Jam or Jammed

Ramadhan in KL means another series of traffic jams in the evening rush hour home. Both of us had to drive our own cars instead of the usual car pooling. Why? If we were to use one car means we are going to arrive home at 7.15 pm every day, if there is no irregular jams. I guess the Klang Valley Traffic jams would not have happened if there are no kiasu drivers who loves to potong q or those sleuth drivers and also apologetic gedik drivers who just love to take their own sweet time negotiating corners or hogging every single lane of the expressways. I hope the authorities would find some genius solutions to overcome this teething problem.

I sometimes wonder why people in the Klang Valley still chose to live in areas like Cheras, Ampang and Selayang and complain about traffic jams. As far as I knew Cheras has been a regular area for traffic jams since the early 70's, but I still can't understand why the housing developers still lured their potential buyers into believing that their new homes would be within 10 minutes drive to KL. It is a total bluff and these people really believed it. Well, it's a free country anyway?

A colleauge of mine lives in the Cheras area. He starts his journey to the office by 6.30am and would normally arrive at the office by 7.45am. I myself start my drive at 7.00am, send my daughter to school 15 kilometres away and would normally reach the office after continuing another 25 kilometres at 8.00am. I live in Seri Kembangan in between the borders of Cyberjaya, Puchong and Seri Kembangan. Cheras is only a few kilometres away from the city centre but the journey to work is like travelling from Seremban. Logically the consumption of petrol is actually higher for stop n' go driving compared to consistent driving. We are actually wasting a lot of our precious time and money on the road. I don't suggest people to commute from Bukit Beruntung nor Lembah Beringin neither.

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