The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has confirmed to us the renaming of eight roads in the city:
- Jalan Duta to Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim
- Jalan Khidmat Usaha to Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah
- Jalan Ipoh (from Jalan Segambut junction to Jalan Pahang junction) to Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah
- Persiaran Duta to Persiaran Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
- Jalan Khidmat Setia and Jalan Ibadah to Jalan Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin
- Lebuhraya Mahameru to Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar
- Persiaran Mahameru to Persiaran Tuanku Ja’afar
- Jalan Semarak to Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra
UPDATE: KL mayor Ahmad Phesal has clarified that the correct new name for Jalan Duta is Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim and not Jalan Tunku Abdul Halim as stated in the press release.
These roads are now named after the current and past Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Work on the installation of new signboards will begin tomorrow (November 26), DBKL says.
What’s the rationale behind this?
Shiok Sendiry
From a short road name to a “Longer” road name.
Making people suffer?!!!
Who make the decision to change?? A total “idi**”.
DBKL instead of doing silly things like this, please clean up your officers. Your officers are so dirty and all of them are asking money money money in pasar malams.
Your enforcement officers are dirty to the core. They are heavy on the take. Always pressing gerai owners for payments to close an eye.
And your renovation department is also so dirty to the core. Nearly every building in KL or house got illegal unapproved extensions. Your officer do go to apprehend these offenders but after angpau is given, everything close on eye.
So many of us suffer with neighbour walls right on our faces. My neighbour house alone is 2 feet from my house. Even when he kentut also I can hear. Every nigh when he main his wife, I can hear is wife screaming.
When I complain to the officers about his illegal extension that goes 2 feet from my house, my neighbour gives them a couple of thousand ringgit ang pau. Kes tutup.
So, DBKL, concentrate on more important things. Your departments are so so so corrupted to the CORE and yet you got time to change names of roads.
Bagus lah UMNO.
Who can remember such names? How can you expect someone to differentiate Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah and Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah?
What’s next? Lebuhraya Utara Selatan changed to Lebuhraya Datin Seri Hajah Rosmah binti Mansor??
Sad, we have *tupid leader here in Malaysia. No progress on facilities but probably planting tree replace Pokok Bunga (& cutting tree again when they grow bigger), Billion for Signboard, and next whole Building demolish to build new one after few month renovate.
What is the rational?
1. New road with those new name – is Good.
2. Avoid big tree for divider- is good.
3. Maintain the renoveted building – use ICT to send message/communication is good.
Not cost billion.
& you can build new road w/o tax, pay local labour extra with high tech tool (no need burma/bangla/crime), modern toilet facilities with CCTV & auto alarm for no flush.
No bombastic PEOPLE here.
Stupid VIP to proud got tender for Change Signboard & making others difficult. “Arrogant VIP” thinks same level as the real inventor like Jobs, gates or Ramli burger.
Idea too stupid for common people to judge as Intelligent level never increase. Lower than stupid rated low than Condo for Cows (the most stupid benchmark last 5 years).
Finally tax will increase to pay the stupid VIPs luxury living.
any proof eh?
Main his wife also want proof kah?
This move alone will cost the Gomen RM$1 billion or more. Gomen ask us to tighten our belts. Tanam kangkung. Makan jagung. Ayam RM1 per bird.
Everything needs to be upgraded. The RMAF and PDRM Aerial surveillance equippment in all their helicopters and planes that scan KL need to be upgraded. The software alone cost so a bomb.
The company upgrading the software will charge the government maximum. I wonder who owns the software company?
Even KLIA and all the airports need to upgrade their software and maps on their systems to update their radar system. I wonder who owns the company to upgrade this software?
Remember many years ago got glitch in the Radar software, nothing happened to the company at all. Nearly caused massive plane crashes. This what happens when you get a RM1 company that was set up last month.
The same with MAS. MAS is being bought over by a small company set up last month.
It is time Government stop giving jobs, contracts and business to RM1 companies that we set up yesterday as this encourages cronyism and corruption.
The Sultan of Selangor or the King should strip all the Datukships of all the heads in DBKL for promoting such wastage and using their names in vain without consultation with the public.
