Friday, February 16, 2007

Battle of Penang (2)

Now want to build a by-pass road to avoid BORR and it take 3 months (here too). During this 3 months of waiting, the toll collection should delay till the by-pass road complete.

"The state government's hands are tied as the decision to impose toll was the prerogative of the federal government and the BORR concessionaire, Lingkaran Luar Butterworth Sdn Bhd.

"The only thing we can do now is to appeal to the federal government and the concessionaire to defer toll collection at the plaza until the free alternative route is ready," said Teng.

Why when this issue affect local resident, the state government can't make a say in it? the project suppose to benefit Rakat, not burden Rakyat. There should has a public consultation before proceed with the project, not after the people opposed to it. Why all the main road being converted to Highway then leave no road for us to drive FOC although we pay our road tax every year. Why must we use by-pass road which wasting our time turn here & there and creating another hell of jam and affecting the livelihood of those residents like Taman Kimsar, etc?

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