Hiking fuel price : Stop Driving, Start Cycling

Posted On Thursday, June 5th, 2008

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Is there any chance by all means that our country will have bicycle park of its own that gonna have a look like picture above? I hope our Malaysian won’t pretty much maximize their two-wheeler like the second picture above. This happens in India. :p


Did you know why our Malaysian even though fuel price is hiking, but none of us are changing to bicycle for daily use even though we can afford to buy the most expensive ones? I did give a thought about this before and come out with few points listed below:

  1. Malaysia has a very hot climate and high in humidity. Hot climate means lots of lots sweat and high humidity means that sweat won’t dry off easily! If you cycle for 5 minutes to your office, I very sure you gonna sweat like mad. And by the time you reach to your office, there are no shower whatsoever to comfort or clean yourself! Malaysia is high humidity which means high water vapor in air. When there’s high water vapor in air it slows down the drying process of your sweat! Believe me because I used to cycle to my campus during my second year. After that, I decide to walk. Ahaha. :))



  2. Ergonomically speaking, cycling can kill you here. So far, I almost got hit 3 times. I hit 2 girls in campus (seriously not for fun ok). Actually why hitting thing happen? Because pedestrains and riders are using the same road! I hit that girl not because of her number (she’s fat), I accidentally hit because we’re are sharing the same road. And that road we’re sharing also used by cars and motors. So I was avoiding the car coming from front and guess what happen next? You know it! So they (to whom whoever may concern) should prepare a road for pedestrians and bicycle riders. Other busy road also really indeed need if there a lot of riders there too.



  3. Check out the bus, I don’t feel like riding one.? Why? There has been so many cases before about bus express accidents. By statistics , it was proven that these bus drivers are underpaid thus elevate them all to drive without any single care at all! Remember “The Bus of Death”? The bus from Melaka Sentral bound to Alor Setar which killed 21 beloved passengger inside including the busdriver himself. So by having a dangerous public transprtation, why should you risk your safety after all we can provide on our own by driving a car, right ?



  4. Lrt, Putra, Monorel, and ERL doesn’t reach every single corner of KL.? You got to be kidding me if you’re cycling. For KL residents, this is one of the main problem to commute. That’s why a lot prefer to park and ride the train. But the bottom line is they still driving though.



  5. Generally, parents would say, “The kids are going to school. So I need to sent them by car. You think you want me to carry them with my bicycle?” Think again. Wakaka.



Yesterday our Government already announced the new fuel pricing with exceptional of 40.6% (Malaysiakini.com) increment. So in the evening itself as my family going to fill the petrol, here in Putrajaya watches a long queve from the Precinct 16 Petronas station until up close to Alamanda Shopping Complex. That is like almost 800 meter long of queving cars. By 9 o’clock at night, still long queve. But this time it was in the watch by the police. Police were there to watch the traffic.


I believe it is the time Malaysians look to the Westerners or simply the nearest is the Japanese where they cycles or commutes by train to office.


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