Tag Archives: Traffic

The PIE is a hot topic amongst my police friends. This expressway is a little different from the rest of the expressways in Singapore. Why? Lets touch a bit on the histroy,

On 17 Jul, a naked woman was seen wandering the streets of Upper Boon Keng. Male passers-by tried to get the woman to walk on the pavement. However, the woman ignored them and continued to walk on the road. It looked like she wanted to get herself hit by oncoming vehicles. She blocked the road and prevented a taxi and lorry from turning.

I was making a left turn at the t-junction near the Yishun VICOM inspection centre a black Camry turned out of VICOM and travelled against the flow of traffic. I had to jam on the brakes to avoid the collision. Even though I pointed out it was a one way lane, the errant driver insist he did nothing wrong, reversed his car, wound down the window and argued with me. Not wanting hold up the traffic, I drove off and stopped a short distance away.

I left house early for tuition in hopes to reach my tutee's house earlier. However, the feeder service at my area was delayed 20 minutes due to the oil spill at Woodlands. So I decided to cab to CCK once I reached Woodlands interchange. In the cab, halfway through the journey to the entrance of BKE, the traffic congestion was really bad and the vehicles were barely moving. I think he could see that I was panicking and then he decided to drop me off at some random bus stop and asked me to take the train instead because the jam definitely wouldn't clear anytime soon and also to save me from the meter fare. When I took out my wallet to pay, he rejected my money immediately and said it's okay and even told me to hurry to my tutee's house.

On 27/01/2016, 12.45pm, SHA8680J and Lorry GBA1148Y refused to given way to each other at Jalan Baiduri. As such, the residents (including me) were stuck along the road for nearly 20mins. This is the time where we are sending/picking our kids from school and they are causing massive delay and great inconvenience. Both refused to move their vehicles and chose to seat in the vehicles despite repeated requests from the resident.

I was on my way to work this morning and i caught a few vehicles parking illegally in No Parking Area, Double yellow lines and Season Parking Lots underneath my flat located in 668 Chander Road. I managed to get hold of one of Certis Cisco Wardens that were deployed there but he refused to summon those vehicles claiming those lots are under the charge of his colleague. He then tried to leave the scene with his motorbike without issuing any summon.

I was dropping off my client at woodlands centre beside KFC and was blocked by an EMAS Recover car. After horning the car few times to ask the vehicle to move as he was blocking the lane. I came out from the vehicle and realise that the driver wasnt in the vehicle.

A new road pricing system that relies on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology can help traffic management in many ways, said Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew on Monday (Nov 3), who told Parliament that it would not financially prudent to continue with the current Electronic Road Pricing gantry system in the long term.

Defending the ERP system in Parliament yesterday (9 Sep), Senior Minister of State for Transport Josephine Teo cited figures to justify the “effectiveness of ERP”. She said that more than three-quarters of the 74 ERP gantries have not had their rates changed in the last three years. Of the quarter of 74 ERP gantries that saw changes with 8 showed a discernible upward trend in rates, congestion in those roads was reduced. Speeds rose an average of 7% per dollar increase, she noted of the eight gantries.

At one stroke of the pen, the Malaysian government has managed to reduce dramatically the perennial traffic congestion on the Causeway, the blight of cross-border travelers for the last 40 odd years. This is miraculous indeed. The icing on the cake is that even with a spectacular fall in traffic volume, the Malaysian government is still raking in more revenue.