(12-12-2024, 06:02 AM)cheekopekman Wrote: Every Friday you can see many vehicles parked illegally on double yellow lines outside the mosques lah! Traffic Police should saman ALL of them lah!
That's right - Muslims are allowed to break the law on Friday, courtesy of LTA. They can set their minds at ease as they head for their mosques for worship after parking illegally on the road outside their place of worship.
Mindful of insufficient parking in the general vicinity of the mosques to cater for large numbers of worshippers coming by their own vehicles, LTA has, as a gesture of goodwill, allowed the rule not to be followed for a brief period of time, 'turning a blind eye' to illegally-parked cars, trucks, motorcycles and motor scooters on the street, and it's free parking!
A long line of parked cars is a common sight outside schools too. Motorists, parked on roads marked by double-yellow lines or a continuous white line, wait in line to pick their kids up after school, safe in the knowledge that they won't be ticketed.
In a certain country, I'd often come across cars double-parking on the streets outside schools, creating a bottle neck on the third, outermost lane. Traffic was often chaotic for as long as one hour before class was dismissed, even with traffic wardens directing traffic.
Over here, the cars move along in an orderly fashion on a single lane, creating minimal disruption to traffic flow. As demonstrated, rules can be broken without penalty in exceptional circumstances, to the benefit of certain drivers. It's a happy compromise of a sort between the needs of state and motorists.
Well, if you are all for the rules to be obeyed to the letter and be stringently enforced at all times, then it may inconvenience some drivers and may cause extraordinary despair. In extreme cases, it can even end in murder. Remember that compromise is an inevitable part of life.