The Mentally-Blind Motorist Syndrome

Recently, the Ipoh City Council went about the whole of Ipoh Garden and its surrounding areas, repainting road markers, lines, and parking lots. That's utterly commendable - syabas! Job long overdue, but still most welcome.

Having said that, the folks around Ipoh Garden have pretty much adapted to a "no-lines-so-taroh-onli-who-cares" mentality. Although the demarcation lines are highly visible now, motorists cannot "see" them anymore after over 10 years of driving around purely by experience around the area (where's the parking lot, stay off that road shoulder cos ada lobang, fire hydrant tarak pakai one so park onli nobody kacau one, etc.) - and here's the result:

 



Yeah - cyclists included. These are just 2 of the dozens of Mentally-Blind Motorist Syndrome (MBMS) cases I've seen rearing its ugly head day-in, day-out in Ipoh Garden. If I am to photograph every single MBMS case, I would end up with thousands by the year end :???:

Please la, people ... go to the eye clinic, take Panadol, whatever - cure yourself of MBMS before it gets worse. Eventually the sickness will occur everywhere else you go with your car/bicycle, and then you complain when the city council / traffic police saman you :( How la like dat ...

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