PLUS and TOLLol

This is a very disturbing news.

"Menurut Pengarah Urusan PLUS, Datuk Idrose Mohamed, di bawah Perjanjian Konsesi, syarikat itu diberi kuasa untuk mengurus kutipan tol dan seterusnya berkuasa untuk mengesan dan mengatasi masalah penipuan transaksi tol." - Utusan 26/1/05

Pengerusi Majlis Peguam, Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari says ".. pengendali lebuh raya itu tidak mempunyai kuasa dari segi undang-undang negara untuk berbuat demikian!.. "

Meyour, Pengerusi Majlis Pembayar Tol Malaysia says " .... pergi mampus sama itu konsesi .... "

Bloody suckers.... already given 10% toll rate increment some more find ways to suck dry out people money. Petrol price increase, toll also increase, road congestion also increase, penalties some more, land slide also increase, number of people died also increase, the only thing remain cool is "Summon Me Value".


SHIT #1 HAPPEN
This time penalty shit will effect people like me, I always stop by this rest area just before Damansara Toll exit. I took a nap there before fetching my wife. If I finish my work earlier, I may even stay there for more than 2 hours, taking a nap and work on something from inside my car. So if I were from Subang toll or Jalan Duta tolls, it should take me less than 10 minutes to complete the journey. How do I explain the 2 hours time gap? Would they accept if I told them I was one of The 4400?

SHIT #2 HAPPEN
Aren't every Toll entrance should have a U-turn? or an option for those who are not familiar with the area and decided to make a you turn? Some LDP does have a U-turn (Sunway toward Puchong, also one in USJ), however I hardly / never see one on PLUS. One nite I was from Sg Buloh heading toward Kepong. I miss this flyover towards commuter station, then I saw another flyover toward Sg Buloh toll, I goes up, turn right and to my horror there is no right turning anymore, so drive toward the toll and again no u-turn?

So I end-up driving all the day Damansara Utama taking a u-turn @ Damansara Utama and pay the bloody toll again. RM1.50 + RM1.50 (2 ways).

I always check out at Sg Buloh toll, but I hardly enter thru Sg Buloh toll, that's why I wasn't so sure of the condition. And Kota Damansara not yet open, else it will be shorter journey.

Imagine if I were unfamiliar with the area and upon entering Sg Buloh I took Ipoh/Rawang instead of Damansara.... sure damn die woo... course next toll would be Rawang.

SHIT #3 HAPPEN
This one I cannot takan already. Every morning exiting Damansara Utama toll was a nightmare. Last time I tried to escape this Damansara shit by exiting Subang toll, I got farkup even worst. Queue all the way to main highways.

Last week, Damansara Utama exit queue again build up until main highway, for the first time I decided to try Kota Damansara exit. Ok, no queue but then I must take exit to LDP via Mutiara Damansara, queue u-turn at Penchala before heading to SS2. Bad decision....

Today, Damansara Utama like shit again, shit all over the road, all kind of shit, the kind you pay to step on. So I tried another alternative, I saw not much shit exiting to Damansara from the other side to I drive all the way to Kota Damansara and make a u-turn entering Kota Damansara toll and drive all the way to Damansara Utama exit. It was better but cost me extra RM1.50.

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My home is 40 km far from office. Normally it took me 1 hours to reach office. My first 35 km took me 30 minutes, another 30 minutes is for the last 5 km. Going home, no traffic, I can reach home within 30 minutes.


I just found out in old entish language Damansara used to be called Damn-And-Sengsara.