LETTERS: Noise by motoring gangs in the early hours has been disturbing residents along the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Highway in Penang.
The din usually starts between 2am and 4am on Saturdays, involving 50 to 100 motorcyclists accompanied by motorists acting like their escorts. The noise they generate disturbs the peace of the people in the area.
Residents often awake to a "cat and mouse" game between these gangs and police cars with sirens blaring. The gangs will often speed off towards the Penang Bridge and Bayan Lepas.
The authorities appear to lack resources to end these disruptions.
They always pass the same stretch of the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Highway and a popular hypermarket road nearby.
The road around that hypermarket, which is full of residential apartments, has become a near circular racetrack. Imagine the din and noise they create.
Residents have endured the nuisance for quite some time. There have been moments of peace and quiet in between sporadic enforcement actions. But these moments are never permanent and the noise always returns after a while.
It is difficult to understand why these gangs come out at ungodly hours to make noise in residential areas.
The worst part of this is, they seem to be happily doing it. Maybe because they know they can get away with it.
I have long suggested enforcing curfews on the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Highway, specifically key checkpoints at Jelutong, Lebuh Tunku Kudin, the fork towards Bayan Lepas and Penang Bridge in front of the Light residences.
We need to return some semblance of civility and respect the "quiet hours" period.
E. YONG
Penang
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