Bus crashes into five cars on Federal Highway and the curse of the Traffic jams

Below from Star january 08,2017.

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.

City Traffic chief Asst Comm Mohd Nadzri Hussain said the momentum of the bus caused it to crash into the five cars in front of the bus.

"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