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Picture this: you’re in your car, crawling along a highway, inching forward at a snail’s pace, only to realise there’s a JPJ roadblock slowing everyone to a halt up ahead. You’re definitely not alone, and Transport Minister Anthony Loke knows it.
Speaking at a recent press conference, Loke made a clear case for retiring physical roadblocks that choke up traffic and replacing them with something far more efficient: automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology.
Roadblocks create bottlenecks that waste precious time and resources
According to Loke, there’s just one problem with roadblocks. They’re inefficient. Stopping vehicles en masse creates narrow bottlenecks that waste a lot of time, and end up testing drivers’ patience,…