Posts Tagged Failed Promises
Email to Tan Sri Mohd Sidek again..
Posted by sripetaling.net in Correspondences on May 28th, 2009
The committee members had a meeting last week to update the status of our struggle. Despite our busy schedules, we managed to make time at our usual mamak place for a night meeting.
Apparently, the Government had not responded to our correspondences. All the promises for a quick and efficient administration seems to be just hearsay. We have been waiting for 15 months now since our letter to the Prime Minister who had promised to look into our matter and come up with a solution. The letter dated 1 July 2007 can be found here [page 1, page 2, page 3]. Subsequently we received a letter of acknowledgment stating that the Prime Ministers office has received our letter on 26 July 2007 [page 1].
We have also sent a reminder letter to our Prime Minister on 19 Sept 2007 as we did not receive any response from the PMO since the letter of acknowledgment [page 1, page 2, page 3].
Here is our latest email to Tan Sri Mohd Sidek sent on 28 May 2009. Oh yes, we attached all the letters we previously sent to him too. We hope there will be a response this time.
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Dear Tan Sri,
Congratulations for your extension of service to the Government of Malaysia. I hope this email find you well.
I would like to keep Tan Sri informed that since we last communicated about the highway issues facing the residents of Sri Petaling Kuala Lumpur on 10 Feb 2008, we have followed up with TKP LLM, Ir. Ismail Md. Salleh as suggested by Tan Sri.
We regret to inform Tan Sri that till today (after 15 months), there are no responses nor resolutions nor updates from the authorities. While we understand Tan Sri’s commitment to drive service excellent among public service delivery, this bad experience that we are facing is clearly a contradictory to what Tan Sri intended to achieve!
We hope Tan Sri will inquire what has gone wrong in the process and we are always ready to work with Tan Sri to resolve the issues facing our residents.
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.
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.
A Resident’s Letter to Malaysian Government in 1997
Posted by sripetaling.net in Correspondences, General Info on June 30th, 2005
A letter was drafted by a resident of Seri Petaling when he heard about plans to build a highway nearby his house. The contents describes the availability of land and how the Government can build it so that there will be minimal impact to the residents living nearby.
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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?