police to get tough on road offenders

according to the deputy director of internal security and public order deputy commissioner, datuk arthur edmonds, one way of keeping dangerous motorists who break the laws, off the road, is to seize their vehicles. he seemed to be fed up of the ‘soft approach’ of educating the public road users, and now decided to resort to this stiffer measures.

DCP edmonds said that motorists who beat traffic lights, drive dangerously, drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and inconsiderately use emergency lanes were likely to have their vehicles seized.

i feel that it is about time the police come up with such stiffer measure. everyday while i travel to and fro from house to work (in a car driven by my sister), i encountered so many motorists who beat the traffic light and who use the emergency lanes. beating the traffic light i don’t really care but i am very mad and frustrated at motorists who use the emergency lanes. most of the time travelling after work, there is a jam here and there, and it was during traffic jam, that i see so many impatient motorists using the emergency lane. unlike the federal traffic chief senior assistant commissioner II, koh hong sun, who only fumed that one day during the 1st day of CNY, when he was driving along the north-south expressway and encounter this problem, i have to fume almost everyday.

i stay in bayan baru and work in the city in macalister road. it is usually during the trip from work to house when using the bayan baru coastal road or jalan udini roundabout, that i spy lots of motorists using the emergency lanes. why are they so impatient? why do they think by using the emergency lane they can get by the jam? in fact, by using the emergency lane, they are creating another lane, and it make the jam worst!! yes, and because lots of them are using the emergency lane, not only a few. if a few, yes, they can zoom by and beat the jam but it seems so many of them too have the same idea, wants to use the emergency lane. i get very ‘geram’ when there i was sitting in the car, in the line of queue waiting and waiting for the car to move when suddenly on my left, zoom past a car using the emergency lane.

this happens everyday where there are traffic jams, and if the police really want to nab them, they (police) would have made lots of money! now with this soon going to be implemented directive to seize their vehicles, i wonder will it frightened the motorists? will that made them more wary of using the emergency lanes? ah… but the more pertinent question to ask is will the police be alert on their duty? as it is now, it happens so rampantly and yet we see the police doing nothing (actually i mean no spy the police among the traffic jam).

i fully support these stiffer measures on traffic offenders but i hope after the implementation, the enforcement would come in, but with the enforcement, it won’t be a case of ‘hangat-hangat tahi lalat ayam’!
(a bahasa proverb that is kind of similair to the english’s ‘new broom sweep clean’).

note: off topic – re: my blog on CNY songs in english, i had updated it with midi files for the 4 most popular songs, so you can now listen to the tune and sing-along, if you are not sure of the tune. thanks to wits0 who found the midis!