Each head in DBKL is a Datuk and the Datukship need to be withdrawn with such public protest. News has gone viral on the Internet. Everyone is talking about it. So much anger in the public now. Infact this news alone has made a record 36,000 postings on Facebook, a record for Paultan. No news has ever made such number of postings.
There is so much of anger in the public now.
Federal Territory Land Office has only ten car parks for us good paymaster Rakyat to pay Cukai Tanah Taksiran . No LRT ,no bus stop,no money for elevated carparks also ; open air roads ; Tq so much from concern Citizens or those who do it themselves allocation of budget or those who rather have their own lands title in their hands. Oh ? Sorry , any other suggestion which not take from your collection from budget ? Hmmmm, FT may have a service for security guard for hire in event we have our original land titles FT Land Office to present for transfer ,charge , collection after discharge ?have money for SMS and also guard ? Or offer insurance for titles in transit ! Perhaps tie up with Insurance company for Rakyat to purchase ? Sir FT ,try carry land titles in name of Govt of Msia and Khazanah from Merdeka carpark basement (dark oh) and count your blessing true motorcyclist on the road who are not snatch thieves . For Rakyat wisdom is when you have original land titles ,make sure look as if you are a maid from Soup kitchen with a bag of not land titles but soup .
This is so typical. what they want is contracts. You see, the person making the new road signs and sign boards will charge DBKL say RM1 million per signboard.
And of course, you will see, DBKL will be glad to pay it.
Dig further and you will see its Phesal’s wife’s sister’s son who has got the contract.
This is BN style. This is UMNO style. Everybody knows how it works.
Mark my words, just to upgrade all the road signs and sign boards as well as national maps and peta will cost RM100 million.
Oh yeah, the company printing the new peta and maps also will be some Ministers relative or proxy or Phesals proxy.
Do you know how much it would cost to change the road signboard, road names?
It is all about money. Didn’t know changing road name also can do business.
DBKL I salute you. Better work there than selling cars.
Morons at work. Rest assured, when the bastard govt is dethroned, PR will restore the roads back to their original names.
First is Penang bridge, now all the Jalans are renamed to Sultan’s name?
1. Too free, must show something, to be presented as hard work, and perceived as pandai.
or
2. No projeck, no economi. Occuring too often and everywhere.
Taxi, Taxi..
“Taxi driver, I want to go Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah through Persiaran Tuanku Ja’afar then into Jalan Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, after that circle around Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah”
really shiok sendiri, i don’t know what they want to do,
change to even weird name without any reason, no point!
Don’t worry. These 3 UMNO crony supporters will come in now and tell you that all the names are old and not appropriate for Malaysia. They will tell you UMNO is the bestest and that we must listen to UMNO
The taxi driver will pissed and send you to Istana negara straight.
Only Banana Republics in the world will change names of country and road. This is another one the country does not want. It shows that those in this position is only good for changing names. What is the end result? Chaos!!!! And some a$$hole will be shamelessly laughing and enjoying the suffering of the masses in KL. WTF!!
Bapa borek anak rintik…like proton lah….from perdana >> accord >> accordana…just change name only mah…
tunjukkan bukti proton keluarkan accordana…
kalau nak main kutuk tu, sedap2 hati kau ja…
The rational is very clear!!!
The cousin of a cousin of BN member has a company that provide sign board
Time to make some money for relevant parties, change the new signboards which cost few hundred thousands each. More signboards changed, more money in pocket.
I would understand if they’re trying to avoid confusion between Jalan Duta, Pesiaran Duta, and Lebuhraya Mahameru, Pesiaran Mahameru… but why with longer and even more confusing names? I’ve heard that Mahathir do not want any road to be named with his name… better to avoid a person name or that person might think the road are his / her road.
person 1: woii.. kenapa kau tukar lorong sesuka hati? ko ingat ini jalan bapak ko ke?
person 2: yes, nama jalan ni nama bapak aku!
It makes sense adit san
to update
Clear evidence our government agencies, are creating work to make themselves look busy. When there is more apparent task at hand to be taken care off.
Their should tar the road instead. There’s so much pothole in KL street/highway. Such important task never put in priority instead rename the street and rebuilding the DBKL 2 building. Corruption!
WTF!
wtf?
new name is too long i guess?
Exactly, no point changing ths name . It’s even more confusing and troublesome. Jalan Duta to Jalan Tunku Abdul Halim? Jalan Semarak to Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra?
