www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Each morning when I get to work, I will turn into the F1 circuit via Nicoll Highway. It didn't make me feel like a F1 driver because the roads were normal and of course my car.  However, as the impending event on the global calendar unfolds a few weeks from the date, you can see the drama building up. Fences erected, crash barriers placed, you begin to see the actual circuit.  I was prepared to accept some inconvenience as there will be traffic jams each morning even when I left for work earlier due to road diversions. However, I could not comprehend why the LTA could not waive ERP charges or at least reduced them to a standard charge simply because we ended up having to pay when we usually don't or having to pay a dollar became two or three dollars. Having to pay more for the inconvenience caused to us is unheard of! On top of this, we even have to pay to get home everyday as there are no routes left to us as an option without having to pay ERP charges even when...

I have been driving around so frequently and yet in the past so many years, have completely avoided being caught in any accident and this included a couple of near misses of others hitting me. I am a model driver. The highway is a dangerous place and I can't figure out why people when getting into the KPE tunnel has to suddenly switch lane at the point where the roads are on a down slope. Even golfers know that playing down slope can be tricky. In those few occasions of misses, I heard screeching of tyres followed by a few bangs and when I looked from my rear view mirror, I saw the skirmishes behind with me remaining unaffected. People were switching lanes needlessly. They go to the far right lane meant for overtaking only and the moment they got there they slowed down. Many times I left home early and yet got caught in a jam because of such accidents at the tunnel expressway. This led me to assess that the skills and attitude of our modern day drivers are really quite poor.  ...