YOURSAY | 'Do you really expect us to believe that the average Joe on the road is going to agree to a price hike?'

Public backs hike in parking rate, says mayor

GE14Now!: Do you really expect us to believe that the average Joe on the road is going to agree to a price hike? Just like we all supposedly supported the Goods and Services Tax (GST), right?

We have a lot of Hillary Clintons in this country too - all lying through their teeth and expecting us to buy into their lies wholesale.

Kuala Lumpur mayor Mhd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz, we have news for you - the average Joe's level of intelligence has risen and we can smell a lie when one is offered. Your nose appears to be lengthening as well, Mr Mayor.

Southpaw: Of course, in this country, we rakyat only want things that are expensive and wish to pay more instead of less, for if we pay less in our purchases we will be hauled up to court.

Anonymous 1595491436431853: Yes, many people are happy and support the parking fee hike. The mayor probably refers to those who have benefited from the hike, as it's more income for them.

And only a retarded brain thinks that double parking can be solved by a parking rate hike. If he enforces the law well, even if there was free parking there would be no double parking issue.

Chipmunk: Who in their right mind would agree with a parking fee hike unless he owns and manages the parking lot? Can you show the rakyat your statistics that show that the public agrees to this hike?

Please do not insult our intelligence unless you too have a share in this matter (remember the recent Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) arrests of your staff)?

Mosquitobrain: Mr Mayor, do not pass the buck to the taxpayers. Remove all dead wood and the corrupt from your council. And support your claims with facts and figures.

Anonymous_3f6d: What bull, Mr Mayor - we can also say we have conducted a survey and all were against this parking fee hike. Talk is cheap and so are lies.

Anonymous #13114320: I don't know whom you are trying to fool - probably yourself. Show us where and how many residents were surveyed. I just went to Bangsar yesterday and the problem was not rates, but you have a serious lack of parking space. Yet you claim things have

improved.

Tpn: Mayor, just go and ask people working in Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) and Bangsar and you will get a 100 percent disapproval.

Mamak Mee: Since when did the chairmen of a few associations in Bangsar and Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) become the voice of KL residents? How ridiculous.

Falcon: Seriously? Bangsar and Taman Tun Dr Ismail are the barometers for the DBKL parking fee hike? I cannot understand why the nation's appointed top civil servants are obsessed with exposing their stupidity for the world at large to see.

Korkor: Over to you Bangsar and Taman Tun Dr Ismail residents. You guys represent the whole of Kuala Lumpur, huh? Well you don't represent us in other parts of KL, and Mr Mayor, please don't try to hoodwink us.

JD Lovrenciear: Mayor, Bangsar and TTDI residents may be happy because their areas are not congested any more, and so they can have more space to themselves. So they are purportedly happy with the increased parking rates.

The ordinary working class who work outside of Bangsar and TTDI and/or have to do household errands and send and fetch their children to and from school, as well as the business community, would have a totally different view of the problem caused by the new rates.

So, this has nothing to do with pro-BN or pro-opposition affiliations. Please do not turn this into a seemingly anti-government issue fuelled by the opposition.

Ozzie Jo: What "other side" are you referring to, Mr Mayor? Shouldn't your role, regardless of which administration appointed you, be apolitical? Or your job is only to look after the "your side" of the political divide?

Think about what you are saying and please try to engage your brain before you engage your mouth.

Anakraja: Mayor Mhd Amin, build more multistorey carparks. Public transport offers very bad service. By building multistorey parks at all KTM and LRT stations, it will help encourage use of the trains.

Raising car park charges only shows that DBKL has little money to spare. By the way, raising car park rates it is a burden to ALL car users. DBKL must come up with a free bus service that must cover the whole of Kuala Lumpur.

Then all will be happy with you.

Basically: On the contrary, mayor, the residents are angry with DBKL because they have to pay inflated city rates to park in their own backyard. Bangsar has become congested because of DBKL's poor policies, planning and rampant approval of commercial property without regard for the area's facilities.

And worse, we can see that Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has done absolutely nothing to provide more parking facilities such as multistorey car parks, even when there was empty land. What has happened over the years? Empty DBKL land has been turned into commercial areas instead, bringing in even more traffic - the very reason why our areas are so congested.

So mayor, do come down yourself and do the survey personally, but wear a face mask to prevent the public's spittle from hitting your face.

Jonah 2: They should approve more Uber drivers or similar concepts.... then no one will drive to the city. Just do away with taxis except for bus stops and airports. If you sit down and calculate properly, Uber charges are far cheaper than parking charges plus petrol, car repayment, car maintenance, tolls, fines and valet parking.

When driverless electric cars hit the road, it will be even cheaper. The age of the car is dead.

The Analyser: This man has been sniffing glue again. Does he realise he is talking about tight-fisted Malaysians who would never gleefully accept an increase in the cost of anything?

Cogito Ergo Sum: Mr Mayor, in an economy that is dying and bereft of steady income, you are saying people want more taxes? I think the time has come for the lot of semi-literate and out of touch civil sycophants be removed from office.

Who do you serve? The public or the crooked system that installed you? It is better you do not justify the rate hike with patronising remarks.

I Wonder?: Which idiot appointed this clown to be the mayor?

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