LETTERS: Getting local authorities to help resolve an issue can be difficult.
When you need local government agencies to act, more often than not they would take the easy way out, if they ever act on it.
Their actions often do not resolve the problems. At best, it only provides temporary quick fixes.
Therefore, I wish to relate my experience with the local authority and a government agency.
A house in my residential area was rented out to a company which was in the sewage business. The rented house was meant to accommodate the company's foreign workers.
Everyday the company's large trucks weighing between 3 to 10 tonnes would frequent the area to pick up the workers. This was in spite of the fact that under local council laws heavy vehicles are not to be driven into residential areas.
In addition, the trucks had expired road tax and insurance. Movement of heavy vehicles is a hazard to the residents and furthermore most of them are senior citizens.
On many occasions the drivers would park the vehicles in the house compound. The stench from the sewage truck permeates the surrounding area.
I have highlighted this situation to the local authorities and even provided them with photos and CCTV recordings.
To my dismay, their response was that they had to catch them in the act of driving on residential roads. The same answer was provided by the state Road Transport Department.
I just wonder how they would ever catch the wrongdoers with this kind of lame excuses?
By virtue of the fact that the sewage truck is parked in the residential area is good enough proof that the trucks had been driven into residential areas.
I hope the authorities will promptly find a solution to this situation.
WONG SOO KAN
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the New Straits Times