People will find the short form, just like Jalan TAR is actually Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
meanwhile, a driver trying to read a street name as this is his 1st time through this street.. “jalan tunku abduuuu…..” suddenly BOOOM!!!… he just collide with the front car because he trying to focus reading the long street name.. the end.. seems legit right..
if he’s that stupid, better boom and die
what’s wrong with the old names? Do they soooo much time and money to do this? Better spend to fix all the potholes instead…
Why do they insist on keeping renaming road names. All your GPS and maps would be suddenly out of date.
The original names are part of our heritage.
KL is constantly expanding, if someone wants to have a road named after them, there would be plenty of new roads to name.
The same thing happened to Ipoh some 20 odd years ago when they renamed all the old “heritage” names. Until now, I still don’t know what the “new” names are.
Good question!
Though I am sure the ‘new’ are nice, but what are the benefits of this exercise to the people of KL?
Are there any benefits at all?
Cheers :)
*’new’ road names
As usual to all Malaysian – u tak suka u keluar
tagline you also not origin from this land. SoHigh Hater!
Haahaha… Am surprised there are ppl who still use this phrase… Fyi, sudah lapuk larr (it was never that fresh to begin with) :)
Conceived by dim-witted individuals with no imagination. Kalau nak menyindir pun, biarlah kreatif sikit.
Cheers :)
I’m sure this will reduce traffic jam by 90% and accidents by 60%.
hahahaha… If reduce means, then I will change my taman road name myself!
:)
Cheers :)
could be worse guys. it couldve been Jalan Ibrahim Ali or Jalan Bunkface.
did i just compare Bunkface to Ibrahim Ali? yeah i did
At the time when you squeezing $$$ from people, you want to spend more $$$ on this? What is the benefit for us? Suka-suka can change? Are you gonna change country name also?
Cost us a lot to. If your business is at the affected roads, think of the things you need to change. Addresses of all your stationary, and you have to deal with clients who no longer know where you are.
I wonder if POS Malaysia would have a grand time loosing our mail. Even now, my mail is still getting lost.
Malaysia disappear on the map! Bolehland now!
How great suggestions. Tomorrow malaysia will name it Barisan mational
DBKL got nothing better to do izit?
Now ppl need to re-familiarize the road name.. All the name so damn long..
Why do useless things like renaming all roads to the names of these people? Why not fix your useless pedestrian lights in the city? Why not fix the bottle-neck roads causing jams? I think we need to rename out govt from BN to PR soon
Just change the party name is useless. We must change the seats name in the parliament!
To me BN UMNO is ok though I am a chinese.. The prob is those moron in the hot seats. Thats all. If a peace loving Muslim leader that practices tolerance and corruption free. I will support UMNO. Their hak melayu agenda is their prob. I dont qs their rights because they are TUAN but they dont simply qs or take our rights away. Respect works 2 ways. =)
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Jalan Bapak Engkau!
Err… Why with the sudden change tough?
Is Google Maps and Waze will be updated with the new name scheme?
It will kinda confusing if road and GPS have different name scheme.
Waze will follow suit once the signboards are up, with alternative name as the current ones but will not be shown but still searchable
I Can’t imagine what DUKE will be called now
TAHUKE ? what a joke…PBTs’ in Malaysia are useless…core job never done properly, now got time to rename roads ???
will be called PUKE.
First they aim to spend 300 mil to demolish a newly renovated office and replace it with new one, now this nonsense? How many addresses, gps maps, printed maps have to be updated? From all the beneficial things they could actually do they went on with this, these people in the higher ups, are they born out of incestuous relationships? Cuz they damn well behave like effing retards
Ok… DBKL can rename the road …. But please keep the old name at below the new name..
Example…
Jalan Tunku Abdul Halim
( jalan duta)
Better right..
Agree with the bro….
DBKL should maintain all the Kuala Lumpur roads…
Such like street lights… Traffic lights… Roads conditions…
Roads line faded…
That’s what they’re doing. The old names will be written below the new ones
Looks like their cronies wanna make $$ on new signage along the road
Huh!! As if our roads not confusing enough , now with the names changes, expect more confused commuters especially foreigners
Solaris Dutamas —> SoLaris Tunku Abdul Halim Mas??
