No vision upstairs and double vision on the road, that’s AES for you
(TMI) – Which is more important? Supporting your political adviser who’s been defending a couple of companies that lost RM100 million? Or holding faith with that person called the Malaysian, who voted you into office and expects you to protect his interests, always?
A simple poser for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. But a timely one, given the decision on Monday by the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) headed by him to allow the troubled Automated Enforcement System (AES) to continue, pending a complete study on it.
Question: what is a sign that government decision-making is ad hoc, hurried or just incompetent?
Answer: when it commissions a study on a project after the thing’s been running for 11 months.
And yet there was Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein declaring that a final decision on the AES – a privatised speed-camera system for traffic control – would be made only after legal and other issues are thrashed out.
After all the layers of unhappiness about this privatisation project have been peeled away, this has been the most disturbing fact surrounding the AES.
It has the stench of a rush job. No thinking. No planning. No asking how motorists would react to having two systems of traffic cameras, one profit-driven and the other by the police.
Read more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/no-vision-upstairs-and-double-vision-on-the-road-thats-aes-for-you
