We don’t know if you’ve noticed, but traffic in the Klang Valley seems to have gotten much worse in the past few weeks, notably after the Hari Raya period. More jams seem to be occurring across the city, and not just during peak hours. Former transport minister Anthony Loke has noticed that too, and says the government needs to tackle the issue immediately, the Malay Mail reports.
Speaking to reporters at a press conference, he said that traffic has seen a two-fold increase compared to pre-pandemic times in 2019 as more people return to work. “From news reports, according to the TomTom Traffic Index, congestion at peak hours in the morning and evenings in the capital has become worse in the past seven days, compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said.
The TomTom Traffic Index records urban congestion in more than 400 cities worldwide, using data recorded by TomTom navigation devices, vehicle in-dash systems, and the company’s mobile application. The anonymised data is shared publicly, and allows hourly data to be viewed in real-time. Available data for the past 48 hours or seven days can be compared with 2019 and 2021 levels.
Loke added that the jams weren’t just confined to particular time periods, as would be expected. “Before, we only experienced traffic congestion during peak hours, but now even off-peak hours, at 3pm for example, there is traffic congestion,” he said.
This, he explained, was having an impact on motorists’ behaviour. “More accidents occur each day now, although I don’t have the exact figures, but if you drive, you will understand the road condition and how people behave on the road,” he said.
Loke added that this wasn’t only happening in the Klang Valley, but elsewhere as well. Using Seremban as an example, he said he experienced similar traffic congestion during a recent trip to Seremban, taking two hours to make the journey despite the distance only being 60 km.
“What is happening? The government needs to get to the bottom of this. Malaysians cannot wait anymore. Don’t wait for studies to be done, just get down to the ground and try to solve the problems from there,” he said.
Loke said that the matter of tackling the issue shouldn’t just be left to the transport ministry, stating that other ministries should also look into how they can work together to solve the growing problem. “The transport ministry could work with the federal territories ministry, for a start, to address traffic congestion in the Kuala Lumpur city centre. That’s just an example, but it has to be done immediately,” he explained.
Earlier this week, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) said it will conduct a detailed study on how to reduce traffic congestion in the city, which is becoming increasingly critical. The council said that attention will be paid to certain aspects including traffic light coordination and parking management systems, which have disrupted traffic flow.
Loke said that public transport also had its share of issues. Having decided to give it a go earlier today, he said that the service was not as smooth as he thought it would be. “This is when I realise that Malaysians are facing stress even when they opt to take public transport,” he said.
In posts on social media last week, motorists lamented about the worsening traffic conditions they are facing during their commute to and from work. They said that the situation was forcing many to leave home for work earlier and getting home later, as congestion on the road in the evening now lasted up to 8pm and beyond, something that would ultimately affect one’s mental well-being.
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Ministers lalu smuanya pakai escort. That’s why “can wait until study… can wait until discuss…etc2”. Mana ada dia rasa jalan jem ni.
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wat talk u? PH was alright. ekceli PH was trying thier best, but racist BN UMNO geng buat hal lo…
Copy paste: “Apa yang kau merepek ini?”
UMNO 60 yrs no problem buy PH 22 months said doing nothing. Definitrly stupid BN supporters!
Gudjob PH minister Anthony Lok. Everyone knows the current local bunch of Umno Pas gahmen are useless freeloading lazy nuts.
PH macai detected! Everyone knows this blowhard useless crap mentri had the job and he did absolutely nothing to alleviate the traffic situation instead he went on a frenzy selling special number plates. What he did with that money nobody knows.
Gudjob?! Yeah IF he had all those he said when he wuz Transport Minister. Talk so easy when comes to do he failed so bad he should be removed from the history in the Ministry of Transportation. He is utter pits the worst TM we ever had! Makan gaji buta for 22 months.
He would do better stopping his DAP fellows from misusing their MP allotted police outriders to give their sons VIP escort treatment.
Tanya bossmu siapa sibodoh mentri finance yg delay projek MRT2 & LRT3 lepas tu cancel MRT3? Klau kito maseh bersama PM Najib skarang dah pasti jem kat jalan raya dah banyak berkurangan.
