Traffic Parade....

On Monday, I drove down from Bandar for work. I experienced first-hand the now-infamous traffic jam that takes place along the Tutong-Seria road every morning. It is every motorist's worst nightmare, getting stuck in a long line of cars and moving at a speed barely 60 kmph. Apparently the traffic jam would start at half past six in the morning.

Yesterday, it was worse than usual. The traffic jam started when the dual carriageway ended near Telisai. An accident had happened earlier and the cars had been moved to the side of the road. Drivers slowed down to see what was happening and this caused a traffic jam, which ended near the Telisai Mosque.

Going further down, another traffic jam started. It was even worse than the first one. This traffic jam would go all the way from Sungai Paku area (near the Golden Chick Hatchery) to the Sungai Liang Police Station, a distance of about 10 km. It was caused by the huge amount of car that tried to get out of the Labi road onto the main Tutong-Seria road.

Among one of the things that annoyed me was when some drivers were not patient enough and would try to overtake the long line of cars. They could not really move much; they probably went just a few cars ahead. One of the cars could not even get back into the line when the cars from the opposite direction were approaching. This irresponsible driver then caused another long line of cars on the other lane. Just pure stupidity! Why couldn't these drivers wait and stay in the line like the other drivers? There was even a point even you could see quite a few cars overtaking the line, probably seeing that one car did it and it caused some sort of domino effect.

I have only one advice to these people who can't seem to wait like the other drivers: leave home early.