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

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.  ...

An overdue and welcome relief for those living in the North-East whose only routing mode has been the overused and overcharged CTE. Things came to a head when the Riverline ERP were started rendering many helpless where every which way is to pay. Now N-E residents can have a choice to use the KPE instead of the usual CTE even if some ERP charges kicks in as compared to the CTE where despite paying you still get the blues (jam).  This morning I headed for the KPE from Airport Road entering the tunnel at 7.41 emerging unscathed at ECP exit having to pay $1.50 for ERP in just 5 minutes despite speed limit at 70 kph. My main question is why is it called the KPE? Why not the PIG - Punggol Intregrated Getstraighthome expressway. ERP gantries are one too many and have become an eyesore to our beautiful garden city landscape. The so many gantries are there that you need not be warned anymore but just a small sign would do and just be informed so put a voice in the In-Vehilce Unit to ann...