1st World Aspirant, 3rd World Mentality - Edition 2

Legitimate Road-Hogger?

More often than not, excavators are the culprits for hogging the traffic during peak-hours resulting in beeline of vehicles behind them. Impatient drivers of these vehicles overtake precariously which could endanger the lives of other road users. Although excavators' owner pay road taxes too, shouldn't the authorities (JPJ) look into measures requiring excavators travelling on busy roads at certain hours only so as to ease congestion?

Whose is responsible to clear this mess?

This distasteful sight has been greeting me for months whenever I'm on the way to work every morning and it is just one of the many found at road dividers on major streets leading to the JB city. The displaced bunting at the bottom was continuously ignored despite that the one at the top has been replaced a couple of times.

Exactly who is responsible to clear this mess? Workers supposedly engaged by contractors commissioned by the local authorities (MPJBT) were seen clearing rubbish nearby but clearly, none of them are interested to address this matter. Is the supplier who install the lower bunting responsible for it? As far as I know, fees were paid to the MPJBT for permits to install these buntings. Then, shouldn't the responsibility to clear the mess lie with MPJBT when the permits expire?

Blatant defiance of law

This is a familiar sight almost every morning along Jalan Skudai somewhere at Tampoi when you are on the way to the JB city during peak-hours. Bus drivers are the main culprit, owing to the size of their vehicles are so commonly seen jumping queues without hesitation and are also leading the pack of other smaller vehicles.