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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Sometimes you'd think that people are in authority because they know better, they are wiser, they are more capable, etc. You'd expect them to know what is better for the country, for the people. That's why we have government and councillors.

Now let's take the case of one such 'authority': The infamous Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ), "God of Summons Tickets". There's a section of roads in SS15 that are just so silly you wonder what they are there for. Well, to begin with, those roads weren't silly initially. Last time they looked like this:

Which was perfectly fine. The green boxes are TWO private colleges, the black boxes are shops and the arrows represent the traffic flow. A week or two ago, MPSJ decided to "make things better" (their synonym for "filling time to look busy so that we won't be accused of slacking"). So today they looked like this:

They changed the traffic flow at those two roads. The upper one becomes a one-way street and the lower one now flows in the opposite direction.

The effects:

Caterpillars now crawl faster than your car in the morning, afternoon, evening and early night.
Birds have more chance to shit on top of your roofs due to immobility.
You get to hear alot more different tunes of car horns...
...and also learn the different languages of cursing and swearing.

Best thing was, there were no prior warnings to the change in traffic flow. One fine morning, vehicles entered via the first purple arrow direction, only to be stopped by MPSJ "enforcement officers". At the same time, at the other end of the road, vehicles entered through the second purple arrow direction. No signboard, no advertisement, no notices, nothing.

Idiotic planning. The road is right in front of TWO private colleges, and what they essentially did was to contribute MORE traffic to that direction. While previously vehicles have a way to 'escape' from the yellow arrow road (using the first purple arrow direction), now they are contributing to congestion.

I haven't even mention the fact that at the outer highway (the road without arrows), vehicles can come IN towards the yellow arrow direction and towards the red arrow direction. There you go. More congestion.

Normally it takes me 15 minutes to reach Subang Jaya and another 5 minutes to reach the college. Now it takes me 15 minutes to reach Subang Jaya and 40 minutes to reach the college. And I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Thanks MPSJ, I really admire the brains your management has. Is it any wonder that I have 7 outstanding summons tickets since April 2004 and you haven't come after me at all?

Entry submitted. liuhua did it at exactly 12:07 pm


	tze January 27, 2006 10:47 PM PST I KNOW! i saw what they did and i was like WTH IS WRONG WITH THEM MAN? how does that even help traffic? it's like adding cars into the taylor's road. urgh.


	Izzy J January 27, 2006 12:04 AM PST Wow, worse traffic in M'sia. I hate bad traffic around schools. Ticks me off like insanely. It was bad enough at ISKL and UIS and ISHCMC. Baaargh. Dinky headed "people in power".

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