Being using it since it was built back in the early 2000.
The highway or rather expressway (at some section) were quite taunting to drive on. Its undulation condition can be quite unnerving to the unsuspecting speedsters which could bounce their car off the tarmac.
Besides the undulations condition of the road surfaces, debris such as chunks of tyre rubbers, stones, pebbles, rubbish etc. were considered quite normal in this part of the highway. If you are unlucky enough to have ran over one, be prepared for some heavy car repair work.
Resulting from such debris as well is pebbles thrown up by ill shielded backends of lorry and trucks. This flying pebbles sometimes the size of a 10sen will cracked if not shatter windscreen.
During my days with my Wira, I have had 3 windscreen changes in a span of 5 years resulting directly from pebbles thrown up along Kesas highway.
Not to mention also the dins and scratch on the bonnet of the car from these projectiles.
Now lately, there seems to be some sort of riot happening at Kesas.
1. Heavy vehicles are no longer following the rules to drive on the slow lane. I have noticed this lately with many truckers preferred to drive either on the middle lane or some on the fast lane. Hogging up the road.
Without being prejudiced, I checked if the left aka slow lane were clogged which explains why the truckers were on the middle lane. And to my disbelief, the slow lane were actually empty for at least quarter of a mile. With this distance of emptiness, the truckers have no reason whatsoever not to be using them but instead hogging now the middle lane.
2. Heavy vehicles have found themselves a new habit of using the light vehicle toll booths instead of the designated ones situated usually on the leftest side of the toll plaza.
Now, this have created a massive disorientation situation where heavy vehicles begin to jostle for position to use light vehicle lanes.
It is not much of an issue if the booths were also located on the far left of the plaza, but with some of these light vehicles only booth on the right side, these heavy lorrys just crossed over from the slow lane to the rightest part of the approaching toll plaza.
Can you now imagine the danger of these crossing over of long heavy vehicles to the right?
It would be a massive vehicle pile up if one such drivers were to span his lorry across the toll plaza and causing other vehicles to collide with it.
3. In relation to the above point, when exiting the toll, these heavy vehicles were more and often slower to accelerate to speed. Causing faster and nimbler vehicles needing to overtake them from the left. Now, by law it says overtaking on the left is illegal, and with such unlawfulness of the heavy vehicles, it has created a more dire situation of choas.
Kesas is a life line of industry. The lifeline for many importation of goods and exportations of local manufactured products. Needless to say, it is extremely important to the growth of the nation. With such importance put on, Kesas authority should be more perceptive in ensuring the the safety of the users of this highway and to ensure all measures are taken to prevent accidents from happening.
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