Ara Damansara

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Three accidents in one week at the same junction! Isn’t this one too many?

Last Tuesday evening, a car collided with a motorcyclist. The car was badly damaged with a big depression on the windscreen. The motorcyclist was lucky to be alive as no helmet was seen. He had a large wound at the back of his head but was conscious. The traffic lights was working so it had to be the driver or the cyclist.

Monday morning, an MPV rammed into a sedan. The driver’s door was badly damaged. The traffic lights was out. So it had to be the carelessness of the drivers.

Yesterday afternoon, a taxi knocked down the traffic pole and landed on the divider. Next to it was a sedan. The traffic lights was out. The road was wet and it was still drizzling. Blame the drivers?

Most of the time, the drivers are at fault. They should have known the lights are not working so it is common sense to be extra careful. It is better to be safe than sorry.

But putting the blame fully on the drivers is a little bit unfair. There are the other culprits too: the faulty lights, the slippery roads, the darkened streets, the apathy of the authorities and perhaps the devil too.

Many complaints were filed with MBPJ on the faulty traffic lights. We hardly see Mr Amber at work and worst Mr Red is often in a hurry showing up before the number is called. MBPJ, as the local authority is responsible but the residents complaints are like a pile of discarded papers stored in a junk yard. Our area councillor, Encik Khairul promised to look at our problems but days and weeks have come and gone. He probably was stationed in NATO before.

We complained on the street lamps many moons ago. We were given various excuses: it was an act of vandalism; we are not responsible for that street, MBPJ is. Despite the excuses, our developer, SDP assured us actions would be taken. They did but only after much delays and many trials and errors: the lights came on one night but disappeared the next or only alternate lamps were lighted up.

And now, the lights have gone away for Christmas holiday. The latest excuse: two bills amounting to more than RM150K have not been settled. So Mr Tenaga said: “Enough is enough!, Potong! Potong!”. The perplexing part is why only these two streets; why not the rest? Even for these two streets, why only half of them?

Seri Pilmoor is the premier G&G community in this neighbourhood. But the road next to it is a river of mud. This problem has been there for months and after every downpour, they send a team to clean up the mess. But why not fix the problem once and for all? Who is responsible for this mess?

Sewerage is pouring from a manhole along the main road and also from two manholes inside the Semi-D compound. The manhole cover is now dislocated and it’s a death trap. Who is responsible?

So who is at fault? our developer, Sime Darby Property? MBPJ? our councillor? Or the drivers?

You tell me.