Ewwwwww!~~~
This is why Malaysia lacked of history, all history being replaced one by one.
My grandparents used to say the name of the road at their era’s, up to my time, name has been changed…
This is for local’s, what about tourists revisted Malaysia?
I’m looking for Jalan Mahameru, is it Mahameru? no it is lebuhraya sultan iskandar, where the heck is this ? Johor?
wtf for?
DBKL are too free nothing take thing to do……
So will these road be traffic flowy during peak hours with the name change? :)
all these are very famous road lah in KL….why need to change?
Now they change the road name, later they change the building name, state name, country name… till one day they change your surname.
I will never vote for Umno again.
Jalan Duta is such a prestige name for a prestige area in KL. Sad to see such a brand go to waste. I question DBKL’s agenda and the fact that there is no public consultation involved. What can i do to stop this from happening???
When BN fall you get back the old name
just dont vote for BN you should able to get back the old name in 3 years time
All these popular roads… If change to shorter name I won’t mind… But changed to damn long names~!!! Worst from Duta(4 characters) to Tunku Abdul Halim(15 characters) =.=”
this is to boost the oil price. Sesak jalan guna lebih petro.
Dear Datuk Bandar.. Nowadays Malay people always said ‘Simpan kebodohan tu untuk anak cucu kamu’
Sometimesi think DBKL have TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS!. Do repair works on the roads more that change name lah !
What a waste of public funds to change all the signboards!
Tak habis2 kerja nak menjilat!! Dato bandar nak kejar tansri ke nk tukar semua ni? DBKL has always been the municipal run by donkeys but still PJC holds the top position in being a donkey.
actually this has been going on for quite a while. Like Brickfields has been rename to Jalan Tun Sambatan. After a while people will get use to it.
er i still call brickfields as brickfields as well as everyone i know
20 yrs down the road, my parents and their own parents still call and recognise those old colonial-named roads as their original roads. As it should be since they had been thus named for decades, and carries a wealth of history and significance with their very names. It is a sad thing indeed, changing these well-known road names to something else indeed. And for what purpose???
And thats a piece of lost culture. Nothing wrogn it seems. Maybe its not your history or you don’t view it as history worth keeping.
Do you even know the historical importance of Brickfields? And how it got its name?
Maybe I am stupid and not good in memorising name. What is the rationale behind this action? and What do you expect to remember all this similar name? Yes to you it is unique, but to us it is just S I M I L A R N A M E .. I guess they are too free to do all this is it !?
In the year end report you can see why.
“10 Billion use in renaming…”
Road name should be shorter the better. Not to disrespect, are we going to take sejarah class on the road?
Then 5 years later, all change to past PM names. And it repeats again every 5 years…
Actually, they already named our roads to past PM names. Jln TAR, tun razak, etc.
If weeeeeee have nothing better to do…do the simplest things. That’s it!!!.
What used to be Tiger Lane in Ipoh became something else. The same think tank maybe being move to KL!!. All about to pay due respect to ancient, forgotten culture…to always remember them….to maintain their status quo…..blah…blah…blah..
APESAL NAK TUKAR? ADUI, CONFUSED LEH
Brainless idiots doing useless nonsense. If these syiok-sendiri uneducated bumpkins want to know why Malaysia is still a third-world country, they just have to look at themselves. These “leaders” and “authorities” are the ones dragging this country down the drain.
But of course, it’s a tall order to expect them to realize what a bunch of pathetic, inefficient, insecure, history-revising, rent-seeking idiots they are.
Years ago they replaced the name of Jln Mountbatten and the rakyat correctly complained because Mountbatten was really worthy to have a road named after him.
Why the fuck do they need to change the names of the road in 2014 where everything about the roads are already as fucked up as it could be.
And them names are longer than the lifespan of a hamster. stupidest decision ever.
Ini bodoh. Mentaliti dunia ke-3. Negara maju mmg x tukar name jln2 yg dah mmg orang knal dr dulu ni? Mnghabiskan duit je.
Hi All..
Pls be bold in what u all wants to say. Of course the main reason why they change all the famous and main roads in KL is to make Malaysia sound and look more like *ehem.
Those who said i am racist are d*** freaks..
it is sooooo sooo obvious. Clearing off all our history to make way for fake history.
