Is the Minister a mass murderer
JK? Digest no 26 of September, 06 <240 of 2006> Is the Minister a mass murderer?Lets put up the billboard sign : Driving on Samy roads are dangerous and hazardous.
How many had died on the roads in Malaysia for the last few decades?
Now by the Minister Samy's own admissions that there are 300 'black spots' (131+169) in two new major highways in Malaysia. (see the story below).300 is symbolic of gravity of what - negligence, deliberate???
He also told us that the highways were built according to European standards, and so what went wrong when 60,000 and more had died on the 'killer roads' for the last decade. Is he guilty of mass murders?
Is Samy prepared to listen to me?
Also the taxpayers had paid the highway concessionaires compensation of nearly RM40 billions for shortfalls of tolls charges last year.
Now 300 'black spots' need about RM400 millions when the Concessionaires are responsible for the well being of the roads and road users. So why should the Government fund be used to rectify the black spots?
Can Samy guarantee that nobody would die again after the 300 'black spots' are improved costing RM400m?
The other stories are RM490m sports project in London shelved, and 700 Cameras on the roads costing billions of Ringit are futile effort to stop the mass murder.
SAD - I tell you it is the rotten system that is the root cause of the sick people in the millions on the roads and elsewhere.I believe there is also a backlash.
Joshua Kong
Author of New Wealth Order, EPIC of Sabah, FIRE, Sabah Wealth - image of woods power,
EPIC of Sabah - 2nd Edition, Paper to Parliament Select Committee on Unity and National Service.
EPIC of Sabah - 3rd Ed., WATER, A tussle in biodiversity of two liquids - palm oil and water,
Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia in 1963, Paper
http://www.e-borneo.com/col/jkong/
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/29/nation/15579697&sec=nation
Samy seeks RM300mil to fix 131 ?lack spots?
KUALA LUMPUR: The Works Ministry has spent RM100mil to repair 169 accident-prone areas along the North-South Expressway (NSE) and the Port Klang-Kota Baru highway, said minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.
He said that a further RM300mil allocation was being sought to repair 131 areas which had been identified as "black spots" two years ago.
Samy Vellu was speaking to reporters after launching a Self Skills 2006 campaign organised by the Yayasan Sosial Strategik at Nethaji Hall here yesterday.
He said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had expressed concern during the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday over the death of a pregnant woman and three others in an accident along the Johor Baru-Batu Pahat road.
"I took the opportunity to ask the prime minister for the additional allocation to repair the other accident-prone areas," he said.
On a newspaper report that guardrails would have saved the lives of 11 pilgrims when their bus landed in a ditch at the 160.8km of the NSE on July 30, Samy Vellu said this was not true.
"The ditch is not too deep. It is a low embankment and there is no necessity for guardrails. The construction of the NSE is in accordance with standard requirements for highways in European countries," he said.
Samy Vellu said accidents could not be prevented if drivers were sleepy, failed to adhere to safety rules or were speeding.
He said the Malaysian Highway Authority and PLUS were considering constructing the guardrails on humanitarian grounds. Drivers' attitude have more to do with road accidents rather than the roads themselves!
still a mass murderer like cigs smoking
bad roads are one of the factor after billions of Ringgit incurred.roads is the reason of those dying prematurely.
they should have more railways and public transports in place.
so get a case going against the whole Cabinet.
[ Last edited by13Friday at 2-10-2006 12:36 PM ]
repeated for RM1 billion
October 21, 2006 22:08 PMRM1 Bln Needed To Remedy 230 Killer Spots, Says Samy Vellu
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- A whopping RM1 billion is needed if all the 230 dangerous stretches and accident-prone spots on federal and state roads are to be improved, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Saturday night.
He said his ministry had identified the killer spots and accident-prone stretches in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.
"Of the total, we have improved part of the killer stretches," he told reporters when met at his Deepavali open house at the Putra World Trade Centre.
Samy Vellu said the government had spent RM130 million to rectify dangerous stretches and accident-prone spots on federal and state roads.
