Translation: since 1am we start driving from Ampang. Now 6am, we only reached Gombak. We’re staying strong!
Context: in malaysia, every eid al-fitr where muslim travel back home to celebrate, this is the common sight on every major road in Kuala Lumpur(capital city) leading to highway and on highway. For most people there’s hundreds of kilometers left to go, and this is the only way to travel to east coast. A new 665km highspeed train line for east coast is coming early next year, which is under construction for nearly 10 years!
It’s gonna be worst in 2029 where eid is celebrated back to back with chinese new year, which about 90% of malaysian are celebrating.
Driving home for
christmasEid.I once had a similar thing in the Philippines. Driving from the City of San Fernando to Manilla took over 6 hours! Granted, it was some local holiday but I had to travel there for work and it was frustrating as hell! Traffic in the Philippines is crazy!
That is crazy to me.
I hate driving in general, but will typically be okay with nearly doubling my travel time (up to like an hour) if it means I am in constant motion. So I’ll happily take small side streets and drive two small towns over and avoid a highway on the off chance that there’s a traffic jam. Some highways are almost guaranteed to be at a standstill at certain times anyway, but surprise stoppages always seems like a given when my wife and I travel more than a few hours from home.
It doesn’t seem like that’s an option to drive on non-highways, from the translation post, sadly. Fingers crossed they get the public transit sorted next year, and improve it for 2029. That sounds like a bad time for everyone.
Yep, that’s the crazy thing about this, there’s no road leading home without major jam. There’s a post few years back where even the dirt road used by nearby plantation is jammed up. If there’s a road there’s jam.
Even crazier is this isn’t like new thing, this is yearly occasion, people actually acknowledge there’s issue, politician acknowledge there’s issue, but for decades all they know is build more highway
As for the train line, it is a single and double track mix train line that also serve cargo train, the upside is it’s cheaper to build and our government do actually stop transportation company from using highway few days before and after this two major festive season, so no worries that passanger train have to give priority to cargo train.
I just looked at a map to confirm cause I struggled to believe this and damn, you were NOT kidding. Heading east out of the city into the mountains there are 2 roads, and absolutely nothing else.