Pls GOD. Save Malaysia.
It might have been better if the British never left. People can say Malaysia as an independent country has achieved lots of achievements but behind those achievements lies all the dirty truth. Just my 2 cents.
Tukar nama jalan, jalan tetap jem jugak… jalan lubang sana sini, line pun tenggelam timbul traffic light kejap cepat, kejap lambat, lampu jalan kejap nyala, kejap xnyala… xdemaknenye laa DBKL and the name also quite confusing laa to people..
Syukurlah, Malaysia aman.
DBKL is now making life miserable not only to KLites but also to outsiders and tourists. Do they think that KLites can find their ways easier with the new road name changes…? Do they expect outsiders and non-KLites to navigate through the city easier without getting lost…? Do they expect all our letters arrive at the correct address without ending up being unsent…? And does DBKL expect that taxi drivers are able to send passengers to the newly-renamed roads without extra charges…? They should instead come up with a proper municipal route numbering system so that motorists won’t get lost even if certain roads are renamed. Bodoh punya DBKL, buat malu je, even Shah Alam can do a lot better as the first (and only) city to have its own municipal route code system.
Hey Jonathan, Jalan Duta new name is EXISTING Agong, not past.
to be fair he was a past Agong b4 :P
hmm…. dbkl made a blunder here… should be TUANKU Abdul Halim, not Tunku…
renamed with even worst name which is long n difficult to remember.. idiot
What the hell…Stop trying to rename the roads as it will hel to reduce the traffic konon!!! Bloody dumbass DBKL that has nothing better to do….. Give those names to the new roads ..not rename them !!!
DBKL, have a talk with the City folks & see if your ideas makes any sense….
I want sg.besi road to change to my name!
it will be very soon, thanks for the reminder:p
Suka-suka hati tukar nama. Pardon me, its not that I’m disrespecting the Sultans. But then, GPS and courier service will have major headache in locating those addresses.
Imagine this, let say u want to go to Jln Sultan Yahya Petra (Jln Semarak) or Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (Jalan Khidmat Usaha), Waze will tell you to go to Kota Bharu or Kuantan airport. If u totally rely on GPS, u won’t realize that mistake until u found yourself queuing at the Gombak-Karak toll..
you think your father’s road ah? change without asking rakyat
It’s make the rakyat more confuse and DBKL is changing the history of certain area. it’s more appopriate that new township be name as the SULTAN name and the rakyat can remember.
haiyo….why la???
buttock icthy izzit!!!
don’t change it when its not broken!!!
what a waste of time. more confusions and eventually revert to the old name…. Bunch of jokers running DBKL
While I don’t really mind the renaming (Jalan Sultan Ismail was Treacher Road after all, as Jon Tan mentioned), the question is…why now? I though we are working to reducing deficits? Need to spend the budget surplus, eh DBKL?
Imagine A saying:” oh, we will go to certain place by using Jalan Sultan.” B: “Which Sultan are you talking about?” LAME…
KL eh.. once you trapped, there’s no way to dig out no matter how fancy the name is… pusing2 tak jumpa jalan keluar.. haiyaa..
I have sugggestion of my own, if DBKL insist on name change:
Jalan Duta to Jalan Tunku Abdul Halim – Jalan Abdul Halim
Jalan Khidmat Usaha to Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah – Jalan Ahmad Shah
Jalan Ipoh (from Jalan Segambut junction to Jalan Pahang junction) to Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah – Jalan Azlan Shah
Persiaran Duta to Persiaran Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin – Jalan Syed Sirajuddin
Jalan Khidmat Setia and Jalan Ibadah to Jalan Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin – Jalan Mizan
Lebuhraya Mahameru to Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar – Jalan Iskandar
Persiaran Mahameru to Persiaran Tuanku Ja’afar – Jalan Tuanku Ja’far
Jalan Semarak to Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra – Jalan Yahya Petra
Drop the ‘Sultan’ or any other gelaran (except when it is very appropriate such as Tuanku Ja’afar)…
Jalan Duta to Jalan AH
Jalan Khidmat Usaha to Jalan AS
Jalan Ipoh (from Jalan Segambut junction to Jalan Pahang junction) to Jalan SAS
Persiaran Duta to Persiaran SS
Jalan Khidmat Setia and Jalan Ibadah to Jalan MAZ
Lebuhraya Mahameru to Lebuhraya Jalan Iskandar
Persiaran Mahameru to Persiaran Ja’afar
Jalan Semarak to Jalan YP
So this is what DBKL has been working on a daily basis rather than FIXING ALL THE POTHOLES!!!!
