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Meeting with Dato Ketua Pengarah of LLM
Posted by sripetaling.net in Correspondences, Residents Actions on July 1st, 2009
Last week on 24 June 2009, Dato’ Ketua Pengarah of Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia organized a meeting to meet the residents representatives regarding the issues highlighted in our email earlier. It was a well represented meeting with relevant organizations like Kementerian Kerja Raya (KKR), Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), highway concessionaire and of course LLM themselves.
The meeting provided a platform for us to reestablish our long forgotten struggle and reengage with LLM to seek a resolution to our issues. We were also glad that we were able to share our concerns and highlight any incorrect information that was provided to Dato’ Ketua Pengarah previously.
We presented 3 key issues of which we are seeking resolution to immediately. They are :
1. Long outstanding decision for an amicable solution
Independent studies by Biro Pengaduan Awam and Jabatan Audit Negara confirmed the flaws in the approval of the highway project which has caused a negative impact to the residents. They have recommended the Government to find a solution which included the acquisition of all the affected houses or provide compensation on any loss incurred by the affected residents.
Based on our previous survey conducted with the affected residents, the majority wanted compensation for the loss of market value and cost to mitigate air and noise pollution (eg. installing air conditioning system, double glazed windows, ionisers and exhaust fans).
2. Noise pollution far exceeded the limit approved
We also presented our findings where the noise levels have exceeded the approved limit stated in the condition of EIA approval.
We hope that Government is able to provide a better quality of life for the residents living next to the highway by installing noise barriers of appropriate height for both above in the elevated section and below the highway to mitigate the noise impact to the level in compliance with the EIA approval.
3. Outstanding repair work / compensation for houses with cracks
We also highlighted to Dato’ Ketua Pengarah that the repair work / compensation for houses with cracks and the monitoring work by DBKL have halted.
We believe that Dato’ Ketua Pengarah will be able to conduct a thorough review of the progress and resume the initiative to repair / compensate the cracked houses
We sent in an official letter summarizing our meeting with LLM on June 26 of which Dato’ Ketua Pengarah had replied indicating that he will be preparing a report to be sent to Ministry of Works while some of the items needs to be brought to the Minister’s attention for resolution.
We would like to thank Dato’ for looking into this matter on behalf of the affected residents and hopefully we can see the light soon.
The exact details of our letter can be found here. [page 1][page 2][page 3][page 4]
LLM impact survey follow up
Posted by sripetaling.net in Correspondences, News & Developments, Residents Actions on October 23rd, 2008
Mr Lau, Tan and Au met up with Dato’ Shahrir on 21 Oct 2008 at Parliament. We updated him on our follow-up actions and conveyed to him re our proposed resolutions (immediate and long term). He agreed to bring the matter to the Minister and Cabinet.
Here is the follow up letter to LLM we sent recently. Basically we would like to know the next action after the completion of the impact survey. We hope they can mitigate the impact of noise and dust pollution immediately
We will be counting the time it takes for them to respond to us again.
Still no reply from LLM..
Posted by sripetaling.net in News & Developments, Residents Actions on September 22nd, 2008
We are still awating a reply from LLM. Based on the letter we sent earlier, LLM is supposed to get back to us on the survey impact results.
I did a quick search on LLM website on the addressee of our letter, Ir Abdullah b. Hashim. Apparently he is the Pengarah for Pembangunan dan Pemantauan Projek (Director of Project Development and Implementation). This is quite an important position but it should NOT be with someone who doesn’t reply correspondences.
LLM Survey follow up letter
Posted by sripetaling.net in Correspondences, News & Developments, Residents Actions on July 7th, 2008
LLM follow up letter
We sent a follow up letter to LLM regarding the results of impact survey done previously. The residents are eager to know when any conclusion can be derived. Here is the hopeful letter.
