Tangkak-Segamat highway

The Government has allocated RM20mil to upgrade the Tangkak-Segamat highway. Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said works on the 75km road would be carried out in phases beginning early next year. He said they were working on the infrastructure plan for the project to straighten and widen the road. “We hope to finish it in three years,” he said...The Star

It is hard to accept and to comprehend some of the news filtering through the papers today especially on promises that are being made, broken, made, broken, made... like an old record player. The people of Segamat have been promised a new highway, brand new one, to join up the Segamat - Kuantan - Tangkak towns so that there will be easy access for all the millions (ok, thousands) of people staying along these corridors. Since time memorial, the local residents have been lamenting on when the government should be commencing on this wonderful plan since a proposed alignment had already been drawn.

As usual, the original proposal was scrapped for other more urgent requirements (maybe more white elephants), and a new proposal was suggested as to widen the existing trunk roads. At the last general election, this proposal was resounded loud and clear to all the voters that the government are now serious about this job.

But again, as you can imagine, the proposal was dropped after the election and totally missing from the Ninth Malaysian Plan (9MP) completely. What a huge disappointment!

A few days ago, the Johor government again dropped the same "carrot stick" before the people of Segamat, and guess what, nobody cares. Could this be another ploy since the next general election now seems imminent. The faith-in-the-government element is missing, and unless the people see the tarmac and feel the highway with their Dunlop tyres, they do not give a d**n.

In my opinion, the general public are fed-up of empty promises. They want the facts and the truth, so that their loyalty can remain.

How would you react to a government that gives so many promises?
Does the government know that the people actually do take note of these promises?