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Kenapakah Kontrak Lebuhraya KL-Putrajaya Tidak Diumumkan?
Posted by sripetaling.net in General Info, News & Developments on February 25th, 2009
PEMBERITAHUAN PERTANYAAN BAGI JAWAB LISAN DEWAN RAKYAT
TARIKH: 24 FEBRUARI 2009 (SELASA)
SOALAN :
Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim (Seputeh) minta MENTERI KERJA RAYA menyatakan sebab Kerajaan enggan mengumumkan kontrak Lebuh Raya KL-Putrajaya. Adakah ini disebabkan oleh Syarikat Konsesi Lebuh Raya KL-Putrajaya tidak menunaikan janjinya untuk membina bahagian jalan yang menyambung Putrajaya ke KLIA sebagaimana yang termaktub dalam persetujuannya dengan Kerajaan.
JAWAPAN :
Tuan Yang Di-Pertua.
Untuk makluman Ahli Yang Berhormat, pihak Kerajaan telah bersetuju untuk mendedahkan semua perjanjian konsesi bagi lebuhraya yang telah beroperasi. Walaubagaimanapun, Kerajaan tertakluk kepada klausa “confidentiality’ yang mana persetujuan Syarikat Konsesi Lebuhraya Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya (Maju Expressway Sdn. Bhd) diperlukan sebelum Perjanjian Konsesi Lebuhraya Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya didedahkan kepada umum. Syarikat konsesi tidak memberi persetujuan terhadap pendedahan perjanjian konsesi tersebut kepada umum.
Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat, Syarikat Konsesi telah mematuhi semua spesifikasi yang ditetapkan dalam perjanjian konsesi.
Berhubung dengan pembinaan Lebuhraya dari Putrajaya ke KLIA yang sepanjang 16 km, mengikut perjanjian konsesi, Syarikat hendaklah dalam masa 5 tahun daripada tarikh pewartaan kutipan TOL, mengemukakan laporan kepada Kerajaan berhubung pembinaan lebuhraya ini dari segi kewangan dan ekonomi, samada pembinaan lebuhraya ini ‘viable’ atau tidak.
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.
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.
Actual SMS responses from Minister of Works, Samy Vellu
Posted by sripetaling.net in News & Developments, Residents Actions on August 10th, 2005
Malaysian Minister of Works, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu
Actual SMS reply from Minister of Works when Member of Parliament, YB Teresa 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?
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Random Pictures
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?