LED there be light

The last three years 小伙子's mind has been preoccupied by a "green thinking". Oftenly he thinks about how to cut power consumption at home in order to save money as well as to save the environment. Also, he also has plans for generating his own electric power.

His visit to Sabah last time has made 小伙子 even more determine to introduce eco-friendly measurements in order to save to cut energy consumption and to save the environment of Sabah better.

One thing that 小伙子 noticed about the city of KK is the poor lighting of the streets. There are indeed street lights but they are not enough to lit up the whole area. For dark places may give one a sense of insecurity.

小伙子's recommendations for Sabah are the following:
- to introduce LEDs to street lighting (it gives brighter and more light at the same amount of energy consumption or even lower)
- to exploit solar power at a larger scale in order to generate electric power (since 小伙子 thinks it is a waste to leave the abundant sunlight unused)
- to replace polluting rundown public buses by environmental friendly advanced diesel buses
- to redesign the city of KK

小伙子 dreams of a land lit up by myriad powerful LED lights, which bright up the city at night. Since LEDs are more energy saving and they produce more light, people will feel more at ease and can walk with clear sight on the street, and they will feel more secure.

Sun light can produce the power needed by those LED lights, so there will be no extra consumption of fossile fuel.

A new vision is needed for KK and in fact for the whole of Sabah. How about the theme: Parkland Sabah (following the example of: Garden City Singapore)

A new vision is required to redesign KK. A tourist friendly city that is safe, secure and pedestrian friendly. A city gearing toward tourist industry and eco-friendly infrastructure by providing more attractive things than only serving seafood or climbing Mount Kinabalu.

More and improved pedestrian paths, car-free zone in city center, more and brighter street lights, more public transports with interchange stops, redesigning the pedestrian waterfront, more recognizable neon lights along the waterfront (the trick of using LED comes in!)

In order to achieve these Sabah must hire consultants from abroad. If it lacks the know-how, well then, just buy it by recruiting foreign consultants, skilled city planners from Hong Kong for instance. Just do something and give it a start!

A change of thinking: less emphasis on food but more emphasis on infrastructure and future in stead. Since like other parts of M'sia food is a way of life, and it seems that most energy and interests are spent on having food, different kind of (hawker) food and having food at a different place each time...

The question is: will anyone in Sabah listen to 小伙子's ideas? Or, are there enough public funds to purchase LED street lighting which comes at a considerable price? Are people there willing to make financial sacrifices to pay higher taxes for this aim, and to install solar panels at home? Since those are long term investments which takes many years to break even. Is there a political will for change?