Open Letter to YB Hannah Yeoh

Dear YB Hannah,

Firstly, congratulations! And, it looks like the mainstream papers also like you! The Star featured you today, despite their screaming front-page story that did not make the DAP look so good!

But, back to the main purpose of this letter. I know you said that your priority would be to help the poor in the Subang Jaya state constituency. I totally support that and I think many of your constituents, would, too. However, having lived in Subang Jaya for the past 20 years, there are a number of things that need to be addressed. Let me list them down here and leave it to you to include them in your list of priorities:

1. Traffic: This is our major headache! Subang Jaya needs another exit to the Federal Highway -- not a flyover over it or through Sunway. But one to the Federal Highway near perhaps the SJMC. This will cut the number of cars from USJ using the sole exit at the former KFC. To facilitate this movement of traffic from USJ, it is also necessary to expand the Federal Highway lanes between the clock tower at Subang and Sungei Way.
2. Public Transport: This is another problem. Public transport needs to be beefed up so that the service is frequent and regular. If the LRT is going to be extended through Subang Jaya to USJ, there is a great need to establish an efficient and fast feeder bus service so that the LRT stations are not crowded with cars.
3. Stall licences: Issue more licences so that Subang Jayans can earn an honest living in Subang Jaya. Issue licences based on need rather than race. Allocate places for stall owners to operate legally without being harassed by authorities. But, when issuing stall licences, please make sure that they are not located in places where they obstruct traffic flow.
4. Security: Petty and snatch thefts are frequent occurrences here. At the risk of sounding racist, (but, in fact, I am not!) this is mainly because of the big immigrant population in the cheaper flats and apartments available in USJ which are conveniently located close to commercial centres (Please feel free to correct me!). Some kind of zoning needs to be done so that commercial centres are placed comfortably at a distance from residential areas. And, of course, we need better policing!
5. Unwanted mail: There is an unnecessary amount of junk mail stuffed in our mailboxes. I sugest that some law be introduced to stop people from cramming unwanted mail into our mailboxes!
6. RATS! This is a problem no one wants to see here! But the area, especially the drains and gutters are teeming with these creatures and their close relatives, the chipmunks! City and town councils should regularly fumigate these places so that this menace is wiped out of the face of the earth!
7. The last problem is a very, very small issue but a nagging one! Garbage collectors clean out garbage bins but they do not latch back the doors of the garbage chambers! This is an easily solved problem: Just tell them to latch back the doors!

That is all! I hope YB will do something about these frustrating aspects of living in the Subang Jaya constituency. If these issues are resolved, I think, the Subang Jaya-USJ area will be a model town for all Malaysians!

Who knows? Other towns will follow suit and before long all of Malaysia will become a progressive, safe and clean place to live in!

Good Luck!