Maintenance culture is still unheard off. Imagine we loosing a human in our sewers and drains with the authorities not knowing what goes where. Than there is the leaf litter and plastic rubbish clogging road drains grills.
While driving in Kuala Lumpur, wherever it rains it tends to flood easily because of the nice side walkway pavements that easily raised up the water levels and couldn't drain fast enough into the drainage system. It will turn into a mini streams of water just in a matter of minutes after a heavy downpour. If it starts to rain heavily, it better to look for higher ground and park your car in the high rise building and wait for the storm to pass over. I won't risked driving through the floods with the rest of the stranded cars caught in the flooded areas. It will be very expensive towing your car to the garage repair shops and it will affects the selling values of your car. Lastly, while driving under heavy rain do avoid going fast downhill caused that's where the water logged areas will be the deepest pools of stagnated water formed. You can easily loose control of your car after hitting those water logged areas. I don't know whether I can claim any insurances if the car repair bills are high when it is caused by an act of God fine print policy. It not whether KL will survive but rather how will I survive in a situation like this?
Malaysian always wait till it happens. There is no proactive action. How many people you know has water barriers ready for the houses and shops to prevent water into their premises.
When the infrastructure is built on less population density but later found to be hopelessly inadequate what do the authorities need to do? Approve more developments while lining their pockets? Hold the developers responsible for ensuring that the waterways are adequate when its the authorities role to do so? The first solution is to erase corruption within the pbt's then the rest will fall into place. The people responsible will do the necessary to ensure that infrastructure is more than enough to sustain development in future years. The experts can give all their solutions but the elephant in the room says that corruption needs to be curtailed for KL to fight mother nature. I feel for those affected periodically by rising waters but its a given that we need to have honest people in government.
What if you take a regular house, seal off all windows until only 2..then change those 2 windows with water tight windows. Do the same for the main door.. stock the house with bottles of fresh water, food rations, medicines and spare generator.. when it rains, close all doors, seal it, even if the water goes 2m high,the water cannot enter the house.
Too many Private modes of Transport.. poor drainage systems.. litter thrown into the Klang River.. Too few Tunnels.... Public should be happy that VIP PMs( present + forner ones) Mps are safe [ I am being sarcastic). The Rakyat is only needed at Buy Elections +GEs.. So easy to break promises of fixing Floods etc etc
Poor drainage system should study Singapore system. Singapore is surrounded by water n yet no major flood. Drainage system n infrastructures are bad in Malaysia. Nice highways but internal roads terrible. Wonder where the money goes
Poor planning is the key word. KL is situated on high ground, not next to the sea and not susceptible to high tides.
Poor planning is an extreme understatement. 😂. More like no planning and development greed.
WELL SAID my fellow Malaysian..... 😂GREED - the key word!
Maintenance culture is still unheard off.
Imagine we loosing a human in our sewers and drains with the authorities not knowing what goes where.
Than there is the leaf litter and plastic rubbish clogging road drains grills.
Don't we wonder where OUR TAX MONEY is going ....🙃
While driving in Kuala Lumpur, wherever it rains it tends to flood easily because of the nice side walkway pavements that easily raised up the water levels and couldn't drain fast enough into the drainage system. It will turn into a mini streams of water just in a matter of minutes after a heavy downpour. If it starts to rain heavily, it better to look for higher ground and park your car in the high rise building and wait for the storm to pass over. I won't risked driving through the floods with the rest of the stranded cars caught in the flooded areas. It will be very expensive towing your car to the garage repair shops and it will affects the selling values of your car. Lastly, while driving under heavy rain do avoid going fast downhill caused that's where the water logged areas will be the deepest pools of stagnated water formed. You can easily loose control of your car after hitting those water logged areas. I don't know whether I can claim any insurances if the car repair bills are high when it is caused by an act of God fine print policy. It not whether KL will survive but rather how will I survive in a situation like this?
Thanks for the update
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Malaysian always wait till it happens. There is no proactive action. How many people you know has water barriers ready for the houses and shops to prevent water into their premises.
When the infrastructure is built on less population density but later found to be hopelessly inadequate what do the authorities need to do? Approve more developments while lining their pockets? Hold the developers responsible for ensuring that the waterways are adequate when its the authorities role to do so? The first solution is to erase corruption within the pbt's then the rest will fall into place. The people responsible will do the necessary to ensure that infrastructure is more than enough to sustain development in future years. The experts can give all their solutions but the elephant in the room says that corruption needs to be curtailed for KL to fight mother nature. I feel for those affected periodically by rising waters but its a given that we need to have honest people in government.
They can built tunnels for transit, it can also be done for water to an underground reservoir.
What if you take a regular house, seal off all windows until only 2..then change those 2 windows with water tight windows. Do the same for the main door.. stock the house with bottles of fresh water, food rations, medicines and spare generator.. when it rains, close all doors, seal it, even if the water goes 2m high,the water cannot enter the house.
Can KL be flood proof ? 😂😂😂😂😂 So much for this Special Report.
We spend hundreds of millions on smart tunnel how can it flood??
Too many Private modes of Transport.. poor drainage systems.. litter thrown into the Klang River..
Too few Tunnels....
Public should be happy that VIP PMs( present + forner ones) Mps are safe [ I am being sarcastic). The Rakyat is only needed at Buy Elections +GEs.. So easy to break promises of fixing Floods etc etc
Overdevelopment and poor urban planning
KL pasti boleh survive!!!!!!
😂😅
Short answer: No, cannot survive given current government. Sila bersurai ya.
Poor drainage system should study Singapore system. Singapore is surrounded by water n yet no major flood. Drainage system n infrastructures are bad in Malaysia. Nice highways but internal roads terrible. Wonder where the money goes
Tun M dah bagi penyelesaian....pindah kapital ke Putrajaya
Capital bukan kat Putrajaya ke ?
Abih KL biar gitu je naik lumut ?
Another simple minded answer. Something that solves not a single issue.
You should work in the govt dept of planning, let’s see what you can do
@nashpal1 his statement shows how shallow the mindset is so most likely he IS in the civil service.
Full of garbage everywhere
Smart Tunnel and River of life ... billion dollar investment
Poor planning n too..many under construction
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just a minor inconvenience. Jakarta has been living on it