Why is it some Malaysians keep so many cars and impede your parking space for it?
Not too long ago, it was confirmed that there are more registered cars on the road in Malaysia than there are people. Worrying, right? Well, sadly, this situation was foreshadowed years ago and has led to a very common problem in Malaysia today, and that is, owning multiple cars but having no place to park them
This only gets worse when one lives in a residential area with neighbours who own multiple cars and end up parking some of these cars in front of your house. Now not only is your own driveway blocked but you do not have anywhere to park your own car either. Talk about killing two birds with one stone, eh?
Moreover, one woman recounted her bad experience of just this as her neighbour parked 9 cars in front of her house. She took to reddit explaining how her neighbour persistently parked their 9 cars outside her house, despite them having their own driveway.
Writing on Reddit, she said, “My neighbours have nine cars total parked in the street. They always park two of those cars in front of my house and won’t move them the whole week. We have a regulation where you live that you can’t leave your car parked for more than 48 hours in the same spot.” Their reasoning for not using their own driveway? It “looks tacky.”
Eventually, the woman lost patience with her selfish neighbours and decided it was time to get her own back. And when she spotted some building work on a second unit at the back of their property, she took her opportunity and reported to the council about some potential “illegal residential building without permits” on the property.
On top of that, while the woman on reddit got her happy ending, this same problem is also happening everyday in Malaysia but no one seems to be doing anything about it. So what would the solution be? Well, the Government has already made it so that anyone parking even in front of their own house can be fined, so that’s a start.
This band-aid fix won’t work in the long run as the real issue is not that there are too many cars and not enough space, it is that the public transport system needs to be completely overhauled and made to actually function properly and on time more than just 1 percent of the year. Will the Government actually tackle this issue? Let’s see.
