Inside TheStar's Letters to the Editor column dd Sep 23. A reader called J.M. wrote that he had moved into his home in Kampung Kerinchi, a place of 20-minute drive from KL city where he had finally discovered that it was a "cowboy" town and where laws did not exist. He felt sad to see motorcyclists flouting traffic rules daily. Speeding, snake-riding, red-light beating and even motor racing without helmets by some juveniles of ages 10 and 12. He told that these were all very common in the area. He also told that he has been had! Words of relocating existing hawker-stalls by the developer did not materialized. He urged the authority to enforce the law before a disaster happens.
J.M. has probably taken a wrong choice to move into a kampung-alike place instead of taman or city. The name Kampung Kerinchi by itself is self explanatory as kampung. At kampung place, such kinds of snake-riding, red-light beating and bare-headed motorcycling by samseng teenagers, is a norm in its life. How can the authority broaden the traffic law into this kind of kampung area? As you know, how can the authority do away with their TT "tunggu tengguh" and EL "esok lusa" sicknesses that used to be attributed with full responsibility by the general public? The recent case of a teacher fell to his death when the termite-infested plywood floor of a two-storey school block in Alor Star gave way, therefore leading to the alert of emergency funding from authority for re-renovation works. Another recent case of 7 life's deadly accident happened in Penang resulting to the calling of re-examination of the road and safety measurement. These are the good examples. If J.M. can take it easy and get amused by seeing kampung kids play the scene of motor video game in real tracks, and if he can learn to keep alert by fending off left and right from the mad-cow traffic. Then he should be pleasing and comfortable.
Another reader called Harry Belafonte wrote that he had been used to be harassed by left-squeezed jumping queue, road bullying and whopped victimizing. He had called police once for an incident but was being told that "tak boleh buat apa-apa fasal tadak orang kena". He had seemed to be suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of traffic places. He described the traffic here is like a battlefield and driving is such a pain in Malaysia. He questioned whether the police would only act upon after somebody has been killed or hurt first.
Probably Harry is living in a city area. Where usually roads are like ant's ways that full of driver ants. Everybody is "cary jalan" to "cary makan" and no doubt it is like a battlefield. The behavior of big fish bullying small fish is seemed to be a natural character on the road. But luckily not all drivers are inhibited to that behavior.
On the roads here the meaning of the word overtake "travel past, as of a vehicle" doesn't define to whether left and right by many road runners. Driving at 40-50kph onto the priority lane of a 80kph's limit city-way will certainly be attracted to left-squeezed overtaking, buzzing horn, beam lighting, tailgating or even worse a x#@&Pxkx whopping. But basically, majority of drivers are following rules and white lines but least on yellow lines. Anyway try to use hand signers inline with car's signers to communicate with other annoyed car's drivers so that they may swallow back their anger with ease. For example, use a thumbs-up signer to praise the driver who has given way to you. Use a peace or hand-up signer to compromise your driving mistake but don't ever use a middle-finger signer.
Another reader called Roadblocker wrote that roadblock are a necessity to weed out undesirable elements. He also said why must one panic when one sees a roadblock unless one has committed an offense, if one does not speed, one can always stop in time under any circumstances.
Roadblocker is seemed like a good citizen. But a good citizen does not always meet a good cop in good faith. I have an experience of being mistaken by policemen who were setting up a roadblock at a point of the north-south highway in order to "collect" those over-speeders. They blocked me and wanted to book me for over-speeding and so I was furious at the time because I had been driving within the speed-limit all the time during my journey. A frontal argument was therefore exchanged and finally another good cop came to give way by telling that they might have had mistakenly spotted my car which has the same or similar characteristics in model and color with the one which has been zoomed. Where usually police place their roadblock? I don't have much idea but I understand that there will occasionally be having some policemen using their bodies as a roadblock located just 3-5 meters away from an invisible corner at the end of Jln. Todak 2 in Seberang Jaya. In such a circumstance, once you have taken the corner, then you will certainly right away be panicked to pad you break when you suddenly saw policemen just in front of you. Would you not to be panicked under this kind of situation?
However, traffics here are so defective, by then who is who to be blamed? The educators.
J.M. has probably taken a wrong choice to move into a kampung-alike place instead of taman or city. The name Kampung Kerinchi by itself is self explanatory as kampung. At kampung place, such kinds of snake-riding, red-light beating and bare-headed motorcycling by samseng teenagers, is a norm in its life. How can the authority broaden the traffic law into this kind of kampung area? As you know, how can the authority do away with their TT "tunggu tengguh" and EL "esok lusa" sicknesses that used to be attributed with full responsibility by the general public? The recent case of a teacher fell to his death when the termite-infested plywood floor of a two-storey school block in Alor Star gave way, therefore leading to the alert of emergency funding from authority for re-renovation works. Another recent case of 7 life's deadly accident happened in Penang resulting to the calling of re-examination of the road and safety measurement. These are the good examples. If J.M. can take it easy and get amused by seeing kampung kids play the scene of motor video game in real tracks, and if he can learn to keep alert by fending off left and right from the mad-cow traffic. Then he should be pleasing and comfortable.
Another reader called Harry Belafonte wrote that he had been used to be harassed by left-squeezed jumping queue, road bullying and whopped victimizing. He had called police once for an incident but was being told that "tak boleh buat apa-apa fasal tadak orang kena". He had seemed to be suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of traffic places. He described the traffic here is like a battlefield and driving is such a pain in Malaysia. He questioned whether the police would only act upon after somebody has been killed or hurt first.
Probably Harry is living in a city area. Where usually roads are like ant's ways that full of driver ants. Everybody is "cary jalan" to "cary makan" and no doubt it is like a battlefield. The behavior of big fish bullying small fish is seemed to be a natural character on the road. But luckily not all drivers are inhibited to that behavior.
On the roads here the meaning of the word overtake "travel past, as of a vehicle" doesn't define to whether left and right by many road runners. Driving at 40-50kph onto the priority lane of a 80kph's limit city-way will certainly be attracted to left-squeezed overtaking, buzzing horn, beam lighting, tailgating or even worse a x#@&Pxkx whopping. But basically, majority of drivers are following rules and white lines but least on yellow lines. Anyway try to use hand signers inline with car's signers to communicate with other annoyed car's drivers so that they may swallow back their anger with ease. For example, use a thumbs-up signer to praise the driver who has given way to you. Use a peace or hand-up signer to compromise your driving mistake but don't ever use a middle-finger signer.
Another reader called Roadblocker wrote that roadblock are a necessity to weed out undesirable elements. He also said why must one panic when one sees a roadblock unless one has committed an offense, if one does not speed, one can always stop in time under any circumstances.
Roadblocker is seemed like a good citizen. But a good citizen does not always meet a good cop in good faith. I have an experience of being mistaken by policemen who were setting up a roadblock at a point of the north-south highway in order to "collect" those over-speeders. They blocked me and wanted to book me for over-speeding and so I was furious at the time because I had been driving within the speed-limit all the time during my journey. A frontal argument was therefore exchanged and finally another good cop came to give way by telling that they might have had mistakenly spotted my car which has the same or similar characteristics in model and color with the one which has been zoomed. Where usually police place their roadblock? I don't have much idea but I understand that there will occasionally be having some policemen using their bodies as a roadblock located just 3-5 meters away from an invisible corner at the end of Jln. Todak 2 in Seberang Jaya. In such a circumstance, once you have taken the corner, then you will certainly right away be panicked to pad you break when you suddenly saw policemen just in front of you. Would you not to be panicked under this kind of situation?
However, traffics here are so defective, by then who is who to be blamed? The educators.
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