Dulu jadik mentri tak tau nak solve the problem. Dah kluar Gomen 2 taun jadik senyap pulak entah buatpe tido kot enjoy life. Skarang dah hampir nak PRU15 tau pulak bangun lepas tu buat bising sana sini. Inilah style pimpin kjaan PH. Tido bangun buat bising masa PRU lepas tu tido semula.
The point being why he did not do as then transport minister those things he now demanding from the current transport minister. His suggestion reeks of hypocrisy and incompetence on his part.
Sejak merdeka menteri ramai BN, so BN punca semua
Hello Mr Ex-Minister, last time pn you did nothing to address this issue…this is what we said talk is cheap, supposedly your previous action talk louder than word…Bossku sudah lama planning on MRT & other public transport transformation you shj yg lalai..hahahaha
Spot on! We are so used to the mickey mouse game these PH jokers are playing. When in charge did not do anything now kutuk here & there, we already know what they trying to do… Cheers!
How quickly we forget the all the years before that. It is like Malaysian history and all that went wrong started in 2018.
We did not forget, which was why we dared to UBAH back in 2018. We thought we did what was right and that BN was so bad that anything would have been better.
Boy were we wrong, so so badly wrong. Corruption, cronyism, nepotism, favouritism, political patronages went up the roof. Never in the 60 years had the entire legal & judicial top post given to political appointees who proceed to sprung all their members & affiliated bad characters free, including an ex-CM. Our Competitive Index plummeted, cost went up with backtracking from GST. We’re just lucky they self-imploded right as Covid hits us or else our situation would have been far worse with how they bungled everything and eventually self destruct later.
We had been in the absolute pits and our PH ministers were talking nonsense about shifting from palm oil plantation to bamboo forestry, look at palm oil prices today and imagine if we made that switch OMG!
Geng of inept incompetent clueless Umno BN Pas clowns. Cant even setel Chicken supply inda country. OMG! Say NO to Umno BN
So the solution is to go back to pre-2018? Maybe we need to rename Stockholm syndrome to Putrajaya syndrome.
We had better economic stability, political stability, sure governance backed by 60 years of rule, FDI coming berlimpah… erm if compared with the last 4 years of chaotic inept, incompetent and clueless ruling, pre2018 was heaven vs this hell.
Well if you’re take on economic stability is an ever widening income gap, exploitative work conditions for the lowest income earners, debt traps everywhere for them, worsening brain drain then yeah bring them back. And lets face it…PH had 22 months, after that 26 months and counting of a non-PH divine government. And 732 months before 2018. So spread the blame fairly ya
Solution 1: Remove RON95 subsidy
Solution 2: WFH
Solution 2: End of SST tax exemption
Traffic jams was due to:
– Keep selling more cars and fill up more population on the road or highway that leads to
Solution:
– Someone agree from the man of experience, that urging that sst tax exemption as tax holiday must not continue forever
– Impose new cars that is didn’t follow lemon law
– Somebody here also agree here from Ah Pek, that is needed to improve road condition
– Expand more lanes for every highways to lessen traffic jams
Continuation from above (while encouraging public transport to reduce traffic jams on the road):
– Refurbish Kelana Jaya Line and expand from 2 cars to 4 cars for 1998 Innovia ART 200 Trains including refurbishing 28 sets of 818 Train (2009 Innovia ART 200) to smoothen traffic.
– Build more trains for every train lines i.e. KTM lines and KL Monorail train to reduce waiting departure train time.
– Build more public transport like MRT3, LRT3 including trams
talk only ..traffic jammed is money…money wasted on the side , money collected by the other side.. so…balance .. no jammmed , economy slow moving…ekekekekekek
Yesss talk only. This ex minister is equally as useless as Ong Kian Ming another good for nothing talk only ex minister.
The most obvious reason is covid rules. As long as you force or encourage mask wearing in public transport, people will switch to cars.
Look at intra city buses, they are almost empty all the time. Because people don’t come out? But there are tons of cars on the road.
Because people are scared of covid? But there are many people in coffee shops and restaurants, obviously with no mask.
This was already apparent during lunar new year this year. Loads of cars on highways, but an intercity bus that was expected to be full had only 1 passenger. At the same time, eating places with no mask rule were full.
