The following article has been written by Elviza Michelle Kamal, who is the lawyer, the Blogger, the Mom as well as the concerned citizen.
By Elviza Michele Kamal
November 2, 2012
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We were seventeen as well as didn't know any better. On which fateful Saturday dusk you waited for Rai to collect me for the little critical merrymaking. Rai was the lady you all desired to hate: she was faultless.
Blessed with the might of the genius, pointy tasteful features, soft wavy hair as well as the smile which rivaled any of Colgate's poster advertisement models, Rai was the ray of fever for her family. Above all, to me, Rai knew how to be the crony whenever you was in need.
1992 was Rai's year. She aced all the subjects in her SPM, upheld her pushing test as well as even got herself the new boyfriend. To tip it all off, her parents had just surprised her with the code new Honda Civic in the porch - for her sole use.
But my wait which Saturday had no end. Seconds incited to minutes, mins to hours as well as as twilight incited to night, you knew something was wrong. In the pre-handphone era, you mislaid equate how many times you had dialed Rai's home number. you fell asleep not meaningful iftomorrow would come.
Rai died instantaneously; the little sa! id her d eath was painless.
In her rush to collect her boyfriend before creation her way to my house, Rai was speeding during 130 kilometres an hour - during least. She mislaid control of the Honda; strike the concrete dividing barrier; andturned the vehicle over the few times around before an oncoming bureau bus eventually crashed in to her.
Checkmate.
The next few days were the blur of activities you can no longer recall in exact detail. But what still haunts me until currently is the sound of Rai's mom wailing in despair. The loss of her usually daughter was so great; she was never the same woman again.
If usually Rai had been educated upon highway safety; if usually someone had drilled in to her shining skull which speed kills; if usually AES had instilled the fear of God in to her... you would right away be receiving the kids to play gym upon weekends as well as angry about the husbands.
However, you live in the republic with massively polarized domestic views. Let's call the spade the spade: you all love to politicise everything. Everyone out there - generally the politicians - is set to get us as well as cheat the hard-earned income in the name of administration department as well as tax.
All is great in the name of the overrated phrase of 'we agree to disagree'. you have been following the heated discuss upon AES closely. But it was Kinabatangan's matter in The Malaysian Insider which brought my simmering anger to hot point. Kinabatangan longed for AES to be postponed since it is too nearby to the general election. Yes, you heard me.
WTF?
Please Kinabatangan,don't leave the reserve of my family upon the highway to pave way for your ambitions in theelection. You can keep your reservations about the AES where the object doesn't shine.
And Pokok Sena, greatfully do not censor during the behind of your pseudo-Herculean effort of providing free authorised service to those caught. You have been the politician as well as you am the mother. How could you then ever verbalise the same lingo in so distant as reserve is concerned?
So my query began.
I researched as well as read about AES until you became blue in the face from sleep-deprivation. you called the applicable authorities as well as companies. Some were gracious sufficient to feed me information you needed while the rest just slammed down the phone upon me. No matter, for you longed for to know better. Judgment contingency be shaped upon the scold axis as well as someone contingency set the record straight.
This articles stands to be prepared from any angle, however, in the suggestion of putting issue in to perspective. you will cover usually the few concerns outset from the AES.
Who's creation RM700 Million?
The two companies managing the AES have been not creation RM700 million in the camber of 5 years as insisted upon by the opposition.
AES is the private financial initiative (PFI) which sees the supervision not forking out the singular cent to set up the system or pledge any payment in sell of services rendered by the two companies which had won the contract over 9 alternative bidders. At the finish of 5 years, the supervision will fully own the system but having to reimburse the companies.
The profit lapse of the two companies is designed upon the risk-reward mechanism as against to market norms as well as alternative supervision lopsided contracts.
But as the Opposition clouds the public's view upon the issue ofrevenue of the companies alone, no one seems to care about how many income had been outlayed to exercise the AES. Each of the AES camera costs RM240k per section (excluding the cost for telecommunications, polite works, infrastructure, behind office as well as depot costs).
Above all, if you have been not speeding orbeating red lights, not the singular cent can be raised from the RM700 millionprojectedrevenue.
So because fret about it?
Camera during thirty kilometre per hour spots
Referring to the subject as to because the little of the AES locations have been not within the "blackspot" area, JPJ had issued the matter before to the launch of the initial proviso which these due locations will be updated from time to time, formed upon the findings of the JPJ's AES technical committee. This is essentially the non-issue.
Pemuda UMNO Malaysia, too, has issued the matter doubt the need to place AES cameras during locations with the 30km/hour speed limit. While the subject is valid, the 5 due cameras during the 30km/hour zoneshave the larger suggestion as well as reasoning during the behind of it: these 5 spots have been in close proximity to schools as well as hospitals.
This is essentially in line with the findings of the non-profit company formed in the UK known asSafer Roads. If you strike the kid who has smaller physique surface area as well as miss the capability to make scold decision upon highway reserve during the sp! eed of 4 0 miles per hour, you will kill the child.
Pleas
At the finish of this overpowering discuss - when you take income as well as implementation out of the equation - reserve stays priceless. Road reserve is the habit. If you do not begin now, you will remove an additional Rai bland upon the roads.
Have you turn so calculative with dollars as well as cents which you have been skeptical of devices set up to save the lives upon the road?
Have you turn the republic so cloyed with each open process thatwe fail to see what counts the many while pushing have been discipline as well as the sense of responsibility?
Have you turn the republic so spooky in fine-tuning implementationthat you forgetthat hold up does not lift the cost tag?
Have you turn the republic so bereft of care which you put domestic seductiveness forward of the child's reserve upon the road?
And how you instruct the AES had been implemented 20 years ago, so you could still have Rai in my life; so Rai's mom can still moment the smile upon her face.
Speed kills. That is all there is to it.
Elviza is the counsel upon sabbatical leave; she is the mom initial on top of everything else. She tweets at@elviza
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