A month-long study on the separators installed on the Kuala Lumpur cycling lanes will be carried out by the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS). The agency has had a meeting with Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) regarding this issue, said MIROS acting director-general Dr Siti Zaharah Ishak and reported by Bernama.
The cycling lane separators attracted controversy recently when road-users began posting on Facebook alleging it was the source of accidents, mainly amongst motorcyclists. The separators were installed to demarcate the cycling lanes and prevent encroachment into the lane by other road users.
In an immediate about-turn, the lane separators were removed by DBKL after several reports in the press and online media. The cycling lane was created ahead of the ninth World Urban Forum to be held on February 7 to 13 for the use of delegates attending the conference, and will remain part of the road infrastructure to be used by cyclists in the central business district.
“We are not directly involved in its implementation because most local authorities have their own team of experts,” said Dr Siti, speaking to reporters at the Kawasaki Road Safety Campaign in Sungai Besi. “However, the incident involves road safey, so MIROS will be involved…in that study, we will look further from the aspect of road engineering, weather as well as the materials,” she continued.
In other news, it was mistakenly reported in a local print daily that the cost of the cycling lanes was RM4 billion. A correction was later made with RM 4 million posted as the accurate figure.
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““However, the incident involves road safey, so MIROS will be involved…in that study, we will look further from the aspect of road engineering, weather as well as the materials,”
Unbelievable!
Let’s spend RM4 million on this……..then have a study to see if it will work.
Yeah, that’s a plan !
Implemented then only study macam mana terbalik ooi…?
This is extremely outrageous! MIROS not consulted at all. When they started this Bicycle Plan with DBKL, Urbanice under the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government, Bicycle Map Project and oBike.
Agencies not talking to each other. and Malaysia soon to become a developed country…Sigh
I totally agree with u. In the first place, RM4mil for such thing is also inflated. What’s more to not have a proper study first before spending our tax money! This is outrageous! There’s no ending to misuse of our tax money, so many white elephant projects around and we, the tax payers, funded it and now top up 6%GST some more to purchase things we need!
Study for what? Why waste more money on this spoilt-brat cyclist project?
Do it only if the idiots who approved this project can be punished or lose their job. Citizens are suffering yet we are wasting money on fancy projects for fancy people in the city.
MIROS to conduct month-long study. But today is oredy 26 Jan and World Urban Forum to be held on Feb 7. In 2 weeks, hokayy..
Just stop listening to those complaints from lawbreakers. Just Install dividers instead and let them sort it out.
ah when ppl start complaining then the authorities will deny or pass the buck. why could you not do a proper study before wasting OUR money??????????????? FOOLS!!!
They did. FOOL!
When huge sum of money is involved its ‘hard’ for them to consult the right party. Some gomen official thinking is ‘Do it first,we’ll iron out the problem later’
Then comes the attitude of some agency/party which is reactive instead of proactive.
I bet 90% of gomen servant wont survive working in high performing private company.
I am both a driver and rider..no need to conduct extensive study to know the seperator the installed is pose a danger to road user.
It only poses a danger to those who misuses them. The bicycle lane is not for u!
Try swerving to avoid something when u cannot stop and u climb onto the divider…
Same logic applies to;
1) Curb
2) Lamppost
3) Tree
4) The lorry in the next lane
Remove them too?
All i want to say is bolehlanders are not into any activities that are beneficial like walking,cycling and sometimes even moving from their sofas.
Hence no need to create all these cycling lanes etc.
And thats the problem with MY pipu. They need to be prodded to move out of their comfort lazy zones. And then they complain about it.
Come on lah, study for a week pun boleh, make simulation. This is 2018, miros why u so slow?
Yep. 2018 tapi slow mcm 1958.
You can bring into Malaysia the best and safest infrastructure in the world, but when Malaysian tidak apa attitude is taken into the equation, everything is a high risk hazard. Motorcycles who want to ride on bicycle lanes say the lane separators are endangering them when they want to zoom in and out from main road to bicycle lanes so they can reach their destination faster, cars undercarriage damaged because they want to stop/park illegally on bicycle lane but the separators are present and preventing them from parking/waiting on the bicycle lanes Lane separators is a hazard to the motorcycles and cars but their actions are not hazard to cyclists. Tidak apa attitude = I don’t ride bicycle means no one is riding bicycle in Malaysia, no one using bicycle lane, so I can stop my car/ride my motorcycle on it, just for a while only, tidak apa punya.
Stop wasting money, time and effort on this lar…just to please some dude on overpriced bikes. Please spend the effort on understanding the critical locations where people really want to go and come in KL. Create hubs, people hubs to make travelling easier and extremely convenient with a travelling conducive environment. Make people want to travel to KL!!Make them to feel and look forward to it as an adventure with all our landmarks to see and usable techs. Not just opening stalls and eating outlets to charge rent and see/smell them became dirty. The idea of giving a person a commutative opportunity cheaply(or perhaps even free) and within a short travelling time duration where he or she need not worry what time they start a journey and or if there is a huge crowd waiting at the train/bus/monorail and etc. There should be a seamless travelling capabilities for all Malaysians today with minute hurdles while connecting people and the transportation systems on real live updated statuses via smart phones and on other gadgets or channels. Make travelling easy and constructive. A child should be able to understand and travel safely to school and home with little ease of mind and the best part for free considering the amount of taxes we pay. It should be a legacy we should pass to our children. All this can be done intelligently and cheaply using big data tech, intelligent and reusable transportation infra structure , reusable and intelligent travelling schedules and people carrier replacement plans in the event of an emergency or all together public transportation failure.
Make public transportation the best basic necessity to offer to Malaysian people. Make it our right to travel freely and as an opportunity not to be missed instead. A rite of passage so to speak of. We have all the expertise in our country, tak payah lawatan sambil belajar, and then learn some 20-30 year old method to implement here. We are a nation with talent and skills. We can do better and pioneer it for other nations. With recent monorails and MRT completion and more future expansions , we need to make it seamless into our lives. I could check if a train is coming in 2 minutes on my phone, look where the train is at present, take a lift down, take a short walk and go through the station gates freely like a walk in a park. Make buying a car , a bike look like and expensive and difficult affair. Make car manufacturers work harder to fill up the streets with cars. Get leverage on them. Then my friend you have an entire road for bicycles to even do wheelies till their hearts contents.
Sepatutnya research keselamatan jalan ni kan bwh miros… Jd jika nak buat bijak tu biarlah bijak benr…. Jika x tau rujukla miros… Mohon supaya parlimen meletakkan segala aspek kajian keselamatan jalan raya letak bwh miros…