Life flow

There are events in our daily life which is changing all the time.  The maintenance of the Penang Bridge is one of the happening in many people's life, Rather the announcement changes the lives of many people staying in the Penang Island and the mainland especially for Penang Island people working in the main land or vice versa.

The announcement of the Penang Bridge authority that the bridge will be under repair for six months and caused a certain kind of repulsion in the heart of its local people.  There will be a jam which could change the daily working life of the people working on the island or the main land.  How long would it take is the next big question ? 

Now it is  in the third week and there are times that the traffic took 10 to 15 minutes to cross the bridge if the repair or closure of the bridge lanes is mild and not at the working hours.  But, people rushing across the straits for work will depends on their luck of the day whether there is any major repairs or not.  If the authorities closed one lane for their work on each side ,then the traffic will take two hours at the most to cross the bridge from both sides. If it rains and on a long weekend holidays, the jam could be much worse and longer as cars will be moving into Penang Island and whatever goes into the island , it has to come out from the island. This makes the traffic jam even worst.

Life will not be easy for the next 6 months of repair and sometimes, we could reach our office too early and at other times, we will be able to reach our workplace late.  It depends on the level of the repair on the bridge.

There is a suggestion to use the ferry or the 2nd bridge but it is never the same as these access is too limited or way apart form each other.

Life will be more difficult before it can get safer but for some , it will not be tolerable and there could be a switching of places for those staying in Prai to move over Penang Island if they work on the island and the same will happen for those staying on the island to move to Prai.  It is may force a change of job or a change in their residence.

Any how ,  a good luck to all these guys.

Rgds