Email to Tan Sri Mohd Sidek
Posted by sripetaling.net in Correspondences, Residents Actions on February 10th, 2008
Dear Tan Sri,
Hope you have a good break! Let me introduce myself. I am Lau Kien Foh, a resident and Chairman of the Highway Action Committee, Sri Petaling Resident Association. We are the residents in Taman Sri Petaling Kuala Lumpur and have been working proactively with all government departments/agencies to resolve the issues resulting from the construction and operation of the KL-Putrajaya highway cutting across the residential area of Sri Petaling.
Tan Sri, I admire your commitment to improve the delivery mechanism of the Government. I strongly agree and support your efforts as it is critical to the competitiveness of our nation. We are prepared to work with you in this important mission!
But,I need to highlight to you that the issues arising from the highway affecting about 1,000 residents in Sri Petaling are still unresolved! Despite many initiatives and attempts by various parties to highlight the safety and health issues of the residents over the last 30 months, there are still no responses from the authorities? Attached are the recent correspondences with our Prime Minister for your reference. You are also invited to visit our website www.sripetaling.net to have a better understanding on our issues and its progress.
Tan Sri, we look forward to receiving your response soonest possible, and we are ready to meet any relevant party to discuss amicable solution for the 1,000 residents in Sri Petaling. Please do not hesitate to call me (see contact below) if you need further information.
Thank you.
Yours truly,
Lau Kien Foh (Mr)
Chairman
Highway Action Committee
Sri Petaling Resident Association, Kuala Lumpur
Hand over inspection by DBKL
Posted by sripetaling.net in Citizen Suffers, Correspondences, News & Developments, Residents Actions on November 17th, 2007
Letter of issues outstanding
YB and DBKL visited Jalan 2/149 pn Nov 16 2007, Friday morning. The purpose is to ensure all things are in order before approving the hand-over of Jalan 2/149 back to DBKL by Maju Holdings (concessionaire for the highway). However, there are still some unresolved issues with regards to the current traffic, noise and safety. The residents wanted DBKL to ensure these issues are resolved before approving the hand-over.
The inspection team came and greeted by the residents reps and the concessionaire. We highlighted the current issues as per our last request which was not fulfilled. No conclusion could be obtained and the handover of the road back to DBKL could not proceed.
Meeting with the Minister of Works
Posted by sripetaling.net in Events & Meetings, News & Developments, Residents Actions on October 19th, 2005
Resident representatives meeting with the Minister of Works
On 17 October, 2005, I received a SMS from YB Teresa Kok that Works Minister, YB Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has requested her to convey a notice for meeting with the residents’ representatives to be held on 19 October at 4pm. Subsequently, I received calls and fax from the authorities informing the meeting with the Minister. The conditions were that the representatives are limited to three and no media should be invited.
Our action committee had an emergency meeting and nominated three representatives as follows:
- Lau Kien Foh – Overall representative
- Au Lai Koong – Represent Zon N
- Sallehudin – Represent Zon L
We also agreed on the strategy and action steps. We decided to take the opportunity to show all the documentation evidence and convince the Minister on our positions.
On 19 October 2005, our team arrived at the ministry half an hour before the meeting and soon joined by YB Teresa. We were invited into the meeting room around 4pm. In the meeting room, there were about 20 senior officers from the authorities. We took the opportunity to introduce ourselves and also get to know them. About 10 mins later, the Minister walked into the meeting room and shook hands with us.
The protest continues in Sri Petaling homes
Posted by sripetaling.net in Residents Actions on October 2nd, 2005
After our protest at the Parliament, we decided to continue our protest literally in our backyard of our homes. Our colorful and impactful banners was hung at the wall behind our homes to notify the passing traffic of our grievances.
Here are some of the pictures
Among the messages were :
“Highway is destroying our homes”
“Jangan Gadaikan Nyawa Penduduk untuk Lebuhraya”
“Authorities Error, Rakyat Suffer”
“No to Highway 2.3 Meters away from Homes”
Our aim is for the Government to assist us in moving out of the the area which is no longer conducive for residential living. Under certain circumstances, the Malaysian Government has acquired the land and property to build infrastructure projects like this. We are wondering why they refuse to help the citizens this time. Is this a sign of a complacent Government?
