Posts Tagged Issues Unresolved
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]
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 DBKL on house cracks
Posted by sripetaling.net in Events & Meetings on May 18th, 2007
A meeting was arranged to find a resolution to the affected houses on 17 May 2007 (Thursday). Among the key attendees include Timb. Pengarah of JKA, Ir. Tan Ken Chok, reps from LLM, IKRAM, DBKL, Contractors, Sri Petaling residents.
Among the issues discussed are :
- 3 out of the 4 houses with serious cracks have been resolved. Owners have agreed to the proposed compensation. The last one has also agreed to the proposed repair, pending the suitable time to carry out the work.
- The rest of the outstanding houses has been urged to resolve asap and set a new timeline by end June 2007.
- Proposals will be distributed to residents via the residents’ association representatives.
- Residents also brought up issues such as air pollution, noise pollution, and construction work.
KL-Putrajaya Highway Resident Update - Apr 2006
Posted by sripetaling.net in Events & Meetings, News & Developments, Press Coverage on April 30th, 2006
The following is the residents newsletter update…
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Dear fellow residents,
Thank you for attending our residents meeting held at the Sri Petaling Community Center. For those of you who missed our meeting, we wish to inform you the following outcome.
1. The concessionaire will be contacting individual house owner regarding the repairs. They will give you a proposal on how they intend to repair your house. You will need to negotiate the proposal with the concessionaire directly. The committee members will not be involved in the negotiation between you and the concessionaire unless necessary. Please bear in mind that they are suppose to restore your house to its original state. You are allowed to use your own contractor provided you notify them beforehand of the costs. If the repairs are done by the concessionaire, a warranty is included. For those of you who have done some repairs on your own, please keep the receipts so that you can make a claim later.
2. The survey forms circulated gathered the following responses. In total, 46% responses have been recorded from Jalan 1/149J while Zone N has a response rate of 68%. We will inform you of the results once we get more submissions. Please remind your neighbours to return the survey form to the Zone N guard house. We need the results to tell the authorities what our demands are as a single voice later.
3. Car stickers has been distributed during the meeting. Please put them on your cars to tell the authorities that our issue is not settled yet. We don’t want them to think that we have accepted the issue and have no intention to pursue further. If you need more stickers, please drop by Zone N’s guard house and request for them.
If you need to make any complaint to the concessionaire please call Ms Yati of Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd at 012-3935075.
We shall be updating you more often as time permits.
Yours Sincerely,
Sri Petaling Zone N Residents Action Committee
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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?