COMMENT | 820,000 new cars were added to Malaysian roads last year - no wonder traffic congestion keeps getting worse. Will people have to wake up at 4am to beat the jams?

How many new tolled roads can we build? Will we have ever more highways flying past our homes, belching noise, dust, and noxious fumes? 

Our fixation with cars doesn’t look sustainable. Yet sadly, only 25 percent of commuters in the Klang Valley use public transport, despite the many billions spent on three LRT and two MRT lines.

This is far below the 67 percent rate in Singapore and 72 percent in Tokyo.

It’s often repeated that...