Penang projects canceled
Jun 28th, 2008 by Tian
PM Abdullah canceled two projects—PORR and Monorail in the 9th Malaysia Plan.
He said the decision is not political and is not because Penang is ruled by Pakatan Rakyat. It is hard for the people to believe that the BN Federal Government is fair to all states.
While cutting back on Penang and other Pakatan’s states, the Federal Government is pouring billions into corridors. In fact nobody is convinced with the real value of launching these corridors.
Personally I am not in favour of the two projects. PORR and Monorail would not solve the problems of traffic congestion in Penang. The state government can now use this opportunity to rethink new initiatives. We can have effective and cheap solution, which the BN failed to provide.
Monorail in KL is already a failure. Penang need not repeat the same bad experience. We must thank Pak Lah for being unfair, in a way he has saved Penang from another disaster.
YB, you are very sarcastic! But I agree with you. Anyway, congratulations for winning this seat(I know it’s a bit too late). I will support PKR forever!
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It’s clearly politically driven……such is the norms of Malaysian politics.
The States of Penang, Selangor and Perak should look outside the square for attracting investments, fundings and the like. Forget about those in the Federal administration, they appeared to be a bunch of directionless souls.
Dear YB,
I too wonder at the wisdom of pouring so much money into the so called ‘corridors’…it somehow brings to my mind sinister plots which connotes an evil hush of “beware of whispers along the corridors”…
I agree that Monorail and LRT in KL for that matter, has a lot of room for improvement. But I beg to differ that they are a total failure or not necessary. The problem again lies with the implementation. Mass transportation is one of the key point which must be given utmost careful thought and planning for growth of a world class city; the other being housing. Failure to plan these two carefully will determine if KL will end up like ‘fume-filled forever traffic-jam’ situations like Jakarta or Bangkok; or pleasant commuting like in Switzerland or even Singapore.
But then again if you have situations where you have to drag your luggage accross busy roads just because the connecting LRT or Monorail stations are ‘not connected’ because one is STAR and the other is PUTRA and for some reasons they are not properly connected because everyone wants a piece of the cake when these are built…well, what can we say!! Classic example is the Masjid Jamek Putra and Star stations..
In the case of Penang, they have to plan properly to avoid tourists and tourist buses,taxis and other related tourism activities not to clash with regular residents activities. Having an LRT or Monorail may not be a bad idea but make sure they don’t repeat the same mistakes of having both Putra and Star..
My question is why proposed these two projects (PORR and monorail) in the first place?
Shouldn’t thorough studies be made before any announcement is made? Why plan and half way thru cancel (postponed) it.
Tian, don’t let PKR and PR get sidetrack with DSAI case, otherwise BN/Umno will just say PKR is championing only for one man, sounds familiar.
Just don’t get trap in BN’s game.
Get on with the march to Putrajaya and other economic issues. Get the BN busy and jumping on their feet. The way I see it, you people are on the defensive. Get on the offensive on the double.
as we all know, the federal government always engage clowns to study the transportation plan in malaysia. Once i heard an old man said that the person that design the highway in malaysia never drive. hence u have the problematic MRR2. i agree with tian chua that we should perform a more comprehensive study for a solution on the transportation problem in Penang. I hope that will become an example for the KL which facing less than 30% of KL citizen are using public transport.
the more project the federal government cancel from the 5 pakatan states, the more support the rakyat is going to give to the pakatan state. the federal government is still like a cry baby after losing the milk bottle.
The federal government fellows will never learn. For the 5 pakatan states looks like “things get tough,tough get going”. Even after more than 3 months, the federal government is still like a crying baby after losing the milk bottle. So, what i want to say here is, don’t even ever consider giving him a pacifier.