Long and winding road to Ipoh
By Jackie Sim
AUG 21 — I remember being jealous of my friends who were from KL every time a festival rolled round. They did not have to fight with the hordes to buy bus or train tickets home.
When I bought a car, I felt so free. But those days it used to take hours to get back to Ipoh because the old trunk road got very jammed.
One year, it took me and my siblings seven hours to return to KL.
The one good thing about those crawls home was we seldom saw accidents!
With the new north-south highway, journeys home are faster of course. But people seem to be driving more recklessly these days. Or maybe we are just older? Hahahahaha.
Tags: Ipoh Mali
August 21st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Actually in those old days, many fatal accidents do happen on the old trunk roads. Remember the long trailing vechicles following behind a trailer along the dual lanes? It was such a big risk to overtake especially near corners. And if an impatient driver overtakes, he has to overtake 3 -4 cars altogether if the front drivers are chicken types. Drives use to drive at night, taking off about midnight to save daylight time, hoping to reach KL by 7am. Usually near dawn about 4-5am is the sleepiest and many struggle to stay awake. At these unearthly hours, most fatal accidents are likely to happen. I know of one such fatal accident of a car against a lorry which 2 friends died in a blaze. Too sad to relate here.
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August 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
and that were the old days,for a commuter along the west coast the nightmare is over, but for the east coast state mostly kelantanese, travelling home mostly during festive season is 10 times harder, and i can’t put a word on it.
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