Second link and Monorail for Penang

Bad news and good news.....bad because the second link may just encourage more car ownership in Penang and more cars visiting Penang...Its bad news for the environment and very bad news indeed for the oikos. With only one link, many are discouraged to come particularly during the long weekends and festival holidays....but then even now, the streets of Penang are congested with cars with outstation plates....not only cars from Kedah, Selangor, Perak and KL but also Singapore and Thailand.... cheng ming is just around the corner....its going get worse by next week....with the Second Link the road congestion will definitely get worse, the roads in Penang, especilly in georgetown were not designed and aligned for modern traffic, it was aligned in the days for horse carts and bullock carts and maybe later on in 1950's and 1960's for morris minors and baby austin (we already have 1.4 million registered motor vehicles for 1.4 million people....thats alot!!!)

.....Maybe we should build a giant car park at the ferry terminal in Butterworth and give them free and safe car parking services and encourage them to use the public transport system....but then again we must get it right....

We are still struggling to get the public Transport System right....Dr. Teng don't be so quick to say that the Public transport in Penang is ok already...u are a doctor u should know better...the patient can have a quick relapse....

The good news is that we will have a monorail system....lets take this opportunity to have an integrated seamless public transporation system complete with car parks to encourage people to leave their cars either at home (best) or at the very least leave them at the monorail or bus stations and commute to work by public transport....

Just think of all the fuel subsidies it will save the federal government...imagine we can reduce our collective fuel requirements by 10%....we probably save the government by RM400 million per year (maths may be wrong because of the straightline assumption i am using)