Archive for April, 2009

DBKL never learns!

Posted by sripetaling.net in General Info, News & Developments on April 28th, 2009

There is an article in The Star Online today which has the following title “Residents claim proposed LRT lines too close to homes“. It looks like DBKL never learns. Despite the previous blunder which has caused the KL - Putrajaya highway to be built 2 metres away from our homes in Seri Petaling, now they will make the residents in Taman Esplanad in Bukit Jalil suffer what we have gone through during the construction.

Incidentally, it seems like DBKL is making a lot of major blunders in this part of the city, we wonder why?

Here is the full story from The Star Online

Residents claim proposed LRT lines too close to homes
By BAVANI M

MORE than a hundred residents living in Taman Esplanad in Bukit Jalil Kuala Lumpur staged a peaceful protest on Saturday to object to a proposed LRT extension running through their neighbourhood.

The residents are worried that if approved, the lines located some 12 metres from their backyard, will pose problems to those living in the area.

“The LRT alignments were proposed in the Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 (DKLCP2020) and we had already made our objections at a public hearing committee last year. But, we were surprised to discover that soil investigation work is currently being carried out at the site,” said a resident who only wished to be identified as Soh. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why we want to see the toll concession agreement for MEX (KL-Putrajaya Highway)?

Posted by sripetaling.net in General Info on April 3rd, 2009

The Government made some toll concession agreement public recently. As reported by The Star Online, the revelation of the agreements was announced way back in Oct 17, 2008. Unfortunately, they did not reveal the concession agreement for Maju Expressway (KL-Putrajaya Highway). Apparently, MEX did not want the agreement to be revealed.

We are very doubtful in the enforcement of the agreement between Maju and the Government. We believe certain terms and conditions were breached and this would have led to residents having to suffer more than expected. We believe that opening the Seri Petaling interchange is illegal! This is because during the project conceptualization, the KL-Putrajaya highway should have been a protocol highway all the way from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya (Malaysia Government Administrative Center).

However during the construction, the Seri Petaling interchange was subsequently added to the highway despite the lack of available land. This has led to the construction of the roads leading to interchange to reach the backyard of some houses which was not in the initial plan.

What this means is that the residents living under the highway will now be subjected to more noise and dust pollution with safety risk increased due to the increase in traffic as a result of the interchange. The interchange certain serves to the benefit of the concession holder as there will be more toll to be collected but at the expense of the residents who are also the citizens of Malaysia, mind you!

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