The government said that it spent RM27.8 million on improving road safety last year, the amount being used to carried out rehabilitative work in 60 accident prone locations on main roads and highways. According to Works Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, this was part of the government’s efforts to boost the level of road safety in the country, Bernama reports.
“The government and I personally are very concerned and sad at mishap cases, especially those involving deaths and causing grief to the victims’ families,” he said, adding that while better roads were important, so was the attitude of road users. He said that it was not worthwhile to have first class highways and roads but have motorists who did not adhere to the regulations.
Fadillah also said that the ministry had issued a stop work order at major highways for 14 days, beginning from February 1, saying the measure was taken to ease congestions on the highways due to construction and maintenance works. “However, critical work is exempted (from the stop work order),” he explained.
He added that the ban on heavy vehicles on major roads and highways for four days this month, on February 6-7 and February 13-14, will be enforced by the Road Transport Department (JPJ).
Please also have regulations on those LED advertisement boards. Some are too bright especially those along the Federal Highway. I had to use the sunshade at 6.15 am!
“government said that it spent RM27.8 million on improving road safety last year” Just wondering how much “donation” that Work Ministry received?
Abang polis and JPJ got 5times of RM27.8 million during their Ops Derma.
The whole nation spent RM 27mil on road safety while the PM easily pay his RM 3mil credit card debt (not even his own money).
Nothing problem with it… i looked at the advertisement when jam only. maybe u need to check ur eye coz some ppl got glaring problem.
just to show how much this Govt value the lives of its citizens…. RM27.8million is peanuts….
they can waste billions on white elephants or even make it disappear into a blackhole….
If they really give a damn about our safety in this country, Make minimum of 6 airbags and Vehicle Stability Control MANDATORY on all new vehicles. just because we are a third world country, safety is a luxury? start educating malaysians on modern day safety technology such as collision prevention systems, lane keeping assist and everything else!
wow imagen if we use 2.6 billion
Please put all the expenses, cost and locations in your website so we all can appreciate it!
RM27.8 mil spent on improving road safety last year but….
RM2.6 billion is given to mr Jibby!
so there is nothing to boast about the RM27.8 million. It is about RM1 spend on each citizen.
RM2.6 billion is all given to 1 person!
We have all the necessary laws in place. Still need to spend more money? I am not saying Singapore is perfect but one thing they are good at is law enforcement.
Anything wrong, just fine. Keep on doing that and after a few generations, the society will improve. Everytime make new laws but no enforcement or the “hangat-hangat tahi ayam” type of enforcement. After that, give huge discount when perpetrators do not pay the fine after a long time. Where is the logic in that? We have over 1 million civil servants and still this cannot be done?
By fining, then some people can get income, especially after “forced” to return USD620M. This income can jolly well help to sustain the huge numbers of civil servants.
every man woman and child is worth less than RM1 on road safety to our govt. utter shambles!
“The government said that it spent RM27.8 million on improving road safety last year, the amount being used to carried out rehabilitative work in 60 accident prone locations on main roads and highways”
Should they pay by their own money? Why use gov money? Where the toll collected?
Perodua close shop will immediately reduce numbers of accidents on the road.