Transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai’s call to have all express and intercity buses equipped with a speed limiter with immediate effect has received the backing of the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD), The Star reports.
“The proposal by the Transport Minister is a good one as it is aimed at better safety for passengers,” SPAD chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar said. He added that authorities had been talking about implementing the use of speed limiters for more than a decade. “Maybe it is now time for the law to be implemented,” he said.
Last week, Liow said the use of speed limiters will be mandatory for all express and intercity buses. He said the ruling was already in place and should already have been implemented. He added that the installation of a speed limiter was not a costly affair, and there should be no reason for companies or operators to raise ticket prices.
The call to enforce the use of speed limiters on buses came after an incident involving a runaway bus that rammed into 10 cars on the downhill stretch near the North-South Expressway’s Menora Tunnel.
Syed Hamid said that the suspension of the bus company involved in the incident came into effect last Friday. “There is due process, and the letter issued was not for immediate suspension but for the notification of the process of suspension by SPAD,” he explained.
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You can have speed limiter, it makes no difference. JPJ, Puspakom and PDRM officers all take money and let the offenders lose. This is why Malaysia has 3 million drivers and motorcyclist with NO LESEN. The past 20 years, Polis have been taking so much of money from offenders ie duit kopi that the figure has balooned to 3 million now
In this bus accident, the PDRM and JPJ are solely responsible. Do you know that this particular bus has got 60 summonses that are not settled?
How did they renew the road tax?
You got the answer. It is duit kopi. The lazy JPJ who are corrupted should have long gone and arrested the owner of the bus company many years ago. 60 saman over the past few years for one bas is shocking.
Our lazy PDRM officers also should have gone and sent a team to investigate how come just one bus can have 60 saman.
My advice to PDRM and JPJ, instead of eating nasi lemak, relaxing in the office, looking for aweks and having 8 tea breaks eating kuih lapis and kuih talam, please take the initiative to prevent accidents.
This accident could have been prevented. 60 samans for 1 bus is not normal
Hundreds of lorry hantu kill hundreds of people in Malaysia every year. Whenever JPJ or Polis catch these lorry hantu, the illegal Indon driver just give duit kopi to settle the saman. So, the driver continues his illegal driving.
So ambil duit kopi does cause accidents after all and deaths!
Wah, Syed Hamid so caring and supporting Liow Tiong Lai. Siap terlepas cakap they were talking about it for a decade then saying, maybe, just maybe should implement the law.
One question: Which bloody agency is responsible to enforce the law?
Everytime when there is big accidents involving heavy vehicles – the ministers, JPJ, SPAD will all come out in full force giving ideas on how to reduce accidents. Implement this implement that. All talk, no action.
Cakap pandai. Implementation and enforcement time, no action.
Mahacronies will be affected. Inb4 inkambing demo by Party Harders at SPAD HQ.
With or without the limiters, if the driver drive dangerously, accidents will still happen
boring boring
speed cut what the eff u are talking about
last time they say got speed this speed that on buses except that those devices are never there
talk cock all the time
Talk..talk..talk…no solution..
with speed limiter..soon you will see buses hogging the lane…because all buses travelling at the same speed…hence cannot increase speed to overtake
limiter again? is this something new? big hoohaa bout this thing donkey years ago and now talk again?
Bullshit. Mandatory of jailing bus operator chairman, CEO and board of directors – confirm less of these accidents. Otherwise they will still use cheap unqualified and unlicensed drivers.
The recent bus accident (refer to photo) is not about overspending. If the bus was doing 70kmh, and going downhill just to find after one corner that traffic was standing still.
Nothing much he can do when the brakes had failed.
Believe me. An accident is the last thing that he wants in his whole working life.
I suppose you are right that an accident is the last thing he wants. In fairness, you acknowledged that the brakes had failed and there lies the problem… It shouldn’t have failed, especially if it’s well maintained. On top of that there’s also the problem with the outstanding summons that both the driver and the bus operator hasn’t settled. The problem now isn’t this accident but those that is to come, because history has again repeated itself, tidak-apa-attitude on all levels (driver > minister). And I say minister because this is not the first time the elected-party officials has failed us. As the leader of the ministry, they should be accounted for such failure, because this is clearly an internal problem. I say we should be allowed to vote for individual ministers instead of having a whole party hogging the ruling power, better to have the right people on the job than to have someone who’s there because their bff won. This would keep them on their toes and do a better job from top level down.
bloody hell all this ministers..only talk cock..only talk but no enforcement and most of the JPJ SPAD staffs only mau duit kopi..go to hell la those politicians
sembang la SPAD