Dear Editor,
ONE Sunday I saw this
ridiculous Malaysian street scene near the roundabout at Australia Place, Kota
Kinabalu. The street was rather jammed that morning because of the weekly Gaya
Street market where the closed Gaya St would cause traffic jams on all the
other streets including the main road of Jalan Tunku Abd Rahman that joins the
Jalan Bypass.
The ridiculous incident was
the attempt to squeeze the large tourist bus led by a police car through this
street which is already jammed.
1. Who the hell were the
VIPs inside this tourist bus?
2. If they were really VIPs, why not use smaller
vehicle which can be practically squeezed through two rows of vehicles?
Ambulances and VIP mercedes can be done but big tourist bus?
Here are the simple physical
dimensions. The total width of the two lane road is 6 metres. Average width of
cars and other vehicle (excluding tourist coaches) = 1.8 metres
So if you ask the two rows
of vehicles to move close to the edge of the road you will have a space left as
follows: 6 - 2x 1.8 = 2.4 metres. Width
of the tourist bus = 2.5 metres.
Hence no matter how the
police yell at the ordinary motorist to move to the edge of the road, there is
still not enough width for the big bus. Then the bus was only able to move when
the fast lane was able to move out of the jam.
Therefore I conclude that
only in Malaysia we still have nincompoops running this country and causing
misery to the ordinary people.
Best Regards,
KDM PENAMPANG
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