It appears some of our Malaysian ministers are not fans of Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor’s recent proposal to allow legalised motorcycle street racing in Kuala Lumpur.
The Federal Territories Minister said previously the government is considering closing roads in the city once a week, and setting that aside for motorcycle racing. The night track is said to be modelled after the bi-weekly ‘Car-Free’ morning in KL.
In a report by The Star, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that public roads were not the right place to carry out racing, as it is an extreme kind of activity.
As such, any form on racing should be conducted on a proper track that meets certain safety requirements, he said, and called for the proposal to be discussed further. “Speed kills. Go to a racing circuit to race and not at any public area,” he stated.
Liow also supported Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar’s proposal for stricter punishment against unlicensed motorists, and welcomed constructive suggestions on making the roads safer. “There are various programmes such as MyLesen to enable motorists to get a licence,” he said.
In a separate report, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said it is not feasible to allow or even provide Mat Rempit with a place to race, especially in a central business district within KL.
“If it produces the same public nuisance and noise, then you go back to square one and people will not be happy. It will also have adverse effects and jeopardise daily lives. Are you saying that if we cannot beat them, then join them? I don’t think so,” he explained.
Wee added that these Mat Rempit should be educated with the right values, rather than being allowed to race. Furthermore, providing a venue for them to race was not the point because this was not the thrill that the Mat Rempit were looking for.
“Even if a stadium is provided for them, they would not like it either. They want people to watch them and this is very important to them, even though it is very dangerous and risky. They enjoy it. This is the attitude and the mentality of most Mat Rempit,” he said.
Do you agree with what our ministers have to say on the matter? What are your thoughts on Tengku Adnan’s proposal to allow legalised motorcycle street racing in Kuala Lumpur?
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Rubbish proposal by rubbish minister resulted ended in rubbish dump. Waste of time. Pls do propose things that will benefit Malaysian! Instead wasting your elected years!
Actually it was not only Jabba the Hut that proposed this. Other Ministers, who are mainly bodoh, taught it was a great idea.
With the backlash from the public, all the Ministers, mostly who got no bola, all pusing now and say, it is such a bad idea to legalise rempit.
You see, the Ministers all want to protect their own children, whom mostly are thugs and rempits. One example is Minister nazri’s son, Nedim. He also, rempit. Most of the Minister’s kids like that. Money easy come, easy go. At a young teenage age, they themselves have millions and drive cars like Porsche.
If they are not rempitting with their powerbikes, they are speeding with their Porsches and racing along Kesas.
Gov shud make Sepang’s 4th circuit as low-mid power motor racing circuit & change only RM10 per entry. Refueling & mech maintenance can be done inside & oso with cafeteria.
Oso have polis/referees to ensure no gang fights and all race fairly.
Get some friendlier rempit groups to try it out and let them spread the word. If more & more join, soon all rempits will wanna go there. Then make all states have this mini circuit concept (except Png, cuz they hi keras only race with vios & myvi).
Winners of each states will then go to national finals at Sepang main circuit. Win-win for every1.
Hey, don’t forget our friendly Crack smokers togather also!… doing crack legally in your new proposal. Win win for us also, Brader!
actually a decent sounding idea john
It is very interesting to note that we are allowing ourselves to discuss values promulgated by corrupt and inept individuals. These leaders are not keen on resolving issues for the long-term and advocate clear values that a mature society should adopt, this is exactly the kind of leadership that brings systemic failure by allowing ‘self-centered’, irresponsible,loutish attitudes prevalent in our culture today. People should object to these silly shenanigans, traffic rules should cater to the well-being and sensibilities of traffic management, ease of use of road systems,enforcement, educating road users on civic mindfulness and advocating the right human values towards a better traffic orchestration and laws.
A proposal for a 3rd world city, by politicians who are and represent the 3rd world mentality group.
Teuku Adnan please get your priority right..
Get more people to work in KL, reduce motor vehicles into KL, improve public transportation into KL, bring sustainable development into KL, reduce crime rate in KL, build affordable homes for KLites..
And spell your name right. It’s Teuku, not Tengku.
If not for all the backlashes and criticisms from nearly all quarters, they would have make it come true. Believe those clowns to do the unthinkable.
i dont understand the logic of this idea. you legalise racing so you can regulate illegal racing nevertheless but aren’t completely forgetting the fact that it is dangerous and it can cause broken limbs or even death to the riders themselves or people passing by or even those spectators?
MCA people talking can’t get the airtime from other publications and need paultan to give some exposure?
.oh… pity…
Ok…good idea. .why not?in Malaysia. ..everything bad is good and good is bad….that what some our minister think!!!…. Malaysia bolen !!!!
– There are … ENOUGH DEATHS… on our public roads…
– If someone wants to race, then they have to go to somewhere custom-built for that purpose…
– Furthermore,… these Mat Rempits,.. have to be trained & guided by racing professionals for their safety.. for example, people like Sonny Soh, etc.