People will be grateful if new govt can tackle traffic chaos
towns are choked with cars, yet we have Perodua and Proton wanting to boost car sales.
Perodua said it sold 75,500 cars in the first four months of the year, up 17 per cent from last year.
It is confident of reaching its fullyear target of selling 208,000 units.
We can’t blame them for that, but us road users do not enjoy it. I am aghast at hearing such numbers.
Cars hardly move during rush hour. Imagine what will the situation be at the end of the year.
Office workers take more than one hour to get to their offices.
During Ramadan, Muslims have to break their fast with just dates when they’re caught in jams.
Surely there is then a need to overcome this to minimise the times people are stuck in traffic.
While increasing the number of roads is the obvious thing to do, that is not the solution.
The obvious solution is to improve public transportation.
Improving the train services needs a huge budget, but if we want to tackle the problem, there is no other way.
We need to improve and expand train services to encourage more people to use trains.
This means train stations have to be near housing areas and offices.
Can we do this? Yes.
Hopefully, the new government can look into this and I am sure the travelling public will forever be grateful.
Improving the train services needs a huge budget, but if we want to tackle the problem, there is no other way.