Congestion Charge

It is kind of funny and hilarious to read that DBKL Mayor, Datuk Abdul Hakim Borhan suggesting to implement the congestion charge is KL town, and mentioned that this system is workable in Stockholm.

This Datuk must be diagnose with Parkinson disease or some sort of the same for him to have such thought this will work in KL itself. If comparing Stockholm and KL, their public transport and service system is almost complete and is easily accessible from one place to another, and hence implementing a congestion charge can reduce the traffic flow within town. Has datuk ever investigate or kind enough to check on the public services around KL town? There are so many unconnected route or places within KL itself, let alone Klang Valley.

If KL were to implement congestion charge, all I can see is DBKL will make millions from it and yet traffic is still remain the same within the city, as it will be EXTREMELY inconvenient for people to move around KL city using public transport. Punctuation of public transport is another factor where restrain people from using them as time lost during transition of public transport is unpredictable and hence more time will be lost and inproductive.

For countries that implemented this congestion charge, they have already have a complete, or close to complete public transport system, so when they implement this charge, people will soon accept them as they found it is not much different and save cost for travelling. Just take Singapore town as example, their MRT and buses services is almost complete, and can reach virtually every part of the town, hence there is not require to drive into town for carrying out their duties / work. If KL town can achieve the same, then people will soon find it is worth paying if driving into town, otherwise, it will only add into our already extremely high burden.

Another hilarious statement is that datuk mentioned motorists will accept it after some times because they wil find it works. He is damn true about motorists accepting the charges, as everyone knows, there is no choice but to only pay the charges. These charged fees will go into DBKL account and still we are not sure if they will use the money to improve the public services. And I think this stupid datuk is don't even know how and where to start this god damn system as you may see from his statement, just implement the system and people will accept it sooner or later.

Do we really have choices to oppose the system? Yes but that's only as far as it goes to some small little column in the newspaper, and No, the implementation is imminent. What a stupid philosophy!

So datuk hakim, I would strongly suggest you to visit one of the brain specialist to have your brain scanned to avoid you speak uncontrollably and childishly.