KL-PUTRAJAYA ELEVATED HIGHWAY 2 METRES AWAY FROM RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

AUTHORITIES BLUNDER RESULTED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ELEVATED
HIGHWAY JUST 2 METRES FROM HOMES.
MORE THAN 200 HOUSES AND 1000 RESIDENTS SAFETY AND LIVELIHOOD AFFECTED

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HELP US STOP THIS MENACE IN SRI PETALING RESIDENTIAL AREA

More than 200 families and 1000 residents along Jalan 2/149, Bandar Baru Sri Petaling are directly affected by the Project. We are very much concerned as the PROJECT had already started ignoring all the issues with respect to safety and environmental impacts the residents has raised.

Even though you may not be affected by this project, please raise your voice and help us to prevent our livelihood being destroyed and our health and safety being threatened. We are deeply saddened by how decisions are made by the relevant authorities while ignoring the Rakyat's plight. Some of the residents have bought what they believed to be 'homes' and chances are it will be the only home that they will ever be able to purchase. Imagine how you would feel as a taxpayer where your own money contributed to the Government is used to destroy your only home!
Demonstration @ Parliament 19 Sept 2005

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19 Oct 05 - Meeting with Minister of Works, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu at his office.

20 Sept 05 - Minister blames resident for cracks in houses. "Lets go back to using bullock carts" - Samy Vellu

24 Sept 05 - Resident's press conference to explain the incorrect accusations by the Minister

1997 - Resident's letter urging the Govt to take precaution while it is still possible way back in 1997

25 Sept 05 - Possible cause of crack at the houses

25 Sept 05 - Official reply from Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia after long wait

Demonstration on 19 Sept at Parliament of Malaysia

28 Sept 05 - Site visit by Datuk Shahrir, Chairman of Backbenchers Club and recommendation to DBKL to issue stop work temporarily order to take care of residents safety of house collapse"


Background Information

The KL-Putrajaya highway Project with 26KM length, from Kampung Pandan roundabout to Putrajaya. The concession was signed on 22 October 1997.

Divided into several construction packages, package 5 of this Project starts from Salak South Garden, pass through an established residential area, i.e. Bandar Baru Sri Petaling and end at Bukit Jalil. The stretch in Bandar Baru Sri Petaling with approximately 1.25KM will be an elevated structure to be built on the existing road, Jalan 2/149, which has 32metres reserve width that services the residential area.

The authorities was informed to reserve adequate land buffer for the construction when it was available but land was 'lost' due to a blunder... [read on]

Authorities Blunder, People Suffer

 
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Pictures of the narrow service road of which the
6-lane high speed KL-Putrajaya highway is to be built

 
 

The above service road is only 106 feet wide and the Government says that it is adequate to construct the 6-lane high speed highway to Putrajaya.
Issues With Respect To Authorities’ Approvals Of The Project

Issue No 1 - Relevant laws, acts, guidelines and regulations have not been complied.

Issue No 2 – Important concepts and pertinent information were not provided in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) reports, which defied the objective of EIA.
Supplementary EIA was made to 'hide' relevant information such as the 2.3 meters away from houses.

Issue No 3 - The relevant authorities failed to carry out their responsibilities
 DBKL approved housing project despite knowing that highway is to be built on existing land [read on]

'Rakyat' should not be made to compromise with

  • non compliance of laws, acts, guidelines and regulations
  • non compliance of National Environmental Policy
  • unreasonable proposal
  • infringement of public rights
  • sub standard town planning
  • environmental impacts and hazards


Stand Firm : Fight for our right, our health, our safety, our livelihood and stop such Government power abuse.

