Kuala Lampur, Jan. 27 -- So it's Chinese New Year season again.

Millions of families look forward to reuniting to usher in another year of good luck.

However, with the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM)'s expectations of 2.6 million vehicles per day plying the highways, ushering in the New Year of the Snake may feel like a slow crawl instead.

As everyone knows, during non-festive periods, driving from KL to Ipoh takes about two hours; during CNY it could feel like crossing two time zones.

And this final week of January every inter-state road could look as if a million cars just decided to park themselves there like a massive sleeping python.

Many years ago, there was a photo of a guy defecating on the Singapore-Johor causeway - well, ...