The press used to investigate into a complaint and able to solve a lot of problems, but what's happening these days? I am familiar with Jalan Wangsa 2/6.
(1) The primary issue is not about hawkers operating without a license or cars are parked on both sides of the road. The primary issue is about two restaurants putting their tables, chairs and hawker stalls on both sides of the road, causing a traffic congestion and double parking in the area. Besides that, the drains are dirty.
(2) For over one year, the matter has been raised by the local councillor with the civil servants at Selayang Municipal Council, in particular the Licensing Department and the Enforcement Directorate.
(3) Instead of solving the real issue, the director of enforcement apparently tries to mislead both the Public Complaints Bureau (
http://malaysianwatchdog.blogspot.com/2010/08/civil-servants-civil-servants-where-is.html) and the public, with his explanation. The chief of Public Complaints Bureau himself had checked out the situation, but can he believe the explanation given by Azmi Ibrahim to the Malay Mail? I beg to differ, and here are my points:
(a) Why weren't the real culprit, i.e. the two restauranteurs taken to task for causing a problem to the area? Whenever I go to the grocery shops there to pick up my groceries, they tell me that things have gotten worse. These are genuine shopowners who operate their businesses within their premises, but others rent one restaurant and keep encroaching into more parking lots. Both restaurants appear to be competing with each other to take up more parking lots from each end.
(b) How many tables were given the permit to be placed in the parking lots compared to what are being placed there? Were the hawker stalls also allowed to operate from the roadside? My contention is that this service lane is already very narrow, with parking lots drawn up for both sides of the lane, and when you have tables and chairs on one side of the lane, and hawker stalls taking up parking lots on the other side of the lane, shoppers are left with no choice but to double park.
(c) During Ops Saman, "none of the offences were committed"? Yeah, so what? The problem persists, so where is the effectiveness of our civil servants? This question was posed to the Chief Secretary to the Government, being the head of the civil service in this country and till now, there is no answer and definitely no solution. There goes the empty slogan, "People first, performance....."
(d) Azmi can mislead the press with his explanation about Jalan Wangsa 2/6, similar with the dumbest politicians in our country who can talk nonsense without blinking an eye. Let me ask you a question: a service lane, with parking lots on both sides of the lane, how could it ever be a two-way street? I have never seen any cars going the opposite directions.
Now, the question is whether the Chief of Public Complaints Bureau would believe Azmi Ibrahim, since he had personally visited the site to see for himself the situation. In fact, he was the one who observed that a car wash operator was doing his business just near to the restaurant.
We have some of the funniest people in our civil service, don't we, Tan Sri Mohd Sidek?
Niamah!
Selayang Municipal Council has taken action
Friday, August 20th, 2010 09:21:00
PETER of Taman Wangsa Permai, Selayang, says he and fellow residents in Jalan Wangsa 2/6 are upset with the hawkers and restaurant owners who haphazardly place tables and chairs along the road, making access to their homes difficult.
"Due to their customers parking on both sides of the road, what is a two-lane stretch, has become a single lane. This has been going on for over a year," he says.
"The parking situation is made worse by residents from nearby Ixora Condominium who also leave their vehicles here."
PETER says he complained several times to the Selayang Municipal Council. "This problem is a serious matter for us residents and the council has not taken any action."
● Selayang Municipal Council enforcement and security director Azmi Ismail says: "On Aug 12, we conducted Ops Saman and compounded 42 cars parked on both sides of the road while one hawker was fined RM1,000 for conducting business without a licence.
"Hawkers and restaurant owners are allowed to place tables and chairs on the parking lots from 6pm to midnight daily. An offence is committed if they place them outside the stipulated areas.
"Most of the hawkers applied for the Permit Meja or Table Permit. For the first 10 tables, they have to pay RM30. During our Ops Saman, no such offence was committed."
Azmi says the council is looking at turning Jalan Wangsa 2/6 into a one-way street if the traffic problem persists.
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