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MAKE CONCESSIONAIRE BUILD SECOND EXIT, MPSJ URGED
The Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) should bar all right turns into Shah Alam Expressway (SAE) from both sides of Jalan Kewajipan and force the concessionaire to build a send exit in Subang Jaya.
Subang Jaya State Assemblyman Lee Hwa Beng said he would propose to the council soon to block the right turns as this would help to ease congestion along the road. "By doing this vehicles will be able to move more easily along Jalan Kewajipan as they will not have to wait for vehicles which are turning right into the expressway either to head to Shah Alam or Sri Petaling," he said. He said if the right turns were closed, motorists would have to either go to Jalan Kewajipan-Sunway roundabout or Taipan and make a U-turn and come back to the junction. He said he would propose that right turns from the expressway too be barred so that motorists would have to make U-turns to go to the opposite side of the road.
He said he hoped that the complaints from motorists using the expressway would prompt the concessionaire Kesas Sdn Bhd to start working towards building a second exit. MPSJ, where Lee is also a councillor, has been involved in a tug-of-war with Kesas for over a year as to whether a second exit can and should be built.MPSJ wants a slip road built from the fly over along Jalan Tujuan to provide residents with a second exit. Residents now have no choice but drive to the flyover at Jalan Kewajipan to enter the expressway creating serious congestion at the junction there.
Lee said when the council first proposed the idea Kesas claimed that the structure of the fly over was not strong enough to support a slip road. He said it (Kesas) later claimed that the cost for such a slip road was RM40 million and the company could not bear such an expensive cost. He said however a private consultant hired by MPSJ found that a slip road could be built without affecting the structure and it could be built at half the cost. He said the matter had already taken too long to settle as residents suffered daily due to the unnecessary congestion. Lee said he felt that this would be the best way to make the concessionaire co-operate with the council to build the second exit. He also said that state Infrastructure Permanent Committee chairman Datuk Fuad Hassan would be visiting the Jalan Kewajipan junction to see the seriousness of the congestion there. He said the council was also holding regular meetings with Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) to try and resolve the matter as soon as possible.
Comment
The above article was taken from a newspaper and was published early last year. Till now no proper solution has been given to the matter.
This is a typical example of the Barisan Nasional MPs and State Assembly man working ethics. How many of you guys have heard those lame excuses before? Need more time; still investigating; will discuss with the right person or officer in charge; another party still not ready and bla bla bla… Those are actually nonsense! If you Datuk Lee is in the ruling party and you cannot come up with a solid solution what difference does it make to have you around? We might as well replace you with a robot, just to pay lip service when it is necessary and do nothing at other times like a dummy.