Penang unveils RM8b traffic mitigation blueprint

Lim pronounced a projects would be financed through land swaps involving reward genuine estate upon a island. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 The Penang government today voiced an desirous RM8 billion plan to construct four major highway as well as hovel projects that target to reduce trade overload in a state.

Touting it as a state government's biggest infrastructure practice to date, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng pronounced a projects all of that will be conducted via open tender will additionally concede larger entrance between a island as well as a mainland.

The due projects are a third (tunnel) couple joining Gurney Drive to Seberang Perai North District, a side highway joining Gurney Drive to a Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu expressway, a couple between Bandar Baru Air Itam to a same expressway, as good as a interconnected highway to a existing coastal highway from Tanjung Bungah to Teluk Bahang.

"We need a northern couple joining Gurney Drive to Butterworth, to have it simpler for people in a mainland to come to a island, as well as this will ease up overload in further to a dual Penang bridges.

"The estimated costs for this plan will be between RM5 [and] RM8 billion as well as approaching to be finished by 2020," Lim told reporters here.

The Penang CM pronounced a state government will not yield any payments for a projects, as well as that a costs incurred will be recovered through a "competitive land swap" deals with impending companies.

Lim pronounced his administration will yield a rough financial proposal that will include a planned financing make up as good as bids to redeem costs.

"The due land swap will engage a most appropriate budding land in Penang, that is in Gurney... a price of land in Penang will enlarge over a subsequent couple of years, as well as this will good a companies who will undertake a highway as well as hovel proj! ects."

He additionally pronounced his administration was additionally seeking during a probability of conducting a toll complement for a projects once they are completed, though combined this was provisional as well as would rely upon what interested companies had to offer.

A pre-qualification practice lecture for impending companies will be hold in Penang upon Nov 29. Application as well as questionnaire pro-forma forms will be given out then as well as bidders contingency submit a forms by 12pm, January 2012.

Works will tentatively proceed sometime in 2015.

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