But anyway, it reminded people about SMART whenever its rain, especially when theres flood, hahaha.

Furthermore, the BOCOR trend is now famous among msian contractors………

shall be read as,

"Normally there are first layer known as tack coat, 2nd is BINDER COURSE and 3rd is wearing course.

June 11, 2007 @ 10:37 pm

also, you can see the tunnel is supposed to be a storage for about 1.4million cubic metres of water. it’s supposed to offload water from klang river.

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This tunnel design with two deck for traffic and below for permanent water flow. The deck for traffic is technically call "dry run" and below the deck is "wet run". It is anticipate SMART will try to make traffic deck as "dry run" as long as possible for commercial reason. Time will proof it!

According to reliable intelligent sources from Engineer fraternity, the mechanism or mechanical installation for storm tunnel from Klang River around Ampang area haven’t complete yet. In other word, the tunnel is not fully complete or to be more diplomatic, it is partially completed for the following “reasons”: -

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Hahaha by the time the following "reason" achieved, KL might already been submerged under the flood water…

June 11, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

so now that this tunnel is officially opened, can the authorities please explain the entire procedure for activating the flood mitigation system? i hear people keep saying “what if cars get stuck in the tunnel?”

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This tunnel is call SMART which is likely "storm management in disguise", as I am in the following opinion the real agenda is to built toll road: -

1. This stretch is super heavy traffic flow that can earn a good revenue. Say on average 200k car use the tunnel a day both way.

Say 1st to 2nd year offer "teaser rate" to commuters = 200k x RM 2.00 x 365 days x 2 = 292 Million

3rd to 4th year increase to RM 3.20 (60%) = 233.60 Million x 2 = RM 467.20 Million.

5th to 6th year increase to RM 4.80 (50%) = RM350.40 Million x 2 = RM 700.80 Miilion.

In between this period, our honourable Samy Vellu will announce cmpensation to SMART due to use as flood mitigation and subsidize the rate which in the agreement should be higher, say it is RM 250 Million.

SMART operate from 1st to 6th year total gross revenue = RM 1.71 Billion! Walaueh, a big whopping sum! The cost is only around RM 1.20 billion. Really exemplary smart!

Deduct all the operational and other cost, SMART breakeven is expected to achieve on 6th year of operation, or around 17% of rate of return. Damn smart investment! From 7th year onward, "buat untung tak payah modal".

2. Until prior to today and official tol collection on 15th June 07, as recently as within one month there are two flood that created havoc to city centre. And last sunday flood is the worst in history even flooded praying area of Masjid Jamek. The most perplexing question as to why this so call SMART tunnel is not use to divert this heavy storm?

a. According to reliable intelligent sources from Engineer fraternity, the mechanism or mechanical installation for storm tunnel from Klang River around Ampang area haven't complete yet. In other word, the tunnel is not fully complete or to be more diplomatic, it is partially completed for the following "reasons": -

i) The storm or flood section haven't finish yet, perhap it is not a "priority". That is the reason why current flash flood in the city centre, the SMART tunnel "do nothing about" it.

ii) Priority is to complete the road section first to collect money as soon as possible. Whilst City centre faced worst flood, SMART tunnel still passable by motorist! Really Malaysia Boleh! Money come first, society well being take a back seat!

b) I drive through this tunnel at least 10 time both way, I observed perhaps the only traffic light underwater (when use as flood tunnel) in the world can be found in this tunnel. There are enough lighting but lack of signage to guide first time user. In the event this tunnel really use as diversion of storm water (in practice, SMART may minimize it), that mean all are flooded and all this lighting are water proof. After flooding, then it is a nightmare for SMART to do maintenance works, on road surface they may have cleaning vehicle to clear the mud. But for wall, ceiling, traffic light and lightings, likely it must be clean manually. That means if use as 1 time for water flow, the tunnel need at least 1 week to clean it. Toll lost is RM 2.8 million + cleaning cost! Ha, ha, ha, lost of revenue and additional cost incurr. It is a "very bad commercial" decision to act as storm water diversion!

"Do you smell what the G/SMART is cooking"?

So, for those in the opinion RM 2 is cheap, including Paul Tan, don't be kidding and deceive by this "teaser rate"! The volume is there and the money flow like water is there!

As for rough concrete surface. This is due to technical reason. Tar or bitumin material characteristic is it is "porous", "flexible" and make of mixing of agreegate and bitumin. Normally there are first layer known as tack coat, 2nd is base layer and 3rd is wearing coarse. If this bitumin road is submerge in the water for long duration (during use as storm diversion), it is easily peel off and damage, normally have famous "hole" or "crocodile crack". So, SMART is right by not using tar road, but simply concrete surface only!

So obviously the taxpayers are paying double for this tunnel. The question is, how effective is this tunnel going to be in ensuring KL city doesn't flood in the places it's supposed to work in and what are the solutions to the other places that are constantly being flooded? Do we build more flood mitigation tunnels? If one project like this already costs RM1.3 billion, just for the flood mitigation purpose, is it worth it and can it be duplicated for other areas? Obviously the cost is too high to even consider other areas.

