ORIGINAL VERSION
First of all, I would like to commend on the opening of additional lane on Penang Bridge and also the smoothly tarred road along the Jelutong Expressway.
However, the smooth travel stops the moment road users exit the bridge and head towards the Bayan Lepas area.
In fact, all the road users will have their smooth journey interrupted by the bottleneck at the exit point near the N-Park condominium.
The main reason of the bottleneck is the existence of a pedestrian overhead bridge which reduces the traffic from 4 lanes into 2 lanes within a span of 100meters.
In fact, this very pedestrian bridge affects the traffic flow of both sides of the road depending on the day-to-day traffic condition.
From what I noticed, most of the accidents happened directly or indirectly due to the bottleneck effect.
If the pedestrian overhead bridge is indeed underutilised, please scrap it off and expand the lanes to match the traffic from town or bridge direction and vice-versa.
This will save the state government or the traffic planning department from wasting their resources by conducting traffic survey only on appropriate and suitable areas.
CIPLAK, Georgetown
Sent on: 9 Feb 2010
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