A great sales of cars
It is said that there are
600,000 / more cars sold out nationally yearly. It is no doubt a grand and great sales of
cars to boast about though it is at the expense of the public without
considering the real need of the people . Car loans definitely turn our male and female
drivers pale at times.
I wonder how long the road in KM is built nationally annually to cater
the ever increasing number of cars on the road.
I do not travel much and so I can only observe the conditions in Sibu
and the information I gather through mass media to understand the plights of
other places far and near. And I believe
the situation is more / less the same with the limited extension of the road in
length and width in KM.
Traffic jam has become a nightmare to beat daily
and it is indeed a big trial to road users’ patience. It is terrible and horrible to see more and
more cars on the road. It is terrifying
and horrifying to know about 16 fatal deaths daily in average, not to say how
many go paralysed in car accidents. Our crowned
political clowns are blaming reckless road users all the time for the high rate
of road accidents without thinking of the needs to improve the road conditions and
improve the public transport to counteract the menace.
The ambition to boost the ailing car industry has
been done at the expense of the public transport that I see it as one of the fatal spots that
can kill the BN government at one stroke if they still continue without
improving their skills. There is no valid reason for the allocations
to support a business to continue at a
loss all the time. Without setting a
guidelines and restrictions what a waste of resources to upkeep this White Elephant. I believe this is not a stale topic we harp
on so often that it is time to ditch out the wasteful industry though it is
face losing to many people in many ways.
No car drivers, male / female
are not upset about the sales of the car at about half the price more in the homeland than that about half the price less in the overseas
market. People are not fools to endure
this irrational practice not to revolt. It is not the tricks or lies that PR coalition
tries to coax and woo people to turn
their backs against the BN government.
It is the abusive, corrupt, foolish and irresponsible actions and
behaviours of the crowned BN political clowns that really detest and disgust people
to the extremes/ to the core. In a
nutshell, people hate the BN political thugs “ into the bone”. In Chinese, it is 恨之入骨(hen zhi ru gu)。 We really
do not need any PR leaders to pester / insinuate/ instigate/ incite /invoke to
get into this intense state of hate.
Yes, many people feel like being plundered/pillaged to let go of this
hatred, exasperation and frustration. 308
and 505/SOS are the symbolic rituals we perform collectively with our determination
to flush out the BN government for good. It is no
doubt people’s tsunami though the Chinese appeared being the greatest and most overwhelming
in the whole process of waves. It is
not a tell-tale or a whale tale to tell.
You will see the greater and greater surging of these waves in the
course of time until………………..
It is definitely not a good
sign to have as many as 2 or 3 / more cars in a house. Most city /suburban dwellers who have to
travel more than a mile to work are
forced to buy cars. There are no good pedestrian walks to encourage walking to the workplace / school. Many parents drive their
children to school which are situated a
distance away. Hence traffic jam has
become a frustrating norm in life.
About 20% of the adult
population are just too poor to learn and own a motorcycle. They just cannot afford to live too far from
the town centre. About 20% of the adult
population are only able to access motorcycles which still ranks No. 1 in fatal
road accidents. About 20% have to
portion at least 40% of their income for the car instalments. About 20% have to fork out at least 30% of
their income. The Chinese being the most
urbanised creatures on earth, without doubt, face the debt of car loans besides shouldering
the housing loans.
It is not surprising to me at
all that the household debts run up to 80+% in most Chinese families. Whom should we blame for this disaster? I think not many do not know and not
curse.
Imagine how angry a person
becomes being caught in the traffic jam. The public transport service is just terrible
in Sibu / everywhere in Sarawak. A week
or so ago, my friend who was quite seriously attacked in an incidence asked her son to take a bus home and he had to wait an
hour for the bus to come. Can you
imagine how frustrating he was? My
friend could only afford a motorcycle and she has involved in the car accidents
at least 3 times up to now. Each time
she had to be brought to the hospital for treatment. If we had a good transport system, she would
have avoided all these ordeals and would have saved a lot of time for other things.
The sales of 600,000 / more
cars are achieved at the expense of the mass.
If we had a good system of public transport, who would be so stupid to drive around to be
caught in traffic jams and fork out so much for car instalments and
maintenance? Ng…………….. poor public transport is definitely
one of the fatal spots that the BN government has to deal with in urgency or ………………………….
