There are a number of people from Tropicana has to go the long way round, about double the distance (i checked on google map from 2.5 km to now 5.6 km from riana green to Up Town using 2 routes) because of the BU residence are inconvenienced by the traffic jams few peak hours during weekdays.

I have been using this road, Jln Tanjung for the past few years now and during peak hours it took me 15-20 minutes just to pass from Riana Green to the Sprint highway. It is not so bad during non peak hours. And do guess you would complain during these times as well.

If i do not use this road, it will take me only 5-7 minutes via the tunnel at Persiaran Tropicana and Jalan Tropicana Selatan 1 to get into NKVE as there are no long traffic light to wait for.

But it is a totally different story if i need to get onto the Sprint highway. The direction to this road is really jammed packed and the traffic lights and it takes me up to half an hour from Riana Green to Uptown during peak hours, and about 15 minutes during non peak hours, due to the long wait at Lebuh Bandar Utama.

Closing the road is not the best way to cause these inconveniences to all Tropicana residences. There are other users from Kota Damansara which I’d say sums up most of the traffic during peak hours, as I usually see the jam would start from Persiaran Damansara Indah…

I am also angered by this issue.

We should know that the public road belongs to the public and what’s the use we pay the road taxes. Anyway I will support you to reopen that Ara Damansara road.

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/11/27/central/5163579&sec=central

I fully understand what the writer is trying to say. A few years ago i was one of the residents in Ara Damansara and our joy of living in the new neighbourhood was dampened, no thanks to Tropicana’s residents. Because of them, we had to suffer massive jams on LDP on a daily basis. Tropicana folks couldn’t care less – they just said “We just have to live with it.”

So I say to them now – “It’s time you have a taste of your own medicine. What goes around comes around, folks. I’m not sorry that your daily commute has to be inconvenienced now. It’s just a road closure. You didn’t think twice about closing other people’s roads to CONVENIENT yourself. So now that the inevitable has come to bite your ass, i guess what BU & Ara Damansara residents are saying is, “You’ll just have to live with it!”

Residents are the one to suffer and not developers. Now, situation is complicated and how long we have to suffer for this road closure?