KL, KL

It was interesting to watch YB Muhammad Aziz of Sri Gading in Parliament interrupting the Deputy Minister of Federal Territory while he was rounding up answers to questions raised by Members of Parliament. YB Muhammad was disappointed with KL. He said there is nothing good about KL, traffic jam everywhere, a slight rain will choke the whole city, food is not only expensive but tasteless, hawkers do not keep their stalls clean, toilets are dirty and so on.It was really a bashing of KL.Those living and working in KL will definitely agree with YB Muhammad Aziz. Not a single day passes in KL without the traffic woes. Just imagine the hours lost on the road just to get to work or to get home. Public transport?The LRT?Packed like sardines, bad odour all over, no air-conditioning, not enough coaches.Buses not on time.Impossible when the jams are all over. The LRT has not enough lines to cover the city.One has to leave one's car in the hot sun in an area where there is no security.One get the impression the city planning of KL is really haphazard.The problems are not new.Approvals for development at places that obviously will create problems to existing housing estates as in Medan Damansara are given.While we try very hard to beautify the city including changing the kerbside turf in some areas a number of times, a number of areas such as the wet market of Chow Kit Road has not seen any development for the last 51 years! It would seem that it is impossible to bring about change to the place.Other areas such as Lorong Haji Taib continue to be the "drug areas".Even the police feels insecure and remove its beat.
The growing number of illegal visitors is all over town.Some areas are being "controlled" by them posing all sorts of social problems. There is the nigerian area, the myanmar area, the bangla area, the vietnamese area (recently they threw a dog's head in the common garbage area of an apartment area).It appears that we are extremely generous with foreign visitors even those who overstayed.If only a census is carried out in Kampong Baru and Kampong Pandan one will find the population has swelled with Indonesians, legal and otherwise.
Judging from the way the city is managed currently, whatever objectives of future plans for the city will be difficult to achieve.The city is managed by a Minister, a Mayor and a Director -General.What else do you need to make it a comfortable place to live?