PETALING JAYA: A bus rammed into the back of five cars during a traffic jam, causing a six vehicle pile up on the Federal Highway.
In the 4.45pm incident on Sunday, the driver of a Rapid KL bus lost control and rammed into the cars braking in front of him at KM5.4 of the highway.
"Fortunately no one was injured," he said when contacted on Sunday.
Police are currently investigating the cause of the crash.
The traffic situation in the Klang Valley is going to get worse with or without MRT.
My Comments
Yes it is old news but a very relevant as Federal Highway
which starts from Kuala Lumpur passes thru Petaling Jaya , Subang , Shah Alam
and finishes at Klang is an accident trap as the grid lock with the traffic jam
day and night is beyond belief. 3 lanes
on each side and bottlenecks at every slip ways exits and entry points from the
towns it passes thru. Unofficially it is the largest Car Park in Malaysia.
Everyday accidents minor accidents with multiple vehicles
involved and major accidents weekly or more often. Nothing have been done but
more obstacles in placed to create obstructions to the smooth moving of the
traffic with Tolls in Shah Alam and Klang and these toll points have 10 lanes on each side. Yes when
money is to be collected more lanes better as more money can be collected but
the chaos it create with at the toll booths with different payment systems.
Cars running thru Touch N go, Smart tag get stuck because insufficient amount
in their toll cards and creating traffic jam on this lane. Have 40 of 50 cars
in the lane and when the idiot who have no sufficient money in his card need to
back up , so do 40 or 50 vehicles behind him. Yes can see idiots at the Toll
Plaza everyday every hour.
Our Road planners who design the roads and highways have
limited intelligence; reason is this traffic problem keeps repeating and due to
the mediocre Universities in Malaysia with their mediocre lecturers.
Get ready of the toll plaza and save money on manpower and
other cost by following and using the tool collection system used in Singapore and
Australia. Equip all cars and all new cars to come with a Card desk top reader
and built overhead gantries to electronically deduct the toll amount, without
hindering the traffic. Station cameras and make an offence for vehicle drivers
to hog the fast lane while driving slowly and also no heavy vehicles or trucks
expect on the slow lane and totally ban motorcycles on the highways except on
emergency or bicycle lanes. Motorcyclist need to die needlessly. Motorcyclist
sometimes ride their motor cycles on the
blind side of motorist and also when rain they follow big vehicles as not to
get drench in rain but when vehicles stops suddenly bang and motorcyclist on
the road and come next vehicle from behind , no time to stop and drives over
the motorcyclist and kills him. Another accident and worse traffic snarl is
caused.
Expand the Federal highway and build a MRT along the Federal
highway from KL to Port Klang and run parallel with the Highway and stations
with drop off exit points on the inside
and not facing or along the highways and with overhead bridges for passengers
to go on either side of the highway.
All it need to solve this problem is a bit of intelligence
and if need to be hire some experts to help to slow these traffic jams from
countries with proven records in solving these traffic grid locks. Swallow the
pride and ask Singapore to send a team of road experts to help to solve our
traffic problems and educate the lecturers in the Universities also
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