 
Chronology of events
As the project has direct impact to the residents in Sri Petaling, the residents have on many occasions and through many channels voiced their concerns to the relevant authorities. But, unfortunately, to-date there is no formal response provided. [Click here to find out more about what happened]



Announcements

27 Jul 2007 - Reply from Jabatan Alam Sekitar [Page 1, Page 2]

27 Jul 2007 - Reply from PM Office [Page 1]

17 Jul 2007 - Sent follow up letter to Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia [Page 1]

1 Jul 2007 - Sent follow up reminder to PM on Datuk Shahrir's recommendation [Page 1, Page 2, Page 3]

1 Jun 2007 - Sent letter of complaint to Jabatan Alam Sekitar on noise, vibration and dust pollution

17 May 2007 - Meeting with DBKL, concessionaire and relevant authorities to sort out the house repairs progress. [Minutes of meeting]

17 May 2007 - Datuk Shahrir has signed and dispatched letter with PAC recommending acquisition of land to the PM.

18 Apr 2007 - Datuk Shahrir visits the site again. This time to see the almost completed elevated highway and issue press conference on findings. Various media attended event on site and gave extensive cover on issue. Other media coverage - [The Sun]

28 Mar 2007 - Met Datuk Shahrir to hand over residents memorandum and proposed solution

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Construction just 2.3 meters away
from homes.

Video Clips - Nov 2005

The KL-Putrajaya Highway construction of 2.3 meters away from houses issue was debated in Parliament on Oct 18, 2005. Witness first hand how the Minister of Works acts and reacts.


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The full video is 49 mins and available for purchase by clicking here. All donations and sponsorships will go towards our struggle against such injustice and abuse for now and in the future.

Responses from Ministry of Works - Aug 2005


Malaysian Minister of Works,
Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu

Actual SMS reply from Minister of Works when Member of Parliament, YB Theresa Kok attempted to seek an opportunity for residents to meet the Minister, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

"YB Theresa no one can stop this RM 1.3 billion project The road is within our ROW. Any ATTEMPT to stop work means heavy Compensation..Sorry. Samyvellu" - Short Message Service reply on Aug 8, 2005
Resident's Dilemma - Residents are not capable of taking legal action against Govt as 'Heavy Compensation' is involved.

"YB Theresa The Sri Petaling residents objection overruled. The Government is compelled to build the road on land acquired by the Govt paying several hundred millions ringgit.That project is important to ease the traffic in KL/Seremaan Highway. samyvellu" - Short Message Service reply on Aug 7, 2005
Resident's Dilemma - The Govt 'FORGOT' to acquire adequate land in Sri Petaling which was AVAILABLE when the project was approved in 1997. In year 2000, available land was developed into middle class housing. Unsuspecting buyers bought houses and now victims of a federal Govt project!

"YB Theresa This project is already there before the Housing project. This is neither a new acquisition nor a new project. The government has paid heavy compensation to do this alternate protocol dedicated highway. No further delay or meeting with anyone will be allowed. The job will go on. Sorryi Samyvellu." - Short Message Service reply on Aug 8, 2005
Resident's Dilemma - Malaysian Govt knew about the planned housing project. They also know about the inadequate width for the elevated highway but DID NOTHING to acquire available land then. Unsuspecting buyers bought houses built on the then 'available KL-Putrajaya Highway land'. Why didn't the Govt acquire adequate land when it was available?

Look who's talking!

citizenunderdog.blogspot.com
USJ-Subang Jaya e-Community
Malaysia Voters Union
Autoworld
Lowyat.NET
sripetalingrocks.blogspot.com
Malaysiakini
www.zerotohundred.com
www.jeffooi.com - Screenshots
Narcissm is necessary
Property Malaysia
Jessie's Blog
Mental Block
Premonitions
Brand New Malaysian
MageP's Lab

Do you know?

LLM, DBKL, DOE say they are not aware about the sheer proximity of the highway to the homes!

A resident has written to the authorities way back in 1997 to realign the Right Of Way of the highway to utilize the undeveloped Zone N. [click here to see the letter and how it fell on deaf ears of the authorities]

The developer of Zone N (Petaling Garden Berhad) managed to obtain approval to build houses along a path of designated federal highway. How can that be?

 

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