Property owners hit out at MRT Corp CEO

Property owners in Chinatown contend a MRT Corp boss is creation 'baseless' statements in dismissing a proposal to realign a tunnel.

KUALA LUMPUR: Property owners from Chinatown currently strike out during MRT Corp CEO Azhar Abdul Hamid for his "irresponsible" remarks in rejecting a proposal to realign a doubtful tunnelling plan to circuitously Jalan Tan Cheng Lok.

The tunnelling is partial of a Klang Valley My Rapid Transit (KVMRT).

"MRT Corp claims which if a hovel is realigned to Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lok, twenty-nine buildings will be demolished. This is a groundless claim if there have been no studies to await this statement," pronounced Stanley Yong, co-chairman of a cabinet for "Preserving Jalan Sultan as well as Jalan Bukit Bintang".

He combined which Jalan Tan Cheng Lok was twice a width of Jalan Sultan as well as if buildings had to be demolished, it could usually be worse for Jalan Sultan.

Yong combined which it was "unprofessional as well as irresponsible" of Azhar to once again "instill fright in a people as well as create conflict between a owners of both areas".

The cabinet had proposed realigning a hovel to Jalan Tan Cheng Lok due to fright which a older buildings in Jalan Sultan might not ward off a repairs caused by a tunneling works as well as to preserve it as a birthright site.

"This is in no way passing a sire or a problem to Jalan Sultan skill owners. Moreover, Jalan Tan Cheng Lok is a six-lane highway as well as no land merger is required," he said.

Last Wednesday, Azhar pronounced which it would means more problems such as a closure of a vital highway if a hovel was to be built during Jalan Tan Cheng Lok. Today, a cabinet additionally asked for "vital as well as important" reports such as Social Impact Assessment Report as well as a Soil Investigation Report to be done available.

Yong pronounced which MRT Corp had earlier told a cabinet to demeanour during a straightforwardly accessible Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) inform on a project, but he combined more details need to be done public.

"They [MRT Corp] told us to impute to a EIA. The amicable implications of a plan is usually one page long. That is not sufficient as there needs to be a apart inform on a stroke of a plan from a cultural, historical, societal level.

"I don't assimilate why is MRT Corp so hesitant. Until these reports have been done available, a cabinet will conclude which nothing of these studies were conducted," he said.

The cabinet will meet with Minister in Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz tomorrow to direct which these reports be disclosed.

It formerly met Nazri as well as Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak twice in Mar to voice its grouses. Following a meeting, Najib pronounced which a entire Jalan Sultan as well as Jalan Petaling will be gazetted as birthright site.

Yong pronounced which MRT Corp as well as a government contingency give a organisation assurance which a buildings in Jalan Sultan have been taken out from a list of land to be acquired underneath a project.

Since mid-last year, skill owners in a area have been protesting opposite portions of a KVMRT plan involving their area.

They fright which a underground tunnelling might means future repairs to old buildings as well as a loss of a birthright site. This still remains a main concern.