I remember vividly the first time I saw the words “Massive Jam” lit up on the highway signboard. I was driving on the northbound CTE (in Singapore), on a rainy evening, quite a number of years ago. One tree fell onto the highway that forced all the vehicles to exit at Ang Mo Kio. Imagine four or five lanes of traffic squeezed into one exit. Not pretty. And since then, no jam felt as massive as that mother of all massive jam. At times I try my luck, enter the highway despite seeing the “Massive Jam” warning sign and it turns out to be just another heavy traffic condition. Nothing massive. At times, it is like yesterday morning, when I have to spend more than an hour covering perhaps 10 km on the CTE highway.
2 incidents in 2 different segments of the highway. I suppose it must be pretty major judging at the amount of debris on the road (no pool of blood, thank God). One time, I was inside a lift and one foreigner said to another foreigner after showing him a – I suppose – gruesome image of an accident using his phone, “I wonder why such a small island can have so many road accidents.”
I too wonder why.