Response to issues raised during press conference by Minister of Works, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu
Posted by sripetaling.net in Press Coverage, Residents Actions on September 25th, 2005
The Works Minister made the following statements during their press conference to respond to the issues that was raised by us but we believe he was fed with wrong information to start with.
Subsequently, the residents held a press conference on 24 Sept 2005 to respond to the statements made by the Works Minister. Here are the details of our response.
Point 1: “The purpose of the highway is to ease the traffic at KL-Seremban highway. It is important to proceed as the traffic volume at KL-Seremban highway has increased significantly.”
Residents Response:
The residents support development projects by the Government. We believe the Government has done proper due diligence and viability studies before approving this highway project. However, we do not believe that it is the Government’s intention to plan for certain sections of the highway (in this case the stretch along Jalan 2/149 at Sri Petaling) to cause the residents to live in fear for the rest of their life. This is definitely not consistent with the “Caring Government” as advocated.
In additions, we do not believe that the Government would approve the setback of 2.3m which is clearly breaching its own guidelines; the Government would also not allow project to be carried out without prior consultation/ briefing with the affected residents
Point 2: “Construction work started about 30% and spent about RM400mil. If changes to the engineering construction design, it will cause delay and additional costs.”
Residents Response:
We believe our Government is far sighted. We understand that this is supposed to be a “Protocol Highway” that will be another national icon for Malaysian. Surely, we would not allow mistake/error by the authorities to make us a laughing stock for the world. There are alternatives to resolve the mistake and timely resolution will cause the Government less as compared to ignoring the mistake made.
Protest at Malaysia Parliament House
Posted by sripetaling.net in Events & Meetings, News & Developments, Residents Actions on September 20th, 2005
While all the effort to communicate and resolve our issues ignored, the residents decided to stage a protest at the Malaysia Parliament House during one of the sitting.
The residents conducted a peaceful protest at the Parliament on the 19 Sept 2005. Arriving in the morning, close to about 100 residents of Sri Petaling lifted their spirits and colorful banners to voice their displeasure for the construction of the highway so close to their homes.
We prepared a memorandum to be handed to some of the Members of Parliament for the purpose of highlighting our struggle. We met Dato Shahrir Samad who is the chairman of Backbenchers Club and Public Accounts Committee (PAC). He received our memorandum and agreed to investigate into the matter. We also distributed leaflets which was circulating in the House hoping the Works Minister would take notice our effort to contact him.
Here are some of the selected pictures . (Click on the pictures to see the whole gallery)
We finally managed to meet the Works Minister, Samy Vellu and he mentioned a few statements regarding the project indicating that he is not afraid to meet the residents because he is NOT in the wrong. He got all fired up and screamed when one of the residents made a harsh but true comment about him and the project.
Click here to see more pictures of our protest at the Parliament House of Malaysia
The following were some of the achievements during the protest.
- We managed to achieve the following at the parliament picketing
- Distributed about 400 flyers to all passer-by going in and out of the Parliament
- Met up with Dato Shahrir, Chairman of Public Accounts Committee to present our case
- Press interview with ntv7
- Finally we managed to meet Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu on his way out of the Parliament
We hope the Minister would seriously look into our request this time.
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Highway Key Facts
26KM stretches from Kampung Pandan to Putrajaya
consession signed on 22 Oct 1997
adequate land was available then
resident wrote letter to LLM to advice them to ensure adequate buffer zone since there is land (1997)
project was shelved due to economic crisis
DBKL approved housing project when they should have reserved the land for highway
houses built and sold to unsuspecting buyers
land was 'lost' in the process due to authorities blunder
project is bulldozed through despite protest for safety
project is in breach of their own guidelinesIsn't it ironic?
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?