BERNAMA - 10 Killed, Two Injured In Bus Tragedy Near Ipoh

IPOH, Dec 26 (Bernama) -- Ten passengers were killed and two injured, one seriously, after a double-decker Sani Express bus skidded and hit the road divider at Km272.8 of the North-South Expressway as it was heading north, about 8km after the Ipoh Selatan toll plaza, early Saturday.

BERNAMA - 10 Killed, Two Injured In Bus Tragedy Near Ipoh

My condolences to families of the victims. The issues of buses involved in fatal accidents are getting serious. We need to find a lasting solutions....

AZ Mokhtar 

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Move to raise number of commuters in the Klang Valley

THE Government is targeting a ridership of 600,000 people for public transport services in the Klang Valley by the end of 2012 under the National Key Result Areas (NKRA) initiatives, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.

Move to raise number of commuters in the Klang Valley

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Showroom for new solutions - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Showroom for new solutionsIn the next few years, several different experimental schemes will test electric cars in practice in a large electrical system.

Showroom for new solutions - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

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Failure in Copenhagen is not an option - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Failure in Copenhagen is not an optionIf the world fails to deliver a political agreement at the UN climate conference in December, it will be “the whole global democratic system not being able to deliver results in one of the defining challenges of our century”, says incoming COP15 president, Connie Hedegaard.

Failure in Copenhagen is not an option - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Smart Traffic System

Speed Kills -Drive carefully

A video posted on youtube that was sent to me by a facebook friend. A reminder to all of us on the need to drive carefully.

Traffic Congestion and Reliability: Trends and Advanced Strategies for Congestion Mitigation: Executive Summary

The report Traffic Congestion and Reliability: Trends and Advanced Strategies for Congestion Mitigation provides a snapshot of congestion in the United States by summarizing recent trends in congestion, highlighting the role of travel time reliability in the effects of congestion, and describing efforts to reduce the growth of congestion. This is the second in an annual series developed by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Operations.Much of the report is devoted to communicating recent trends in congestion. (See Figure ES.1 for an overview of congestion trends.) One of the key principles that the FHWA has promoted is that the measures used to track congestion should be based on the travel time experienced by users of the highway system. While the transportation profession has used many other types of measures to track congestion (such as "level of service"), travel time is a more direct measure of how congestion affects users. Travel time is understood by a wide variety of audiences—both technical and non-technical—as a way to describe the performance of the highway system. All of the congestion measures used in the report are based on this concept.

Traffic Congestion and Reliability: Trends and Advanced Strategies for Congestion Mitigation: Executive Summary

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Fatal accidents involving express busses

This refers to the accidents in the early morning near the Rawang toll plaza last week. Six lives were lost including the co driver. Yesterday the bus drivers were brought to courts.

• Punitive measures alone will not help to reduce the incidents.

• We have seen many accidents before. And the drivers were also dealt with in accordance to the law. But the accidents keep on happening.

• Something is amiss here. Did we overlooked something basics here.

• Those accidents are they the problems or are they the symptoms to the bigger problems.

• Let's benchmarked with the transport mode that have the best safety records. The air transportion.

• Air transportation have the following system in place:
~ Comprehensive law
~ Procedures on ownership
~ Registration of aircrafts
~ maintenance of aircrafts,
~ flight operations,
~ air and ground safety,
~ training,
~ licensing
~ And last but not least an enforcement agency that bites.
~ trade associations
~ consumer associations
~ close rapport between manufacturers, operators, employees and the consumers.

• The whole system is functioning well in air transportation

• Perhaps the road transport authority should learn from their air transport conterpart in the same ministry on the systems development.

• System thinking rather than fire fighting.
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Traffic Generator

The morning peak traffic congestion after the Putrajaya- KL toll exit.



Highways and Roads are traffic generators especially in urban areas. The more highways we build the more traffic it will attracts. Increasing the problem of traffic congestion. The solution that we choose is a problem.



Its about time we choose a different transport solution. Perhaps we should be more serious about public transportation.





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Simple rules but very difficult to follow

This picture I took at the round about of section 20 Shah Alam, this morning.

The MPV is about to cut in and beat the queue. She knew very well there are others who have been patiently waiting in line.

She looks educated but then unable to follow basic social rules of modern day living. I am sure this is not the first time she did it.

Be courteous and follow basic traffic rules should be the norms if we want to be regarded as a citizen of a develop economy.

If adults are doing it, why complained about MAT REMPIT !!!

End/ Zahir
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The new Skypark Terminal Subang

The new Skypark terminal at Subang is taking shape. What used to be the domestic terminal 3 is now transformed as an international integrated air transportation terminal. Apart from Firefly and Berjaya Air arrivals and departures, it also cater for business and private jets. An exclusive world class FBO operates from the terminal.

Work will also start soon on a huge comercial and business center opposite the terminal. It will also incorporate a rail link.

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Air Disaster

Today as usual on Saturday morning after my morning prayers I would spent time catching up with the news. Oh no!! another air disaster, and again happening in very bad weather conditions.  After all this years when we thought that the industry has manage to get their act together to ensure zero accidents. In fact few accidents have been recorded recently. As someone from the air travel industry I am saddened by these events. It looks like we are back to our drawing boards...

This accidents that I've attached is the latest happenings. My condolences to all the families, passengers and crew members.

A commuter plane crashed into a suburban Buffalo home and erupted in flames late Thursday, killing all 48 people aboard and one person on the ground, authorities said.

AirDisaster.Com News: Continental Connection/Colgan Q400 crashes in Buffalo, NY

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