-incomplete mrt works is a nuisance
-flexible working hours causing round the clock congestion
-too many traffic lights and ingress / egress, perhaps due to poor judgement of road auditors
-poor road conditions
-increase in delivery services due to the pandemic
-overladen old lorries slowing down traffic at climbing sections
recommendations:-
– car pooling. single occupancy vehicle to be charged higher toll rate.
– to limit truck operating hours after peak hours
-to dismantle and close down some ingress/egress. motorists to go for a longer round route.
-to improve road conditions
Another recommendation:
– End of SST tax exemption
Ah Pek
I totally agree.
One more thing..all the menteris dont understand the working population expands..they should look at how many thousands of graduates degree/diploma holders are flooding the market the last 2 years.
Due to the virus,many just buy a used Kancil or Viva to drive to office.If 300,000 join the workforce,imagine half buy a small car to escape covidic fears in crammed LRTs.
Ahsiongkor’s kementerian as usual lah..”Kami akan memantau”..Memantau hingga semua jalan raya jadi carparks.
This Loke kosong of PH gomen era is the worst transport minister ever. Certainly low stended menteri PH & fared more worst then BN Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong…
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Why you butt hurt leh? Work for Loke/PH kah? Oopss.
Copy paste: “Uncle Bodo albert.Apa yang kau ini merepek?”
1. Create city zones where no cars can enter during working hours on working days. Example federal.highway after mid valley. And after bulatan pandan at TRX.
2. Create gantry to detect vehicle.numbers and charge rm20 per entry as like congestion fee. Exempt EVs.
For cars more than 20 years old, charge rm100 per entry as they are slower, they pollute more and ten to breakdown easily.
Exempt public transports and ehailings with proper signage on bodywork.
3. Next. Remove all cars older than 30 years old outside city. send to smaller towns like temerloh or tampin. Or sarikei.
4. By 2025 only allow cars with special plates (maybe green colour) to enter the city.
5. Starting 2023 remove 15% of excise duty on all new cars. 2024 abother 5%. 2025 anothrr 5%. Total 40%.
6. Starting 2025 ppl.wanting to buy green plate cars must pay a new tax for them to enjoy the priority omto be on the road. Charge 20k, cannot include in car price. Cannot include in car loan. Dont want, take ehailing or taxis or other means of public transport .
This is my idea.
Any other ideas?
I have similar thoughts, but simpler: remove Ron 95 subsidy, tax premeum fuel. Its to discourage people from driving and try to save money (like car pool, or motorcycle).
Next, tax all vehicle based on size, weight, and emission. This is to discourage big polluting cars and people move to greener vehicles. If we have cleaner air, everyone wins. Also remove excise duty like you said, so people would at least able to afford new clean cars.
Add on: End of SST tax exemption immediately, this will help to reduce traffic jams
Power bro, run for MP confirm pass! Hahaha
Yeah, he should compete for MP post in Seremban. Will vote for him over this useless hot air tokok Loke.
works only if we have excellent connecting public transport from all suburbs to city center. you know how many actually living in the outskirts? even there is MRT, only one station to cover a vast area but no connecting transport. It beats the purpose if one still needs to drive to the nearest MRT station which is many kms away.
All the wholes there is no studied and traffic engineering?
PH stopped believing in study & traffic engineering after their undersea tunnel is still stuck in studying phase since forever and ever and ever after.
Apa yang kau merepek ini?
That’s why no need to extend for SST tax exemption. This will help to reduce jams
Talk so easy this ex Mentri Loklok. Dulu ada kuasa ko buat apa ye? Useless dude only contribution is to sell endless fancy plates. This reflects the endemic issue from PH during their 22mths rule, we can see how inept and clueless these jokers were when given the right to rule but their abject failure and broken promises laid bare for the world to see and laugh at Malaysia’s expense.