Protest la apa lagi…
Ini sajalah dungu dungu di DBKL boleh buat.
Makan gaji buta … kerja macam celaka!
If i wanna go jalan ipoh in the future using GPS.. i’ll never be able to find it.. coz I wont be able to remember the new name, which i will need to key in to go to jalan ipoh… just great!
slowly abolishing and replacing it with malay/islamic names, just like they remove any part of history books that involves chinese or indians during the early days of malaysia history. ain’t it obvious?
Nope, don’t be racist. Indian and Chinese who really contributed to the country has a road named after them.
lol don’t be ridiculous and played the race card. are you blind there’s a bunch of road named after chinese and indian or even british colonial names. don’t go to that part dude
There is no justification or benefits with the name change. The change of signs itself is a huge waste of money and add to the fact most businesses have to change their addresses and map ASAP.
Jalan Duta and Jalan Ipoh itself are big and well-known names, is like changing the name of Nurburgring or Abbey road. And as an added opinion, not to insult the malay way of naming but the road names are now longer, try remembering that!
Stupid, gonna be nightmare for tourists.
Waste time and confusing.
so, with these powerful names of our kings, the traffic shall be smoother than ever…LOL…
buatlah apa yg patut dibuat…isshhh..bodoh betul
with all due respect, these names are so mouthful, it is very impractical.
example: many still refer the 2nd Penang bridge as 2nd Penang Bridge, what is the full name again? erm…. wait let me google.
imagine this:
Hey Taxi, I need to go to Jalan Du… oh no wait, let me google.
yer, pakai nama Raja dan Sultan dan Yang Di-pertuan Agung…hakikatnta kita xda identiti….myusahkan…xda kerja lain ker..jalan dalam bandar buruk, jam sana sini…bodoh bedengung
How’s this for a conspiracy theory. Almost all roads lead up to PWTC and it so happened that today is the start of the UMNO General Assembly. Coincidence?
A road name should be limited to maximum two words for easy to remember.
There’s no use of renaming. I see more inconvenience and wasting of public funds to change signages.
There’s no benefit in changing except inconvenience and wasting of public funds.
For fu*k sake!! (that’s all i can say)
Fengshui maaa… after dis jamm tarak…
Blady Shiit!
My Papago GPS map device can’t find the new road names.
Some people need to reprint latter heads, name cards, change address, FCxK lah.
DBKL buat keje apa kat ofis? kasi susah rakyat atau kasi senang rakyat.. benda x rosak buat apa pi kcau.. elok elok jln mahameru, semua pun tau.. jalan duta, taxi driver tau camne nak pigi.. ini kasi tukar sultan sana, tuanku sini.. ooi, masa byk ke? naik taxi cakap pun susah.. keje jilat menjilat nie kurang kan la.. kita pun nak cari makan.. jgn kasi susah kat kite.. nanti turun padang demo, cakap kite tak sayang negara walhal yg buat susah dulu, dbkl start jugak..
Demo kat Jalan Tunku Abdul Halim….say what? Where is it? Nak buat demo pun confuse tak tahu kat mana? Hahaha
I’m opposed to modify road name !
aiyoooo also want to complaint about this? come on.. chill ok
Complete waste of taxpayers money. Also completely brainless suggestion, wasting time and making things far more inefficient.
Typing the road name on an address, GPS navi is gonna be so much more hassle as it’s new and confusing as well as much longer.
Where and what in any way possible is this beneficial???
I guess it has been a productive year for them. Made so many changes.
stupid….like nothing to do…..can i ask u (DBKL)…wat the point rename????can deduce JAM??can Make economics better???it jz make UR DBKL pocket MOney Only
wtfisthisshat?! is dbkl too free and has nothing better to do?
why renaming it while it had been used for a long time ago? dbkl you’re making the people confusing with those names where its not necessary and meaningless.
very knn wasting time and our money!
