The Road Transport Department (JPJ) will be ramping up enforcement against emergency lane abusers, according to a report in The Sun. The department is also continuing its zero tolerance policy against queue jumpers in heavy traffic, said JPJ enforcement director Datuk Valluvan Veloo.
“We are also welcoming public feedback. In fact, complaints on emergency lane offenders are close to 80% for the total number of public complaints on traffic matters that we have received in the past few months,” he said. Operations included static and mobile JPJ patrol teams at four locations – the Kesas Highway, Elite Highway, Federal Highway and Jalan Istana in Kuala Lumpur.
“These are the areas that are commonly known of having lane abusers during evening peak hours. So we hope with road traffic enforcement, road users will comply to traffic laws and show respect to other motorists too,” said Valluvan.
During the two-hour operation from 5 pm yesterday, 33 drivers received summonses on the Federal Highway heading towards the city centre, while summonses were also issued to 20 drivers along the Kesas and Elite highways, and 19 summonses were issued on Jalan Istana.
All summonses were issued under Rule 53 of the Road Traffic Rules 1959 – the summonses each carry a fine of a maximum of RM2,000 or jail time not less than a year, and those issued the summonses will be requested to appear in court soon, the report says. “We are no longer issuing compounds of RM300. For emergency lane abusers, we are sending them straight to court,” Valluvan said.
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Very commendable move. I can see frequent operations by traffic police in Penang to nab these emergency lane abusers. JPJ and traffic police, please also do something about queue jumpers at the Udini roundabout underpass in Penang
How about cleaning your own house, first . everyone has gone thru greasing by your JPJ drivers licensing dept. after 50 years, still unable to put a stop to it. Do that and the public will be forever in your debt.
How about haphazard double/triple parking during Friday mid noon?? Datuk Valluvan, pls action!!
Then need to fine during Sunday mornings too, rite?
I sense jealousy here….
Nope. Just justice for all.
John, do U agree that we should summons any type of haphazard, double or triple parking on any given day so as to make it easy for the authority to do their job without FEAR or FAVOR !?
You’re right Mikey but sadly, this is Bolehland.
Please read again. Of course I agree for fining those who double/triple park! But why limit to certain group only? They shud do for alls, during Fridays noon, Sundays mornings, Thursday nights, every other special days as well. Do u agree or r u hypocrite?
Lan lantak laa..besok paking lagi. Huhuhuhuh
John, first of all, U should address a person if U are replying to that person. That is called courtesy.
Secondly, U are NOT reading or can’t comprehend what have been written.
Let me copy what has been written for U – “on any given day” means Mon-Sun.
You clearly have a problem understand English for not lack of reading BUT too much or fast commenting without truly understanding the true nature of the intended message.
glad to see my cousin doing the right thing
Saya Sokong JPJ on this. Please follow NIKE slogan of “JUST DO IT”
Awesome. These ‘people’ who think they’re smarter or have higher priority to get to where they’re headed to more than others need to be penalised heavily. I believe they will only learn their lesson by having their license revoked for 3-6 months. Money is no matter to people in BMW, Audi & Mercs.
As someone who reported 15 cars thanks to the convenience of my dashboard cam, i can tell you it isnt just the well-off ones who do it. Infact i daresay income level doesn’t matter as most of the time i am seeing standard 80-140k cars doing it. Ironically one of my report was a silver Preve driven by an actual polis inspector which i doubt action will be take on him.
Thumbs up. Don’t let up JPJ. Continuous instead of seasonal enforcement.
Bravo JPJ. I support 100% to send these offenders to court. Revoking license alone has no effect as they will continue to drive without a care. Hope the penalty imposed on the offenders will cause a major disruption on their daily lives so that they will remember not to repeat the offence.
Ask them to take on those heavy vehicles driving more than 100km/hr too. some even driving more than 130km/hr and with load of cargo or people, overtaking on the 3rd lane etc…
at that speed and load, their just like a moving bomb on the road…..
lets leave fridays and sundays out. parking is a problem in most places of worship. lets give and take.
Its the ‘give and take’ attitude that has led us to lawlessness, apathy and stupidity….. pls remember that!!
Do understand clearly what he said ok? It is not practical to waste so much for parking space for worship place that occasionally use. So just ‘give and take’ while it is being used, and it is not apply to Friday and Sunday only. Do you remember Thaipussam? No one My with relevant and tolerant mind will make that as an issue.
Please tolerate, ‘give and take’ bro ali. Just park further & walk. Jalan 3-lane jadi 1/2 lane…haiya
Even the futher roadside park also jalan 3 lane jadi 1 lane. So what to do? Keep calm and walk.. haha
It’s the lack of give and take that’s the real cause of much intolerance in this country.
LOL roads are for moving traffic. not “Tempat Letak Kereta” unless you r stuck on congested PLUS highway.
JPJ is doing a great job.
But our greatest menace on the road are the 200,000 Mat Rempits!!! What are you doing about them?? Please come down hard on them……
Well if in a “Really needed” situations then sometimes its hard to prevent. But i really sokong to take actions against some annoying drivers who like to abuse use the emergency lane just to overtake the slow drivers in front. At the same time, JPJ please advise the motorcycles bikers to TRY use the motorcycle lane. I dont really understand why some of the bikers strolling slow at middle of the highway fetching his fat wife, some of them even go into the temporary contra lane.
Anyone here or Paultan’s team know where we can submit complaints and videos of traffic offenders to JPJ?
Type “JPJ” into PT search box and click Search
email to [email protected]
with the plate number, location & time of the incident
There is plenty of double lane – single lane (bridge/junction) – double lane I need to go through to work everyday. And I used to drive in the slow lane. Whenever I shift from double lane to single lane, usually there is no room for me except to drive in the emergency lane due to congested traffic. Am I automatically become offender because of “abusing” the emergency lane?
1) Anticipate ur distance to the merge.
2) Signal well ahead.
3) Proactively inch closer to indicate intention to merge.
4) Spot opportunities to merge b4 the lane ends, and be decisive.
5) MY style: pls show the palm of hand. Pipu will appreciate it.
6) Eating into E lane is okay as long as u merge at 1st opportunity using Step 1~5. Authorities r not heartless.
I fully agree with you but unfortunately for my situation, traffic is slow and congested, while the road (state road) is not well-planned in the first place. The double lane for example is like about 200 metres before switching to single lane for about 50 metres and then back to double lane, so on and so forth.
If I keep on changing in between slow lane (of double lane) and single lane road back and forth, people will thought I drive like a moron.
And probably I might not be able to turn left at the last junction before I could reach my workplace, as the emergency lane is already occupied by long queue of cars (ya I am not the only one who drive like that, everyone who go the same direction like me will do so).
What I advised above is for slow & congested traffic. Once merged, if u can keep pace with the car ahead, just stick to the lane until about 2~2km from ur exit, then inch into the left lane, and then again inch slowly to the intersection.
As long as u drive safe and follow the rules, why the heck u bother about what others think of ur driving?
The fact that it’s happening in the first place shows how selfish this society is. Something in the genes? Upbringing? The “Malaysian Way”? This so-called crackdown won’t make a dent of difference. Not until we can get rid of the prevailing belief that “if someone else is doing it, why shouldn’t I ?” – it’s business as usual I’m afraid.