KL flirts with congestion fees

New broom sweeps well.

The intention is nobel, execution to be think again in totality. The fundamental of human existent is to exercise Fair and Justice. The statement that the city has improved public transportation is half-cooked at this point in time.

Kuala Lumpur comprises of inner City and greater City. It is totally unfair and injustice for the people of greater Kuala Lumpur to be charged over peak hours levy. Indeed, the inner city of Kuala Lumpur is equipped with effective public transporation but not necessarily efficient. Can anyone of us be sure that we can get public transport to Jalan Semarak from Kajang as we desired or from Jalan Istana Baru to Wangsa Maju without using our own transport at any time of the day .

Life not always work as planned. Morning rush hour are not always as predicatable as clock works.

People in authority should make themselves aware of the implication on such public statement if so implemented. Implication to late arrival at work for private sector staff may bring bigger implication to industrial relations, perhaps not for the City Hall. "Independent Mobility" is what it makes Kuala Lumpur to thrive all this while.

Benchmark the level of public transport to the required "Independent Mobility" of people in the social context and not environmental issues alone. If the public transportation system still fail to provide to the level of "Independent Mobility" to the people both at inner city and greater city of Kuala Lumpur, people will for sure curse those who make the decision as such; thus failure of leadership to exercise fair and justice.

Has we put up study of why people willingly to be in the car and stuck in the jam for hours, yet people still accepted it. Have we put up a study on the exchange of situation whereby instead of stuck in the jam, people will lose "Independent Mobility" in exchange to less traffic on the road. "Independent Mobility" is required for middle class income earner. Sending kids to school, wife to offices before entering Kuala Lumpur are all it takes for middle class people. Now to charge this kind of people when they enter Kuala Lumpur alone in the car in the morning ? Is this fair ?

Commission a study team to be led by academicians and validated at academicians level and present to the public for sentiment assessment before we make decision. Meanwhile, academicians team must be equipped with the balance composition of social sciences and pure sciences experts.

Totally examine sharing point of mass transit availability ie: locality of mass transport point to location of dwellings or housings to the locality of mass transport at locations of offices before the congestion fees ever being thought of.

Statement should has been " We shall equipped Kuala Lumpur with public transportation system to the level of Independent Mobility to all. There will be a proper middle and longer term plan on this". This is what people of Kuala Lumpur wants. People of Kuala Lumpur will switch to public transport if the level of Independent Mobility offered by public transportation system is equal if not better than own transport.

Challenge to the new Mayor;

"Drive the public transportation system in Kuala Lumpur to the level that Independent Mobility is offered to all class of people, which is equal if not better than using own transport"

Certain countries impose such levy upon reaching the level of independent Mobility offered by the public transportation system which at equal level of Independent Mobility using own vehicle.

Please examine the verse in Al-Quran surah 36 (Yassin), verse 36. The verse shed the light of what it takes to do things. It is a given framework by god to us human in creating new things may it be products or systems or even processes. All the time exercise Fair and Justice, failing which we are not fit to lead as the Caliph of human kind thus better be the follower.