A large petrify wall collapsed along Taman Esplanade final night, a possible result of land clearing methods linked to an LRT prolongation project.
BUKIT JALIL: Land clearing methods linked to a Ampang Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) prolongation plan might have caused a landslide as good as a collapse of a large petrify perimeter wall along Taman Esplanade. Residents here pronounced which a wall was a usually thing between their housing area as good as a Sungai Kuyoh river, flowing about 20m away.
Local resident Tan Tiong Chew, 62, told FMT which a landslide occurred during about 10.30pm final night.
"I listened something during around which time, as good as we thought it was lightning, though we didn't see anything. we checked a back of my residence later, as good as we was wondering why a land during a back of it collapsed?" he said.
He after found which a slant directly during a back of his corner house, a together jogging track as good as some-more than 30m of petrify perimeter wall, had incited in to a pile of rubble.
The six-year-resident pronounced he had to move his family to a front partial of his residence for safety. He additionally told FMT which he had formerly spent some-more than RM20,000 upon pier substructure functions for his house. Large white pieces were additionally seen sticking out of a ! ruins, w hich Tan described as "polystyrene chunks", which appeared to be embedded during a back of a wall.
Miraculously, a Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) substation subsequent to his residence was additionally left unscathed. However, both structures as good as a most houses as good as an adjoining blurb area shift precariously by this error line.
Residents told FMT which they believed which a makeshift highway privileged only beneath a foot of a 10m-high wall was a means of a problem.
Cracks in TNB substation area
Extended in to a river, they pronounced which most of a trees along a riverbank had been chopped down over a year before, leaving usually underbrush as good as a mud road.
The Ampang Line LRT line could be obviously seen across a river. The project, expecting a 2014 completion date, was being managed by a Bina Puri-Tim Sekata corner venture, postulated by Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad.
According to another local Sunny Chee, 53, a highway was used by lorries serviced by Bina Puri contractors from 7am to 7pm daily.
"They used to expostulate by down there," he said, indicating to a destruction, before to adding: "At breakneck speed! They are complicated lorries, carrying sand as good as concrete, how can they be pushing so fast?"
Asked if residents here had complained about a activities, Chee pronounced which they did not feel confident in a authorities' possible reactions. Strengthening this was Tan, who pronounced which he had informed TNB a couple of days before about worrying cracks appearing in a TNB substation area.
"They came two days ago,! did a s urvey, though they never did anything," he said.
When FMT arrived during a stage this morning, Bina Puri contractors as good as Prasarana officials were already there. Bina Puri workers, it seemed, were already rolling tarps down a slopes influenced by a landslide.
An angry Tan approached them, asking what they were starting to do about a hull during a back of his house. One lady told him: "We will demeanour in to it."
They additionally declined to speak to FMT, adding which it would be best to get a response from their client, Prasarana.
Meanwhile, Prasarana pronounced in a statement which it was now assisting Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) in stabilising a damaged slope, as good as had informed DBKL's Crisis as good as Natural Disaster Unit over a matter.
It combined which a incident was outside of a right-of-way, or legally postulated access, of a Ampang Line LRT prolongation project.
Company media affairs manager Azhar Ghazali said: "Prasarana would like to highlight which there were no construction activities carried out by its appointed executive during a time of a slant failure."
He pronounced which DBKL will be advising over a fortitude as good as reserve of a houses as good as TNB substation influenced by a landslide.
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