"Many of the 230 killer spots have been remedied. For instance, the government spent RM43 million to build the road divider along the Kluang-Batu Pahat accident-prone stretch," added Samy Vellu, who is also MIC president.
Ministers, corporate figures and community leaders are among the 10,000-odd guests at the open house.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak are expected to attend the open house after tarawih prayers.
-- BERNAMA
last time was RM300m
A whopping RM1 billion is needed if all the 230 dangerous stretches and accident-prone spots on federal and state roads are to be improved, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Saturday night.fund for election campaign bah
obvious
Please read the following two press statements from the same person Samy Vellu 23 days apart, then tell yourself how can the cost go up from something like RM400m to RM1 billion.Is this the ugly manifestations of a likely 'mass murderer'?
13Fri
Works Ministry Seeks RM300 Mln To Rectify Accident-prone Road Stretches
28 September 2006, By BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR -- The Works Ministry has asked the government for RM300 million to rectify dangerous and accident-prone spots along the North-South Highway linking Johor Baharu and Bukit Kayu Hitam and the East-West Highway from Port Klang to Kota Baharu. Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said there were 300 dangerous or black spots along these two federal roads and that so far the ministry has spent about RM169 million on repair work. "To complete the remedial work at all black spots, we need about RM300 million, and this is what we have asked the government for," he told reporters after launching a skills training campaign organised by the MIC, here. Samy Vellu, who is also MIC president, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was also concerned about the road accidents, especially fatal road mishaps, and had instructed the ministry to ensure that all roads were safe for users. He also said that fixing guardrails along a highway would not necessarily ensure an accident-free stretch. "You can't just prevent an accident by putting up guardrails along the highways. Things like reckless driving, exceeding the speed limit and various other factors too play a major role in accidents," he said. Samy Vellu was asked to comment on a newspaper report quoting an unnamed source as saying that the accident involving a tourist bus, which killed 11 people, at Km160.8 of the North-South Highway on July 30 was due to the absence of guardrails along the stretch where the mishap occurred. On that fateful day, the tourist bus was travelling from Ipoh, Perak, to the St Anne's Church in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, at about 6.45 am. Besides the 11 killed, 34 other passengers were injured, nine of them seriously. Samy Vellu said the failure to erect guardrails at that spot was not the reason for the deaths, and "the passengers were not killed because of the drain". "The drain by the side of the road was about seven to eight feet (2.5 to three metres) away from the road and the drain (beside the road) was only four feet (1.3 metres) deep. The driver could not negotiate the bend, hence the accident," he said. Samy Vellu said the North-South Highway was designed according to the Tolled Inter-Urban Highway System, which had all the standard safety measures to counter accidents. "The criteria for installation of guardrails is based on a combination of the height of the embankment and the slope. Therefore, the slope and embankment at the location of the accident did not require the installation of guardrails because it fulfilled the standard design and rules for the installation of guardrails. "Nevertheless, the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) and PLUS (which manages the North-South Highway) monitor the accident-prone stretches from time to time to determine the need to install guardrails and other security features as a preventive measure. "LLM and PLUS also carry out a road safety audit to identify additional safety measures that have to be adopted," he said.
October 21, 2006 22:08 PM
RM1 Bln Needed To Remedy 230 Killer Spots, Says Samy Vellu
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=226006
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- A whopping RM1 billion is needed if all the 230 dangerous stretches and accident-prone spots on federal and state roads are to be improved, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Saturday night.
He said his ministry had identified the killer spots and accident-prone stretches in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.
"Of the total, we have improved part of the killer stretches," he told reporters when met at his Deepavali open house at the Putra World Trade Centre.
Samy Vellu said the government had spent RM130 million to rectify dangerous stretches and accident-prone spots on federal and state roads.
"Many of the 230 killer spots have been remedied. For instance, the government spent RM43 million to build the road divider along the Kluang-Batu Pahat accident-prone stretch," added Samy Vellu, who is also MIC president.
Ministers, corporate figures and community leaders are among the 10,000-odd guests at the open house.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak are expected to attend the open house after tarawih prayers.
-- BERNAMA
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