driving in Bintulu

Driving in Bintulu can really drive you crazy!!. despite all the trunks roads from Bintulu old town to Tjg Kidurong and other housing areas are dual carriage way?! Let me share you my thoughts and experience. Imagine a situation where you drive your car and accelerate at 80 km/hr. complying to the speed limit, while you are in hurry to your office, and right in front of you a MyVi taking its sweet time travelling at 40 km/hr. on the right hand side of the highway without feeling any sense of guilt and shame!? And, making it worst, when you try to overtake it from the left lane, the road condition in some stretches are not good – with potholes and bumpy. If you guys realized, the roads’ surfaces at many big three of four big traffic-light junctions around Bintulu are clumpy and bumpy…and it has been there many years ago without anyone (I mean the Authorities) looking at it seriously. There was once, right in front of my eyes, while waiting for the traffic light turn green at the Medan Jaya-Raya tee-junction, a motorbike rider skidded in the middle of the junction. Lucky, nothing really happened to him and his machine. Well, we cannot forever rely on pure luck! Should we? Another annoying experience I had (actually many times) was somebody stopped on the left lane waiting for no more vehicles moving on the road or coming to his side!!...and after that he actually wanted to go to the right!? In some situation, big heavy vehicles, like Lorries conquered the right lane as they like as if they own the lane. This vulgar, I think, with their couldn’t-care-less attitude accelerated recklessly on the right lane because the road condition on the left is relatively bad compared to the right lane, which was mainly due to the sub-standard quality of the road and heavily used by heavy vehicles. I would blame the authority and/or the engineer who design and made the road. They should have used their brains wisely and creatively, far sighted before they simply put their pen on the drawing board. Definitely, the authority who approved the blue print should shoulder the accountabilities…………and to carry the blames!! Or, it might be because along the way, somebody is making easy money? Damn to corruption…