Total 64 years of utter failure under BN govt. Clearly mirrored by abject stupidity and downright inept troop of BN UMNO buttlickers. Fancy plates were BN UMNO most laughable dumbno ideas, sold off national assets and huge 1Mdb debts. Say NO to BN Umno.
https://paultan.org/2018/05/24/govt-to-halt-sale-of-special-series-vehicle-number-plates-new-e-bidding-system-begins-january-2019/
Thanks for bringing this up. Am excellent example of PH braindead trooper shooting themselves on the foot again. Once more they are highlighting the utter failure of PH Govt in carrying out one of their promises which is to scrap selling special plates, instead they went on a selling spree. Guess who was Transport Minister during these sale.
https://paultan.org/2018/10/30/e-number-plate-series-open-for-bidding-on-november-1/
https://paultan.org/2019/02/27/iq-number-plate-series-still-available-iq-1-to-iq-999/
https://paultan.org/2018/09/24/ua-number-plate-series-now-available-open-till-oct-1/
https://paultan.org/2018/07/03/ya-number-plate-series-bidding-opens-for-the-run-out/
https://paultan.org/2018/08/09/ad-uuu-number-plate-series-tender-opens-august-8/
https://paultan.org/2020/12/09/utem-special-series-plates-first-phase-bids-til-dec-14/
And this untrustful miscreant called minister was selling special plates all the way right until he was kicked out
https://paultan.org/2020/02/17/uum-number-plate-series-bids-open-ends-march-1/
Filipinos have Never Again for Marcos rule, we too should have #NeverAgain for PH rule.
I’m the King of Special plates. Cash is King , Selling off Msia national assets is my forte. LOL , Long list of special plates gone into BN UMNO pokets…
https://paultan.org/2013/03/04/im4u-registration-plate-launched-on-sale-march-10/
https://paultan.org/2016/10/01/new-gt-number-plates-now-available-from-ke7b/
https://paultan.org/2016/07/27/perfect-number-plate-in-malaysia/
https://paultan.org/2015/06/24/patriot-1-number-plate-set-to-malaysias-most-expensive-bidding-starts-from-rm1-million/
https://paultan.org/2018/01/29/gg-number-plates-now-available-great-generation/
https://paultan.org/2018/04/06/another-new-number-plate-series-x-marks-the-spot/
https://paultan.org/2015/04/06/rm-number-plate-total-tenders-surpass-rm7-million/
https://paultan.org/2017/06/29/sms-joins-the-list-of-special-series-number-plates/
https://paultan.org/2015/07/24/patriot-1-number-plate-sold-for-record-rm1-3mil/
https://paultan.org/2016/06/21/vip-number-plate-series-approved-on-sale-in-2017/
https://paultan.org/2016/08/25/naam-number-plates-up-for-bidding/
https://paultan.org/2016/09/05/jpj-collects-record-rm22-million-from-v-plate-auction/
https://paultan.org/2018/01/02/sam-and-k1m-join-the-special-number-plate-series/
Stupids trying to deflect. There is no issue selling special number plates but PH told everyone they will stop selling such but after that they broke their promises and continue to push out even more every month. BN UMNO was not so terrible as they did not promise to stop selling but PH did that makes PH worse and corrupted than BN ever was.
I’d reckon PH got this one right. PH had managed Malaysia way better than BN Umno unfortunately… Not when Najip & UMNO co. had also sold off so many national assets. Bandar Malaysia, KTM rail lands in Spore, Marina One & Duo Residences properties in Sg and also 1MDB ..Bear in mind , this is just to name a few.
Copy paste: “And you want to give those involve in the penang tunnel opportunity to lead the govt again? Hell no. They are even worst. Look at the flooded bukit kukus elevated highway and the recently flooded with seawater esplanade. Both in penang. We are not blind.”
[CP: Bear in mind those were just 22 months in power, given 5 years… hmm]
Oh ye ke? Ini salah siapa bossku? Cash is King so no wonder PH continued this practice to sell plates and all gone into PH MP pockets…
https://paultan.org/2020/01/07/utm-and-ukm-special-number-plate-series-announced/
https://paultan.org/2019/07/29/private-companies-public-universities-jpj-special-vehicle-registration-plates/
https://paultan.org/2019/04/17/fc-number-plate-open-for-tender-via-e-bidding-process/
https://paultan.org/2021/03/08/universiti-malaya-launches-special-um-number-plates/
https://paultan.org/2021/03/08/universiti-malaya-launches-special-um-number-plates/
https://paultan.org/2018/07/04/jpj-releases-results-of-rx-number-plate-series-tender/
https://paultan.org/2017/08/15/rr-plate-series-rakes-in-rm12-2-million-for-jpj-perlis/
https://paultan.org/2018/05/24/up-number-plate-series-now-available-supports-maba/
https://paultan.org/2018/06/04/malaysia-1-9999-number-plate-series-launched-by-mot/
Loke better stop talking nonsense. He failed as a Transport Minister and his political career is finished when he is proven untrustable.
