My Regional Center, Pulau Pinang

My Regional Center, Pulau Pinang

My Regional Center, Pulau Pinang is located within the main campus of ‘Universiti Sains Malaysia’ (USM). It is a ‘huge place’ but always congested specifically traffic jam during intensive weeks. Parking space was limited for student. The provided transportation via the main campus from any hostel within or outside the campus is slow service. The Pulau Pinang regional center is become overcrowded during intensive weeks and the same problem repeating itself time after time.

Such a big place but no one is controlling the traffic during intensive week. All the security guards station only at the post of entry and no one dare to play their role during traffic. Security guards is no where to be seen patrolling the area when trouble occur. Lack of security guards to assist a large number of students during peak time. It is always a problem when student attending the intensive weeks where location of lectures is congested and crowded.

Student would find it hard to park their own vehicle because of the limited parking space. The over crowded student mostly used their own vehicles to move around within the campus and causing chaos situation when it related to parking time. The location of the lectures always plays a big role as everybody tends to park as near as they can to the location. The irresponsibility motorcyclist is taking the car parking space which added more woes to the problem. Therefore, parking space is a big headache during intensive weeks.

The alternative transportation was the bus and student seldom use it as it is poor in service. Sometime it is not practical just to bring a number of student to some location which is why the driver always wanted to fill in at least three quarter of the bus capacity to fully utilize the facility provided by the university. At some other time, the bus just arrived and will not moving to its destination until the other bus arrive. The time taken to the location intended is slightly slow as compared if the student walk on foot. It is clear that the transportation is very poor in service.

As we can see, my regional center, Pulau Pinang is very congested during intensive weeks. It is a big place but not fully utillized. Parking space is still the main problem. The alternative transportation is not helping to solve the matter. Someone or somebody need to be looking in this matter seriously in order to solve the problem before it getting worst.

JUE 200 USM