Authorities Told To Be Proactive When Dealing With Potholes

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The Alliance for Safe Community has called on agencies responsible to maintain good road conditions and be proactive in tackling pothole issues. - NSTP/AIZUDDIN SAADKUALA LUMPUR: The Alliance for Safe Community has called on agencies responsible to maintain good road conditions and be proactive in tackling pothole issues.
Its chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said he has highlighted the need for mobile teams to identify the potholes, rather than wait for the public complaints.
The group had called for foresight, funds and foreknowledge but he said all that have only fallen on deaf ears.
"In the recent cases, are we to assume that repairs were not made because no complaints were received?
"How many more lives must it take for remedial action to be taken?" he said in a statement today.
On Sunday, 75-year-old Ho Yan Fee was riding his motorcycle to Mid Valley from Taman Connaught about 7.30am when his motorcycle went over a waterlogged cavity and he was thrown off his bike for some 30 metres. He died from his injuries at the scene.
The next day, a 31-year-old food delivery rider died after losing control of his motorcycle when it hit a pothole near a road shoulder at Jalan PJU 7/2 here.
The Public Works Department (JKR) came under fire when it said the pothole which claimed the life of the elderly man on Sunday was under the jurisdiction of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).
Lee said the authorities should stop passing the buck.
"When the 'rakyat' pay taxes, they are not interested in whose specific responsibility it is to repair the roads.
"They simply want the roads to be made safe by the authorities," he said. - NST

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