3 Jun 2012

Emergency lane is for emergency vehicles

That is as possibly plain as it can get. 
I'm very sure there is no beacon on the roof of your souped up Vios. Did your Gallardo sport the blue and yellow police decals? Or are you authorized to stick out one of those magnetic base sirens as Hutch would on his Gran Torino? 
If your answers were Yes, No and No to the above, then you are not supposed to be driving on the emergency lane. And while I'm at it, take note that it is also an offense to pretend to be a policeman or to be more apt in this case, a police patrol car. Or any emergency vehicle at all for that matter. And why do you like to place the PDRM sticker on your car? Is that even legal? Where did you buy it? Did you hope to scare people off? The thought makes me sick. 
Even if you are a real cop, is there a need to tell the other drivers that you are one? Are we supposed to yield when you cut onto our lane? I'm confident that there is no policy to state that a copper needs to have that sticker on his or her ride.  
The evening rush hour after the NKVE toll plaza northbound is usually a slow crawl as cars go into a bottleneck, trying to get to dinner on time. One day while driving home from work on the said stretch, I saw cars going very fast on the very lane they shouldn't get on to. 
These were no ordinary cars too. There was a Bentley, a Merc E-class (current W212 model), a Q7 and a string of go-fast MyVis and Wajas, not necessarily in that order. Some had their hazard lights on too. It is just not cool to switch those lights on when you are already doing something illegal. OK, maybe there are the occasional genuine cases where you need to get to the hospital on a double quick-time but those cars I saw were definitely just being trigger happy with the accelerator pedal. I just knew. 
It is appalling to see drivers (I mean both chauffeur and the owner) of luxury cars behave as though they own the road. They've got to have a bit of class and manners when parading around in flash cars. I believe in that. Shame on you.
Just for the record, emergency lane is for emergency vehicles to get to emergency sites and hospitals as fast and safe as they could. Now, you don't want me to go to cars who tailgate ambulance do you?

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