KOTA KINABALU - Member of Parliament for Tawau, Datuk Chua Soon Bui, told the Ministry of Transport to suspend the installation of AES in Malaysia including the 21 speed traps camera and 12 traffic lights camera in Sabah until the public are well informed of its practicality and logistic.
She said if the objectives of the AES are to reduce road accidents and reckless driving, then the cameras should be installed at black spots and high accident prone areas. Ample signboards should be installed on the speed limits and warning signage before the vicinity of the AES cameras. This will give drivers time to condition to the AES as the AES should be used as a warning for careful driving rather than a punishment to the drivers.
Chua, who is also Vice President of Sabah Progressive Party hoped that JKR will not reduce the speed limit at federal roads during festive season as it is confusing to drivers who frequent the roads. "It is also unfair to the drivers that signages are not installed when the speed limits are changed," she claimed.
"With the planned 12 AES camera at traffic lights, 1 in Tawau and 12 in Kota Kinabalu, I hope the JKR will make necessary measures as it only takes about 3 seconds switching from orange to red light, it will be unfair for drivers to be caught in camera during this fast transition. Furthermore, the implementation at the initial stage might cause minor traffic accidents as some drivers would be extra careful at traffic lights.
She urged the JKR to install digital timing signals at traffic lights so that drivers will be able to estimate the transition of green to red light better.
Chua concurred with most of the Members of Parliament that AES should be suspended until all the necessary measures are taken to unburden the pressure on the drivers.
"The ministry to do trial run and seek public consultation in Sabah before any implementation and wish to warn the Ministry not to use AES to lay golden eggs for the government especially in the impending minimum traffic fine of RM300.
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ReplyDeletePolis perlu bertugas untuk menangani masalah kesesakan
ReplyDeleteMungkin perlu tambah lorong jalan dan bina fly over. kalau ada LRT atau MRT kan lagi bagus.hehe
DeleteThe Road Transport Department (JPJ) has revealed the precise locations of 14 cameras that are now capturing pictures of traffic offenders under the Automated Enforcement System (AES).
ReplyDeleteThe JPJ says that the sites chosen have been identified as ‘black spots’ so it is hoped that the presence of the AES cameras will have a positive effect in reducing accidents in those spots. The locations were identified with assistance from MIROS.
ReplyDeleteOf the 14 locations listed on the JPJ’s website, 4 are mobile locations, meaning that the cameras will not be on all the time as they will be set up periodically by personnel who will remain at the sites for specific periods. 4 are at junctions to record motorists who ignore red lights, while the remainder are fixed cameras and operational 24 hours.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the JPJ’s Director-General, Datuk Solah Mat Hassan, 817 additional cameras will be installed under Phase 2 which would see the AES being implemented throughout the country.
ReplyDeleteIt is rare that the authorities are willing to provide such information to motorists and it would appear that the JPJ is genuinely interested in reducing the number of road accidents than in using the AES as a source of revenue (‘thumbs-up’ for the JPJ). In principle, the idea of having speed traps should not be to enrich the law enforcement agencies or the government but to ‘persuade’ motorists to abide by the speed limit and reduce accidents.
ReplyDeletejalan d Sabah harus diperbesarkan dan dinaiktaraf.
ReplyDeleteThe government’s insistence on going ahead with the Automated Enforcement System (AES) is seeing growing resistance from Umno grassroots with a blog and Facebook account set up this week to oppose the speed cameras, in a sign that the speed cameras are turning into a political quagmire for Barisan Nasional (BN).
ReplyDeletePakatan Rakyat (PR) has already given notice of its intentions to exploit the AES controversy and with elections just months away, Umno grassroots are now turning on the heat against what has been seen as an MCA initiative.
Deleteaes-malaysia.blogspot.com, a blog set up by anonymous Umno supporters this week, appears to be taking a page out of the federal opposition’s script in its posts that attack the AES cameras.
DeleteA blog has asked why a speed camera has been fixed on the wide Putrajaya Highway but none on the accident-prone Gambang-Maran trunk road near Kuantan.
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Delete“Does it make sense that a dual carriageway in Putrajaya has a speed limit of 70kph, while a federal road from Gambang to Maran that is exposed to many junctions, people crossing, cows crossing, has a speed limit of 90kph with no AES.
“This wide road in Putrajaya... with an AES camera. How many people have died there?”
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DeleteThe widespread suspicion that the introduction of the AES is motivated by profits and not road safety has been at the heart of PR’s campaign and rising public anger.
DeleteBoth ATES and Beta Tegap are entitled to RM16 per valid summons for the first five million issued. They will then split the remaining revenue evenly with the government up to a cap of RM270 million each.
DeleteThe firms will each receive 7.5 per cent from the remaining revenue and the government will keep the rest.
PR parties have suggested that the companies are linked to the MCA and Umno but this has been vehemently denied.
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DeleteThe aes-malaysia.blogspot.com blog also provides links to news stories from the United States, Britain and Australia about how speed cameras have become cash cows for local councils.
The arguments put up by Umno supporters mirror that of PR parties, suggesting concerns that the AES controversy could unite voters behind the federal opposition.
Delete“If AES is allowed to proceed it will be very difficult for us to answer accusations hurled at us by the opposition. This is one issue that can potentially unite all the races against BN,” an Umno branch leader from Perak told The Malaysian Insider.
DeleteWhile Kong and other government leaders have been defending AES in the name of road safety, the two companies concerned have kept silent about the controversial cameras.
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