The
Pan Borneo ‘Highway’
The
Pan Borneo Highway is a very long and very long trunk road that has the link to
Sabah, Brunei and Indonesia. It must
have a lot of feeder roads branching out all along the way. If we take a bird’s view of, it must look like a millipede. Though the Pan
Borneo Highway is crowned “Highway”, it does not have much quality of the “Highway”
that I know. To express it in %, how many % of it has reached the status
or not at all. I hope the ones who use
the road often can help to evaluate / assess the trunk road and feeder roads to
tell everybody the real conditions of the Pan Borneo trunk road in Sarawak,
especially. When corruption and
collusion is so rampant, what can we expect to have the quality?
To
me a qualified highway should have the width and the thickness of asphalt layer
specified properly. It has a proper
drainage system to prevent landslide. How
wide should it be? How wide is the Pan
Borneo trunk road from one end of Sarawak to another? Let’s focus on the Pan Borneo trunk road in
Sarawak.
According
to the reports in See Hua Daily News (on 22-23 Dec), the width of the road is
3.5 metres (Am I right? I don’t have the newspaper with me to refer to now.) Find out the width. But generally, the road look narrow and
winding. I travelled along it from Sibu
to Kuching and Kuching to Sibu in 2008. I
had some gleam of it. Hence I personally
experience travelling on this “Highway” to blare and for other sections of the
road, I got the ideas from the newspaper reports and by the words of mouth.
The
poor road conditions, poor road users, poor car conditions, careless, reckless………..all
contribute to fatal road accidents. It is
recorded to claim 3 lives daily and 365 days X 3 =???. I wish Michael Manyin and Yong Khoon Seng
ministers of the Public Works Department will do the calculation together. I hope he will learn not to blame the road
users responsible for 60% of the fatal road accidents when the BN government has never tried
hard to improve and upgrade the road properly.
Just recall, how
many times he told us through the newspapers that it is hard and hard to
upgrade the road thoroughly and speed up the work. He told us at RM 16 billion are required to
upgrade the whole trunk road from one end of Sarawak to another end. And he
told the BN government does not have so much money to do so? Hei………………he plays blind and deaf to the
report of RM????????????????? in billion (RM2000亿) flowing out of the country illegally for laundering. What a bullshit to say that the BN government
does not have the money to upgrade our roads.
But he does not seem to be able
to get the allocation funds for upgrading at different sections of the
road. He always tells us to wait and
wait for the funds to come when he get his pay monthly without any delay. Is he doing your work?
The road system is
one of important items that we people will evaluate and assess to decide whom
to vote BN or PR. Now we have the choice
and we have the confidence to say that PR can perform well and even better if
they are given the trust. It is based on
our personal observations of the states led by PR pact. Well…… this is the age of awareness what people
rights are. Many plights we see, hear or
experience are because of the poor policies and governance of the BN
government. It is the practice of
autocracy as against democracy. In the
past, we people just trusted our leaders so much so that the practice of
democracy has gone haywire and made a turn to autocracy.
Nobody will
disagree with me that Malaysia led by the BN government by law is democratic
but autocratic in practice. We have
enough evidences to say that/ so. No matter how they blast and
slogan “People first” and “Meritocracy based on performance”, it is really not
much when we express the practices:
Democracy : Autocracy in % or ratio.
In Sarawak, we people generally agree that Taib Mahmud and his cronies
have controlled almost all the resources
here. They are bottomlessly greedy （贪得无厌）. Have we not suffered
enough?
Someone from Kapit
complained about not having regular supply of water from the tape almost daily for so long and they
were not attended to (23rd Dec 2012). Who is the elected and highly paid minister responsible
for the area? Where is he? What a shame and curse. Count the number of houses which still do not
have water and electricity supply in Sarawak.
Assess the penetration rate of telecommunication to different rural
areas. Check the access roads that our
poor and helpless people travel. Look at
the medical services they can access. For
emergency cases, how many lives have been wasted due to irresponsible and poor
helicopter services. Which ministers
care to stand up and speak out to rectify the situations? Why did so many pupils, male and female cram
in the same dormitory room for almost a year in Punan Ba? Do Taib Mahmud and his cronies feel ashamed over
all these plights that have plagued the poor and helpless people? Have they ever felt any pang of remorse to
lead such luxurious life at the expense of the mass, poor and helpless.
Taib Mahmud and
his cronies will one day face the shame and humiliation like Hosni Mubarak,
ex-president of Egypt and his cronies.
Just wait and see.