Well done DBKL 2022! Dulu DBKL of 2019 tau saman orang je, bila flood datang, all including the useless WP MP then become headless chickens.
I said many times already. Malaysian car prices are too cheap to own. Each year 600,000 vehicles are added to KL city. How can not jam? Best to raise car prices and be like Singapore. Control the amount of vehicles on the road.
Not cheap to own, is just too easy to own by taking 9 yrs loan, min dpayment. Gment shld control max loan 7yrs and 20% dpayment. Scrap those old cars above 15 yrs. Every year sold so many cars but didnt scrap any old cars how to reduce the jam? Even built 10 lanes highway also jam later.
Just impose old car policy and ensure heavy vehicle prohibites to enter city on peak hours, moreover please give fine kaw kaw if found uninspect vehicle esp big trailer stuck anywhere in the city centre.
Alternatively make them more costly to run. Raise road tax and move the bar where it starts to exponentially increase down from 2500cc to 1600cc. After all lots of new continental cars have this cc as a base model. Targeted fuel subsidy for B40 and enforce it – not hard, use LHDN data. Even better – want the subsidy, register and get a tax file number from LHDN. Country also benefits by being able to track revenue. Stop this 9 year loan nonsense, encourage a culture of vehicle maintenance and emissions testing like MOT/TUF. Then maybe majority can learn what it is to live within your means.
when become opposition, pandai kutuk orang. last time also didn’t contribute much to the society.
Mayb last time bz counting money. Hehehe…
AG must do an audit how much did Loke skimmed from those fancy plates they sold during his tenure. I bet it must have made him an automatic T5.
It’s my useless idea LOL. Take my 1M4U plate …and many more fancy plates. Malu apa Geng UMNO ku.
https://paultan.org/2013/03/04/im4u-registration-plate-launched-on-sale-march-10/
PH promised to stop sale of special plates but they doubled down and sold even more. Malu apa broken promises geng PH mu.
https://paultan.org/2018/05/24/govt-to-halt-sale-of-special-series-vehicle-number-plates-new-e-bidding-system-begins-january-2019/
Raise toll rate and fuel prices so that less congestion
I cannot agree with raise toll rates but I agree with fuel prices to less congestion. But it is tax holiday i.e. sst tax exemption should not continue again and also impose new cars that doesn’t follow lemon law to lessen congestion
No need to study? That is a great idea! And we complain about present government and ministers.
Dont forsee any change happening.
Hapuskan subsidi ron95. Automatik ramai naik motor
Too many cars on the road. Need to enforce scrapping policy. Cars above 15 yrs old need to be scrap as their safety tech is in doubt. Reduce loan tenure to 7yrs and min 20% downpayment to discourage ppl to buy cars. Increase enforcement so that those without license/roadtax/ or anything illegal shld be off the road. So then we will see a smoother roads. tq
Damm right. The fuel price subsidy must be removed and use the money to build tokyo JR class subway.
Even the fuel subsidy removed, it will be short term measure as now got hybrid and ev cars. So later on, many chg to those, same jam problem. When there is increase sales of cars every year, they must think a way to decrease it, either by scrapping those old ones, or making it hard to own.. anyway just my honest opinion.
Easy. Enforce 50% WFH by the government to private and public employees. No other solution if WFO is becoming norm.
BAN private vehicle entering KL city area
Only use public transport like bus and taxi or commercial vehicle
Give tax relief for bicycle user in city area
All those said if MRT line is not cancel delay will solve the problems, come on, how many of u going to take train ????? Problem is too many cars even there is alternative
How many eh? Back during train breakdowns tens of thousands were affected, u say leh?
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Stupid PH troopers, when you play with fire you get burned now you go back crying for mama & papa because you lost? What a loser no wonder PH is losing their grip nowadays. Serves them right for ultimately cheating the rakyat.
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