The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) has intensified its enforcement at bus terminals, airports, city centres and highways for the Chinese New Year festive season, Bernama reports. The commission is working in collaboration with JPJ and the police in the special Chinese New Year Joint Operations, which aims to prevent road accidents during the hectic holiday period.
According to minister in the prime minister’s department, Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri, SPAD’s enforcement team has begun conducting checks on counters as well as inspecting documents at bus terminals.
“To monitor express bus safety compliance and driver behaviour, undercover operations and patrolling at selected locations are also being carried out,” she said. The operations, which began on January 21 and runs until February 5, will include round-the-clock operations from January 27 to February 1, she added.
Since the start of the programme, a total of 27 cases have been recorded, including the arrest of a tout. A total of 383 vehicles were screened, while eight enforcement officers had gone undercover on four express bus journeys, Nancy said.
She stressed the government will not hesitate to apply the maximum force of the law on land public transport operators who flouted safety regulations.
“The government wishes to remind land public transport operators and bus captains that they have a very important role to play in enhancing the safety of their passengers. In addition to ensuring that they adhere to safety rules stipulated in SPAD’s ICOP (Industrial Code of Practice), express bus operators must also ensure their drivers adhere to speed limits at all times,” she stated.
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Thank you SPAD for going all out to protect the rakyat’s interests. Bravo. Kudos. Syabas. We owe you every single drop of blood in our veins, demi keharmonian masyarakat majmuk yang unik hanya terdapat di negara kita. Selama menyambut tahun baru kepada semua etnik tionghua dan salam 1Malaysia. Dengan ingatan tulus ikhlas, Faiz Roslan CEng.
Good to hear this. Well done.
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Excellent news! Throw them in prison for life if possible.
Best news so far
MALI ANGPAU MALI ..
those officers undercover, how are they going back after they arrived at another state? need to stay overnight or directly come back?
Just take the next scheduled bus back.
Last night around 11.30pm, from JB to KL stretch. Massive jam nearby to Ayer Keroh rest area. Jamming for around 20mins, 2km to 3km long. Its because SPAD close the lanes and all traffic merge to 1 lane. SPAD 4X4 park on 1 side and 1 officer just standing and looking at the massive traffic jams created for nothing. No inspection, no screening, nothing. Why SPAD create jam towards festive season? Why SPAD can’t plan and do earlier but wait when traffic building up? Why SPAD create traffic jams instead of doing proper and meaningful operasi? Why PLUS allow SPAD to create traffic jam and inconvenience thousands and thousands of rakyat?
The undercover tactic works best. Should put more officers on undercover to nab those touts and bus drivers who drive dangerously. Not enough staff ??? Go work with PDRM and get more manpower. After all, we taxpayers are paying their salary regardless of SPAD and PDRM. When you are in the bus, you can observe other cars who use the emergency lane too, then take down the number plate and saman them. This is call efficient enforcement.
SPAD = Seasonal job. CNY, raya and school holiday only work
Was on North South Highway the last two days. From KL to JB and back, saw at least 7 SPAD patrols, 11 police patrols and multiple JPJ patrols as well as TMJ’s 6×6. 5 hidden speed traps, a lot of roadworks constructions that caused the traffic to standstill. Kudos to all of the security enforcement officers but…
I’ve been tailgated and overtaken by buses, lorries and trucks while I’m doing 110kmph. The thoughts that came across my mind was a video (http://9gag.com/gag/aRKnbZM/what-happens-when-truck-suffer-brake-failure) and I then imagined what would happen if a truck carrying 40 tonnes load crashes onto the support pillar of a fly over at 120kmph? At that point I realized, we need more passive system at work instead of active systems like patrols and roadblocks.
I propose:
1) mandatory speed limiter on all commercial vehicles.
2) mandatory full time GPS to SPAD server logging, where an alert will signal off to SPAD whenever a commercial vehicles exceeds the determined speed limit of the road (eg:50kmph in housing areas).
3) mandatory 360 degrees camera to be installed on all commercial vehicles.
The reasoning is simple. Everybody slacks off when nobody is watching, so make it in such a way they can’t break the rules even when there isn’t anybody around. This way officials to drivers cant bribe their way around it without obvious consequences.
On top of that your agency could make more money as well, monthly fees that is charged to the commercial vehicle owners. Great excuse here for you, ‘implementing to protect the people, from road users to pedestrians, axing the opportunity to break the law by making it impossible to do it in the first place’. What more can I say? Making money while keeping people safe and reducing the burden on your agency at the same time?