this issue. Calls were made to improve public transportation and also to car pool. Light Railway Transit (LRT) was built. Rapid KL added more buses. Mass Rapid Transit will be built soon.

But will all these help in solving the virtual train that we create every morning and evening? There bound to be some “suaku” (Hokkien dialect that means country bumpkin) to slow down and stare at accidents when they passed by. For goodness sake, it may just be a flat tire or someone fell off the motorcycle at the opposite lane. It’s not the time to be busybody unless you are the first one to arrive and knows how to do first aid. Else, just move on quickly so that other first aiders/ambulance can reach there faster.

I read in The Star newspaper on Saturday, 26^th February 2011 (Click here for link). Quoted from the article in it:

Although Penang was fourth on the list with a total 2,209,770 vehicles, it had the third highest number of newly registered vehicles in 2010.

The island registered 110,882 new vehicles and was preceded by Kuala Lumpur (306,513) and Johor (145,040).

Kuala Lumpur registered a little over 300 thousand vehicles in 2010. How many vehicles were actually dumped? In 3 years, there might be close or maybe even more than 1 million new vehicles registered in KL alone. How about new vehicles in Selangor? If the amount of new vehicles in Selangor is one third of KL’s, then there will be about 1.2 million new vehicles in Klang Valley in 3 years time.

Do you think we ever can have a free flowing traffic every morning, every evening, daily? I doubt so.