FT Day rehearsal mess

The Kuala Lumpur City Hall should not have FT Day celebration rehearsals on a weekday, especially when it is unable to manage the city traffic.

This morning, several city road closures resulted in massive traffic jam during the early morning rush hour, causing many folks to be late to work.

Personally, a routine 40-minute round trip from Segambut to Brickfields in the morning rush hour today extended close to two hours.

All roads leading to the Dataran Merdeka were closed and the spill-over effect was felt from Selayang to the NEP from Puchong to Bangsar.

No city resident is interested in these FT Day celebrations any longer, I think.

The City Hall should just move all such celebrations to Putrajaya where the slower pace of life is best suited for parades and march-passes.

If City Hall still wants to do it in the city, perhaps rehearsals can be done on a Sunday, or later at night on a weekday.

But seriously, I think City Hall should not even contemplate FT Day celebrations until it has solved the various problems in the city – bad, congested and dirty roads, illegal parking lots and attendants, clogged drains, unkept buildings, unclean and illegal eateries. This list goes on actually.