The most recent came at an incongruous time which created some wisecracks in its wake. Sunday’s flash flood hit the city when traffic was already passing through the billion ringgit SMART Tunnel (Storm water management and road tunnel project). It didn’t have a ‘tidal flow’ system yet.
The one thing that went through many people’s mind was why wasn’t the SMART utilised? In fact, motorists who used the tunnel to get home on Sunday found themselves stuck in a bumper-to-bumper crawl after exiting the tunnel to Sungei Besi.
Motorists found their Sunday drive through KL a nightmare. Some who parked their cars for a Sunday outing were pulling at their hair upon seeing their vehicles submerged or floating like boats.
It seem like the SMART flood tunnel is not designed to handle and prevent all floods. A chance viewing of the Discovery Channel programme on the Smart tunnel gave me a dose of national pride that we had finally outwitted nature for a flood-free KL.
Well, Mother Nature had the last laugh on Sunday.
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