Sleeping ITIS

According to ITIS website (which sometimes goes offline when you most needed it), Integrated Transport Information System (ITIS) is a comprehensive traffic information system developed for City Hall Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) to monitor traffic flow and analyse the data on road conditions in the Klang Valley to provide useful traffic information to road users.

According to theStar dated 1 Apr 2006 under 'Putting public transport system on the right track' article, ITIS was built on the cost of RM365million under 8th Malaysia Plan.

Now, that's a lot of money!

What really pisses me off, despite the HUGE expenditure, on the weekday afternoon where traffic was really bad and you needed information as where does the source of this traffic jam was (so that you can think of alternative routes instead of sitting like a duck in the car), the ITIS functioning electrical board was EMPTY!

Now, isn't it stupid to build a RM365million infrastructure that doesn't serve information that you or motorist needed? ITIS prides itself to be 'comprehensive traffic information to provide useful traffic information to road users'. Yeah, right. Someone is obviously sleeping on the job. (and you'll know where this culture started? haha, no prize for that answer!)

This picture was taken at a 5-lane Federal Highway near Wisma Radio Angkasapuri.