Maddy Tan

I am absolutely beyond tired but this issue has been on my mind for quite a considerable amount of time.

I get it everytime I'm driving and it flows melancholy outta my mind when I stop driving but lately, it has been bugging me to the point of irritation that I feel such a need to rant about it. I don't know about the rest of you out there, but the road conditions in Malaysia is absolutely abominable and utterly atrocious. My opinion anyway.

There are millions and zillions of potholes and broken edges all over, even on the major roads. How can one enjoy driving or at least to drive in a smooth manner, even if not in an enjoyable manner. KL has such a wide market for employment and almost everyone from all over differential states travel to KL each day for work purposes, amongst other things. All the highways and freeways are interstate linked and yet the roads are in such a bad condition. Needless to say the conditions regarding non-major roads.

Potholes are considered dangerous (especially when one is driving in a speedy manner) when they are vertically sided, and if more than 20mm deep, with a greater than 0.1 sq. m in principal road carriageways and 50mm deep in non-principal road carriageways. I find these conditions frequently when I'm driving, be it local or back to Penang. On top of that, it's also bad for tyres and suspension system. This conditions are even apparent when road works has just been completed. Unbelievable! You will find many broken edges and potholes on the very same road regardless of the fact that road works had previously been carried out. Can't the Councils just get it right !?

Perhaps some of you may think 'Welcome to Asia' or that I'm just a whinging cow but honestly, I think our local Council really ought to maintain a better and sound system on road maintenance as to enhance a facilitative manner to control the efficiency of our local traffic management and more importantly to increase a preventive measures to safeguard th normal occurence of accidents. And exactly what is what is road maintenance anyway. There are a number of activities which are classified as road maintenance, amongst other things to fix potholes, rough patches, broken edges, recoating of bitumen and concrete surfaces so as to render our road conditions reasonably safe to drive.