I had been quite lucky avoiding the traffic jams when travelling between Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur, especially when my friend leaves his house to fetch his wife before 5.00pm and I head back to PJ.
But having to fetch my daughter from Uptown at 7.00pm yesterday evening, I left at 6.30pm from Section 14. What normally takes 20 minutes (after carefully chosen off peak time) took 1 hour 40 minutes! It was bad right from the start at Jalan Utara near Hussein Onn Eye Hospital. I cannot remember exactly the times but she called when I was yet to reach Rothman's roundabout, then RHB Bank at junction of Jalan SS2/75, then before the traffic lights next to Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong. Later I was told, she was giving a running commentary to her seniors who stayed behind knowing she was waiting for her father!
Of all days, when I was stuck with the massive traffic jam (the vehicles seem unable to disperse and there were no obvious reasons why, apart from a short spell of rain) my son arranged with some relatives to have dinner together. It was a general feeling of helplessness when one cannot even get back and just call it off. So it was a chain reaction of being late from one person who I had to fetch to another and having to apologise to those at the end of it. The only consolation was that I am not living here but I pity those having to travel to and from work in Klang Valley.
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