The New Straits Times reports that Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has appointed arborists to check on trees along city roads, and the initial sum of 100,000 trees earmarked is set to grow as work progresses. Mayor Datuk Seri Mohd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz said an arborist is assigned to each of the 16 teams of contractors in charge of tree maintenance.
According to the mayor, “the number that we’ve obtained so far is only for those identified along main roads. The process of updating our inventory of trees is ongoing. “The incredibly strong wind following a downpour on Friday evening was a cause for concern among motorists especially during the downpour, although DBKL had maintained that the felled trees were caused by the strong wind,” he said, adding that the arborists have started their survey last year.
The report added that the rain also led to flash floods at Jalan Kemuja (near Jalan Bangsar), Jalan Duta, Jalan Semantan, and Batu Caves, bringing traffic to a halt in those areas. DBKL says that a total of 39 locations with fallen trees were reported following the Friday storm, which damaged cars around the city as well as a house in Jalan Klang Lama.
The areas receiving inspection include the National Planetarium entrance, Jalan Sultan Salahuddin, areas in front of Astro in Bukit Jalil, SK Tasik Permaisuri, PLUS Highway exit to Sri Petaling, Jalan Perdana Masjid Negara, among others.
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DBKL is mor einterested in collecting duit kopi from the stall owners and from owners of houses who have done illegal extensions. They are not interested in fallen trees.
Everyone in the DBKL Jalan Raja Laut trees are so loaded. They spend their time asking for money for renovation works and to settle saman without official receipts.
I was in Bangsar last week during the hailstorm, went past 2 fallen trees blocking the entire road and just heading to the carpark before my car gets further damaged by hail. Lucky no visible damage.
I have a question: Does special perils loading for insurance cover hail damage? It says flood, hurricane and storms in my policy. Well, if the insurance co hasn’t detailed it well, I would say yes, hail due to thunderstorm is covered.
Hopefully, there won’t be calls to rid our city of trees, lets please keep our trees but advise people to stay off roads during heavy rain.
Go learn from Spore on how to preserve and, maintain trees. All these “noises” are recipe for more corruption!
Seem like there at Singapore there is no fallen trees due to bad weather. Even Singapore are coming to us for forest/plant studies. Singapore is so damn good ah?
Well, at least Singapore has a system to track ALL the trees they planted in the island. You can know the condition and details of every single tree via that system.
Maybe not damn good, but at least it’s good?
DBKL also have the system to monitor their planted trees. If not how come they can take action against some food stall/business that are damaging their trees. My point is even a nice healthy, well manage planted trees also can be down because of the bad weather that happen recently.
sudah banjir, pokok pokok tumbang, accident happened, million of RM wasted, wasted manpower, endless frustration from rakyat….then the DBKL monkey doing something….
This is just wayang kulit and soon things will be forgotten. Next year, the same incident will re-occur and same bullshit will be done by DBKL…
Took late lah, DBKL. Damaged already done…
Can’t really expect much from DBKL nasi lemak gang…..
You’ll be surprised how many arborists we have under DBKL compared to Singapore and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)…
The number of Arborists in Malaysia is shamefully low…..