Each time, traffic slows down on the North-South Expressway (NSE) as well as other expressways, either due to lane closure, vehicles changing lanes due to heavy vehicles crawling up a slope, many irresponsible drivers use the emergency lane only to cut into the main traffic lanes later, causing traffic to be severely congested.
Just last Sunday evening, while traveling back from Melaka to Petaling Jaya for a weekend trip, I spotted many vehicles, heavy ones included using the emergency lane along the stretch between Pedas-Linggi and Senawang on the NSE. It is due to the closure of one of the two lanes at one point, and impatient drivers started to use the emergency lane and the yet-to-be-opened third lane, resulting in vehicles from 4 lanes squeezing into one lane which caused a traffic congestion of several kilometres.
Here are some photographs of the culprits.
Sun 24 Jun 2007 09:04
It’s really disgusting. Doesn’t anyone ever follow the traffic rules anymore?
Has anyone ever wondered why these lanes are called EMERGENCY lanes?
I remember once seeing a sign board which says “Malaysians are courteous but not when they are on the roads!” How true. How sad tooo…
It’s not this that drives me crazy.. as much as the fact that their total selfishness puts us all at risks. Hello! Which part of the word EMERGENCY don’t you understand?????