Rant & Raves

Yes, I had issue with the road surface marking, again.

Look, I understand the good intention of these yellow paint strip road surface marking, like how it can alert the drivers on an impending turn, slowing down the traffic, and etc. But sometimes those markings are just too rude and the everyone’s car will jolt big time going through these markings. But there is more danger to it than not having these road surface markings…

Yesterday I almost got into an accident at Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP) on the way back to office, right in front of Kelana Jaya LRT station. I was going at the posted speed limit, and the traffic at the front just braked and came to a complete stop (why those fuckers stop completely on a highway is completely out of my comprehension). I stood on my brakes, but the car in front of me, being an E-series, has more stopping power than I do. My car skidded and from my 14 years of driving experience, I knew that I was less than 1 inch before kissing the E-series beautifully sculptured backside.

The problem is that these yellow paint strip road surface marking is basically a layer of paint on the road, and these paint has smoother surface than tarmac, hence providing less traction and friction to the tyres. When stopping hard on these yellow paint strip road surface marking, the dynamic of the car is disturbed when the tyres had more grip in between these strips (when they are in contact with tarmac) and then lost most of the traction and grip suddenly while on the yellow paint strips. So it takes a longer distance than normal to come to a complete stop, and for that, it is more dangerous and it will cause more traffic accidents.

When I came to a complete stop behind the E-series, I believe that I brushed his backend a bit, but luckily the driver started moving to the front a bit, just that few inch, and then being much heavier than my car, the E-series did not jolt due to the very light brush from my bumper.

Lucky me, or else paying for denting the bumper of the E-series could seriously bankrupt me.

Or better yet, we should really look into the safety of our road system. Please don’t blame us, the taxpaying citizen, as if everything is our fault. Look into the minute details and see how safe our road is (of course, I also understand that sometimes our roads are filled with imbecile as well) and make the necessary renovation to make our environment safer. We paid the tax, so we deserve a better and safer road.

Thank you.

Do you know what the fuck is Road Surface Marking? It’s the marking on the surface on the road. Easy to understand? Now, the road surface marking I am talking about now are those horizontal yellow strips of paint on the road. Normally they are used to inform the road users that there are “Stop” sign ahead, or “Speed Bump” ahead.

Everyday I will take the fastest and less traffic route to my office. Using this road, I am required to travel through a housing estate and there’s no speed bump or stop sign along that short stretch of road. Yet our local officials are smart enough to paint the road with those Yellow Fucking Strips.

The intention is good, I assume, to let the road users know that they should slow down, especially it is a housing estate and there might be a lot of kids or traffic coming in and out. Unfortunately, our fucking local officials painted a big ass Yellow Fucking Strips. Yes, whenever I go through the series of these yellow strips, I can feel that my car was falling apart because those were some serious yellow fucking strips! (Those strips were around 5mm raised above the road surface)

Now, common sense is that heavier car with longer wheel base will feel more comfortable going through these road surface marking. Unfortunately, the other day when I was in a Pajero and a BMW 525i, I could feel the suspension was working hard to keep up to those violent jolt and I could hear a loud thump coming out from everywhere. Mind you, my friends were driving at around 50km/hr (the posted speed limit).

Now can you imagine how it would feel like to drive through this stretch of road with all those Protons and Perodua? They are the national carmakers but I call them tin-can makers. Yes, their quality is really bad, except maybe Perodua. They have improved a lot after venturing with Daihatsu [info here].

I didn’t quite get the purpose of those road surface marking until today…

This, my friend, is actually a master plan from our government. You see, Proton is dying (in a sense, it is going to bankrupt soon if they can’t get a partner. But that’s another story for another day) so the government must do a lot of things to revive Proton, the brainchild and our “National Pride”. So they paint those road surface markings everywhere (If you want a more prominent Yellow Fucking Strips, go to the front of Sunway Pyramid Mall) and hopefully it will shatter and destroy our cars. So with million of cars being destroyed by those markings, what should we do? Go buy another car. But our salaries are so low, we can’t afford continental cars, so what should we do?

Proton. That’s the answer.

Now you can stop calling me genius already.

[Information on Road Surface Markings can be found on Wiki here]

stupid.

Is it just me, or the general driving public has gone down from bad to worse? I had posted a few articles about those lousy drivers here and here. Yet yesterday I was inches away from being hit by a lady driver, and I was, and I still am, extremely pissed about it.

Last night after dropping by a The Curve, I was crossing the PEDASTRIAN CROSSING to go to Ikano to pick up my car at the carpark to go home. After a long day of work and attending a funeral, I was extremely exhausted, and while taking the pedastrian crossing, I noticed a Silver Perodua Kelisa coming towards me.

I took a glance at the oncoming Kelisa, and I noticed the car was travelling at high speed. I continued my walk to Ikano and yet, my superior sixth sense was telling me that something was wrong. I took another glance and I saw the car, ignoring the 3 very high speed bumps installed before the pedastrian crossing, crashing towards me at lightning speed. I took a leap from the pedastrian crossing to the road divider, and when the Kelisa was inches away from me, I finally saw it.

The car was filled with girls, and the driver was a lady driver. Even being so close on paralysing me from waist down for the rest of my life, or worse, taking my life away, the girls inside the car were laughing and clapping their hands.

I mean, what is so goddamn funny about hitting someone while driving? Is it so fucking funny that they were laughing so happily while I had to jump aside to avoid being hit?

That is just plain stupid, and they should not be allowed to drive for the rest of their fucking life. I glared at them fiercefully (and trust me, my piercing glare can tame a tiger) and yet they were still laughing, and sped away from me. At that moment, I was so damn tempted to karate-chop the car bonnet or kick the door as hard as I could to make a statement, and to tell them that I was REALLY pissed.

But I refrained myself from doing so because I am still a highly educated gentleman. But the high educational background doesn’t stop me from cursing them, like how they should crash into a tree and their bodies were disfigured, and how the indonesian workers should rape…

Nevermind. The story is that I am really pissed with all those stupid drivers nowadays.