So as a flood mitigation solution, it's uncertain if it's going to be effective. And as a solution for motorists, it's a give and take situation. It's going to cut travelling time tremendously but just don't get caught in an accident or a traffic jam.

Is it a failure then? Only time will tell.

have a look at that site. still doesn't explain how the flood mitigation system is activated. what is the procedure? some team will drive through the tunnel and check to ensure all traffic and people are clear before closing the gates. is it? how to identify them?

also, you can see the tunnel is supposed to be a storage for about 1.4million cubic metres of water. it's supposed to offload water from klang river.

unfortunately yesterday's flood was at gombak river. aiyoyo…another smart tunnel there for another rm20 million?

whao….

June 11, 2007 @ 4:42 pm

All of the audience of your blog now “sakit mata” with your advertisement in this blog…

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Wei! How do you know other people "sakit mat", Lu sahaja "sakit mata" , mata saya tak sakit.

Thought of this idea because Sandakan's road is under construction that turning tar road to cement road in certain roads in the main town.

Tar not able to last longer compare to cement so that is why you can see alot of holes in Malaysia's road. And you must be asking why dont use cement for all the roads in Malaysia?

Well..go to those shop that sells house-renovation utensil/material to ask how much per-pack of cement and calculate the total of Malaysia's road length…

By the way, Sandakan is a so-called "Natural City" located in the East Sabah.

Irkeez said,

June 11, 2007 @ 4:42 pm

Shy on you Mr Paul Tan. You are so materialistic. You sacrifice your blog for BMW advertisement only for the money. You are not the real man who love your blog. All of the audience of your blog now “sakit mata” with your advertisement in this blog… If you want money, go to work la…ok.

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I think nowadays ads are part of our life. 90% of our time, we will see ads. so, i think i'm ok with it. i think mr paul don't force us to buy the bmw by putting the ads there. at least this blog is free. maybe you prefer a blog that have subscription fee with no ads at all. but i still prefer free since nothing is cheaper than free.

Back to my secondary schools few years ago which owns more than hundred years old aging, the floor was build by cement too, and guess what, all the floor turns to shinny and slippery once water on it and it is hardly noticable when expose to the sun(light). WHY?

Because more than 150K of students wear rubber type of school shoe to walk all the floor in the schools more 100 years EVERYDAY..The rubber tore out the roughness of the floor, once the floor is wet, rubber sort of most dangerous material to be contact with.

The road's roughness might can resistant more than 100 years for the theory i mentioned above.

Do you guys think the contruction thought of this matter and the solution??? Comment please..

The most important thing for the tunnel is, eliminating traffic along the Seremban highway and reduce floods in KL. I remembered that this tunnel was suppose to act as a main exit for floodwaters in KL, but i doubt it's doing that good a job.

a) Huge taxation for cars

b) Annual road Tax

'Irkeez said,' I think is your 'otak sakit' lah… why don't you try to setup your own blog & try to maintain it & see how it works…. don't simply talk cxck… Paul is a real man love women & girls! Irkeez, you need to love your shoes, pants or else you are not a man…??

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ingolstadt said,

June 11, 2007 @ 1:27 pm

As for the 3 to 1 exit, i can foresee huge jams.

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Hi Bro, this foreseen huge jams are their SMART plan calculation for few years later to raise up the concern to built another tunner because jams…. another time to suck $$$… see the tricks…. This is the same things happen to penang bridge where all heavy traffic lane make become single lane exit or entrance & jammed at bottle neck.

June 11, 2007 @ 4:42 pm

Shy on you Mr Paul Tan. You are so materialistic. You sacrifice your blog for BMW advertisement only for the money. You are not the real man who love your blog. All of the audience of your blog now “sakit mata” with your advertisement in this blog… If you want money, go to work la…ok.

Irkeez, i believed running this blog required some sort of $ also…N IF U THINK IS A SOUR TO UR EYES SEEING THIS BLOG WITH ADVERT, THEN U CAN SIMPLY GET OUT OF HERE..

IF UR EYES SOURED, GET LOST LAR….OK.

As for the cement pavement, it actually cost more than tar/bitument. So, don't say it's cheap. Of course, all for the long lasting of it.

Do stick with the speed limit. Not sure if those cameras double as a speed trap. Do you want to take the chance, aside from jeopardising other users?

Mana boleh charge charge charge only….Why we still have to pay for solution of avoiding traffic jam?.. Whose fault?..Why not Do something Free of charge one bro.! Think deeper lah SemiValue.

The maintenance cost of Tunnel is very Expensive, if the tariff number is low, hard to believe it can earn back the investment and keep good maintenance. SemiValue don't know how to do the simple calculation, Maybe it takes more than 20 years? At the end all come from Tax payers.

As we all knew that the tolls will be increased soon, but slowly slowly ……soon will be RM4 or RM5. Sikit-sikit lama lama jadi Bukit.