QUOTE(davkong @ Oct 7 2011, 02:38 AM)
Found this video.. after looking at this, i felt that the out of the so called 9 points danger points pointed by the RAs, only one is valid due to SW, the others are just normal criss-crossing which is already happening at the moment and you can find this every where in city, albeit the traffic condition will be compounded with the opening of SW, but that is not due to bad traffic design.
The one point for concern is how vehicle from LDP is going into SW main entrance and the effect on vehicles coming out from Persiaran Wawasan. It seems like there will be a traffic light at the junction to let vehicles into SW and out of Persiaran Wawasan. If this is the case then there will not be criss-crossing as claimed but traffic will be held up at the junction, and that is the main point.
The proposed ramp will not work coz it will clash with the pedestrian bridge...
I agree that many "danger" points are existing situations even without SW.
But these points are still OK to accommodate the traffic flow for existing residential area if without SW.
After SW is ready here, it worsen the situation.
These "criss-crossing" situations become problems now.
So, I think that it's fair for the residents, SW and MPSJ to look into the problem before it's too late.
I would say the current chaos was caused by few parties (order by priority):
1. MPSJ should not approve the traffic plan without further study (and may be they should survey to existing residents?).
2. SPS didn't study traffic flow thoroughly when starting the development. I was informed that SPS studied the traffic flow during off-peak hour (not sure how true it is).
IMO, may be MPSJ should be responsible for the easing traffic flow tasks instead of SW because they approved it before.
MPSJ should be accountable for this approval.
Of course, real world story could be different.