Tugas Mata Kuliah Bahasa Inggris - Soekarno Hatta’s Crossroad, Safe for the Community or Not? (Essay)

Nama : Mohammad Iskandar Zulkarnain

NIM : 145060600111004

Mata Kuliah : Bahasa Inggris - Essay

Topic               : The safety in Soekarno Hatta’s Crossroad

Tittle                : Soekarno Hatta’s Crossroad, Safe for the Community or Not?

OUTLINE

Introduction :

-          The importances of the road

-          The effect of the unsafe on the road

Body :

-          The importances of Soekarno Hatta’s crossroad

-          The reason why the crossroad is not safe

-          The condition of the crossroad

-          The road users habit

Conclusion :

-          The conclusion that Soekarno Hatta’s street is not safe

-          Suggestion to repair the problem

ESSAY

Soekarno Hatta’s Crossroad, Safe for the Community or Not?

In this era, roads are one of the most important structures in the world. People need to go to places as fast as they can, but without forgetting their own safety. What if there are no roads in the world? Would we go on with our lives as usual? It would be great if we could fly all over the world by ourselves, but we couldn’t, right? We all know what the answer is.

The problem is, there are roads everywhere, but not many people are aware of its safety. This safety is very important. Unsafe roads have donated many victims, both victims of minor injuries or casualties and victims of serious injuries and even death, where most of whom are still in the productive age. Sometimes roads can very dangerous, even more so than age, because it can take your life faster.

Leaving that aside, roads have many facilities that must be well-combined with each other so that they can help people to keep their lives. Despite that, we still find poor combining of the facilities everywhere. So, let’s discuss if the crossroad on Soekarno Hatta’s street in Malang City is safe or not.

Before we discuss about the problem that occured on Soekarno Hatta’s crossroad, we need to know why the crossroad is very important. On one side of the crossroad is the Soekarno Hatta bridge. The bridge connects the south side of the city over the river Brantas. The area contained several universities such as Brawijaya University, UIN Malang, State University of Malang, and so on, with the north side of the region of Soekarno Hatta’s street itself, where there are also plenty of places to stay for the students. In addition, according to the Regional Regulation No. 4 Malang 2011, the status of the Soekarno Hatta road is a 'provincial road' along the Ahmad Yani’s street, Borobudur’s street, MT. Haryono’s street and Tlogomas’s street. So it makes the Soekarno Hatta crossroad crowded every day.

Now the condition is that the crossroad is not safe. There are two main cause that triggered this problem. The first is the poor quality of the facility, and the second is the people themselves.

One reason is the public facilities. Indeed, the existing pavement on the road around this crossroad has been using asphalt as its material, but it's not equipped with barrier markers to make room for other road users, especially for crossing pedestrians. This eventually led to a lot of vehicles stopping ahead of red light and not giving space for pedestrians. It looks like a trivial thing, but it becomes a dangerous thing because if there's one person who violates the rules, they can harm themselves, or even harm another person.

Other facilities that are also dangerous around this crossroad is the Soekarno Hatta bridge's east side. The bridge that has been built since 1988 hasn't been quite feasible to be used again and needs some renovation. Moreover, the presence of traffic signs which are directly related to the crossroad, results in vehicles heading south stopping at the top of the bridge when the lights on the traffic light is red. This condition is not in accordance with the rules of public works minister of the Republic of Indonesia, which explains that at the time of the operation of the road, vehicles are prohibited from stopping on the bridge. In addition, the bridge is also still using steel ropes, but in terms of aesthetics, steel rope bridges in the urban area can reduce the beauty of the scenery for the community.

The next major issue that caused the insecurity of the area around the crossroad Soekarno Hatta is the unawareness of the importance of the safety of road users. Every morning, afternoon, and night, we often found that drivers on the side of the crossroad is still running the vehicle on track despite the fact that the traffic light is still on red. They assume that they are still able to run the vehicle even though the light is red by getting way closer to the vehicle in front of them, where the vehicles located in front are already running when the lights at traffic lights is still showing green color. This might be just a little problem when it's only done by one person, but in reality, this kind of offense is always done by more than one person. As a result, the vehicle from the other side of the crossroad had to wait for a vehicle in violation even though the lights on the track has been changed to green.

Automatically, these circumstances cause congestion on this road. There have even been a few times where these violations result in accidents due to the ignorance of the drivers who are driving at high speed.

The government has actually provided a solution to the two main problems, namely by means of deploying the authorities to regulate the traffic conditions at the Soekarno Hatta crossroad, but it was not enough to provide a deterrent to the motorists. This is proven by the presence of riders who often abuse what have been discussed above.

In conclusion, the recent condition of Soekarno Hatta’s street is not safe. Then for suggestion, it is not only that the government should deploy police officers to deal with this issue in place, but they should also do a  socialization where they briefed the citizens on the importance of safety in a variety of existing facilities in the city of Malang, in the means of education and also in the terminal. So that the apparatus takes action not only for a short period of time, but also eradicate the roots of the problem.