Kota Bharu is guilty Of Haphazard planning

The town of Kota Bharu, presently under the opposition rule is in dire need of some planning.The Pas ruled town either dont have a Town Planner or the town Planner is just not qualified to do the job.We have banks located at the traffic junction of wakaf siku and because of its location at the traffic lights there a daily traffic jam when patrons of bank double park to do their banking business.This is not an isolated case. At jalan Mahmood another two banks is strategically located at the traffic junction and during banking hours traffic jam is a daily occurrence .
The old Genearal Hospital located at a congested , smog filled area with insufficient parking space should have been relocated to the outskirt of town.Instead the hospital have been allowed to expand in its limited space , building new hospital wings and medical quarters for its staff.What is even more baffling is that a private hospital was allowed to be built nearby thus contributing to an overwhelming congested situation which already has its neighbour a four star hotel,the state Police Headquarters and the Wisma Persekutuan Building housing all the govt depts.Hospital cater for sick people and sick people need a clean healthy environment to convalescence and not a smog filled , congested environment in the heart of town.
Traffic congestion at the sultan Yahya Petra bridge is a daily occurrence.This congestion was already known some 10 years ago and to overcome this , some one suggested building a bridge at Pasir Mas.After completion of the bridge it was found that it had not ease the traffic congestion at Yahya Petra bridge.Instead of building a parallel bridge with the existing Yahya Petra bridge some one made the uncanny decision to build a bridge at Tendong at a cost of $100 million . Not surprisingly this also did not ease the traffic congestion.Today we are stuck with two under utilised bridge costing a few hundred million dollars and the congestion at the yahya Petra bridge remain to this day unresolve.

Let The Chinese build as many schools as they want.

Why is the govt so afraid of their own
shadow?Why should they feel so threaten as to deny MCA
request for more chinese schools to be build?Like
everthing else it will sort itself out. The basic law
of supply and demand will ensure that at some point
they will equate. If there is an over supply of
chinese schools they will close on their own accord
and if there is a shortage of these schools there will
be clamour to have more.The govt should have no role
to play in determining whether they should allow or
not the building of more chinese schools. The govt
should instead focus on the reason why chinese parents
are sending their children to vernacular schools.
Frankly, its not difficult to see why
chinese parents are reluctant to send their children
to National schools.National schools have lost their
purpose and identity.It no longer reflects the
aspirations and goals of what a national school should
be. Instead it has sadly been transformed into
religious schools with special emphasis on Islam
having a central role.Some schools have even gone as
far as imposing the mode of uniform the non-muslim
students have to wear.The education dept has not been
able to exert their authority on this matters and the
situation has been allowed to drift to a point of no
return.The chinese parents are frustrated at the
govt's indifference and to vent their frustration they

send their children to vernacular schools.
Racial integration cannot be attained by the
barrel of the gun neither can it be resolved by
imposing one's religious beliefs on another.Racial
integration can only be achieved by properly nurturing
the body and spirit of each other beliefs and to
render due respect to each other.The role of the govt
is not merely to authorise or deny chinese from
building more schools. It must examine its failure to
persuade chinese parents from sending their children
to National schools and its failure to foster an
integrated and unified malaysian society.