IT was an amusing, and perhaps rare, occurrence. Not because Vice President Hamzah Haz's motorcade used the busway lane, but because the vice president's motorcade stopped for a red light.

Last Wednesday afternoon, at the end of a cabinet meeting at the State Palace, Vice President Hamzah Haz took his leave and, as required by the protocol department, was escorted by the Presidential Security Detail. The motorcade set off with sirens wailing