22 September 2005

Traffic Lights = Laughing Stocks ??


I've dwelt on the thoughts of writing this article for quite a while, but thinking and putting the thoughts down to pen are 2 different things ..... so whilst the inspiration and idea are still with me now, guess it's wise to scribble the idea down before being deserted by it ......

once again, the idea stemmed from the sheer frustration that kicked in whilst being stuck in traffic jam..:)...thanks to the hyper-active brain of mine, i can't help but sigh at the fact that there's been an influx of traffic lights in the proximity of the nearby residential area ,though the need of them clearly remains to be questioned ...

can u believe it ?? there are 4 traffic lights within a stretch of 200-300 meters .... i believe one needs not be a genius to see the hilarious side that lurks beneath, let alone those so-called EXPERTS that buried their heads for days and nights trying to squeeze every single drop of their ingenuity to conjure up an amicable solution for the traffic needs.....

traffic light does indeed solve some traffic problems ... but 4 t. lights within such a short stretch of road creates problems, rather than manoeuvers the traffic more efficiently... worse still, those traffic lights are not synchronized properly as the 1st and the 3rd have the same colour of light simultaneuously, while the same happens with the 2th and 4th... having said that, when it's green for the 1st , it's red for the 2nd...... not forgetting the fact that the distance between them is at most 150 meters ... so it's miraculous to NOT have traffic jams at those junctions, i suppose.....

i'm not an expert (far from it) in any sense regarding matters on solving the traffic jams, but i believe sometimes it requires merely common sense instead of expertise .... rather than putting up needless mechanisms recklessly which might turn out undesirably to be laughing stocks , it might be better to do more research first in bid to manoeuver a situation....

1 Comments:

Blogger Cirnelle said...

for a moment i thought u took that pic in penang. hilarious man. yeah i agree some streets in penang have simply TOO many traffic lights.

and another thing our dear government are very generous with is - Bumper on roads. man..hate them.

6:15 PM  

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