Another scheme to make money. Every time they change the road name, dunno how much money being dumped into making new road signs. Of course, citizens will complain so they will change back to the original names. New road signs had to be done again since the old ones had been turned into scraps. One more time to make $$ for the cronies. Remember Jalan Alor turning into Jalan Kejora and then turned back to Alor? Exactly what is happening now la!
may be dbkl should changes these names to Jalan Kit Siang, Jalan Karpal Singh, Jalan Theressa Kok; then all of those moron here will shout ” Yes! You’ve done a great job DBKL!”
do not make this about race please
I would think twice of having my name put in to replace these long standing historical names.
The public outcry and repercussions is alone enough to warrant a a request for my name to be withdrawn.
I wonder how would the Malay rulers feel if their names are being mired in such controversies.
ISA…Don’t mess with them.
P.s. Migrate.
Think I would have to keep a note in my car just in case I forgot the names. Damn bloody long and confusing.
Funny, Wilayah Persekutuan is a Federal State and names like these are out of place.
They rename the name with Agong’s name.
To claim they are the best ever rakyat’s for Tuankus
To bodeks and claim they are superloyal and the only care about Royals.
To claim they are heroes for palace.
But yeah… that’s only the best thing they can do.
By renaming the road name, logically for them, the affect are :
1 – Can reduce traffic jam.
2 – Can avoid road flood.
3 – Can whatever..
Jalan Jangan Main Main la UMNO
do u guys know we can do bangkangan on this? i’m trying to get hold of the Corporate Planning department DBKL to see the bangkangan procedure. lets exercise our rights! we are the bosses.
Bangkang je lebih, bila nak maju haaaaaa?
Good move by DBKL
Many of you have forgotten the culture and history and Malaysia, hence criticizing non-stop on the policies driven out by the government
This move will bring back Malaysians to their fundamentals and remember, reminisce and appreciate the good work done by all these great leaders, and instill a sense of patriotism every time they use these roads, and hopefully will be supportive of the government instead of planning to overthrow them or leave the country
My fellow dear Malaysians, its time to bersyukur and not buat kacau and be a good citizen
Syabas DBKL!
Typical comment from Maserati(Official) aka BN Cybertrooper. Bro, you not fed up ah spreading lies?
How about i change your mother’s name now ? I have a pet name for my left ball, it’s called itchy. I also have a pet name for my right ball, it’s called scratchy. Let’s change your mother’s name to itchy. Since you’re so good, buy one free one, change your father’s name as well to scratchy.
The nation speaks so much about culture, heritage and history. However, they just changed the very basis of history.
You don’t see this happening in developed nations, where heritage and history is maintained and not altered or changed
What hypocrite
True…Oxford street is still Oxford street. I can’t imagine if they change it to Queen Elizabeth Street or Picaddily Street to King Philip Street. Who did approved such an absurd move?
Heck yeah!!! Do you see the Indians changing the Taj Mahal name to one of their emperors?? The Angkor Wat to Cambodia Wat or some other weird name? Obviously NOT..! Those ARE their histories – and so are our original street and road names!
One day when I become the Mayor of KL, I am gonna change back the names of these roads! Hahaha!
Angan-@ngan mat jenin is it?
This only prove themselves as stupid and ‘lebih’ . -end of story –
google map update d?
A sure way of getting at least datukship from sultans of the involved state for the bosses in dbkl. No further comment lah, sendiri faham-faham je lah.
Not agreed with DBKL moved. The name Jalan Duta and Jalan Ipoh are iconic name and part of KL history/legacy. It should be maintain. If really there is a need to change, I will support if we change to more iconic names like P.Ramlee, Left. Adnan, Sudirman and etc. There is no wrong to honour our Sultan but we can do it in a different way maybe a Building and Museum that can dedicate to their achievements.
Changing the name of the road,
Advantage;
– More confusing road user, more petrol sales
– Lost tourist, more earning for taxi driver
– New name, new project to replace all road sign (ripple effects to those sign board supplier company who might be their cronies, million to billion ringgit is ringing here)
– Offices and Company affected on that road need to change address name, increase SSM revenue
– Residential affected on that road need change IC and Driving license address, increase JPN and JPJ revenue (ripple effect, to those ID card supplier company which might be their cronies)
DBKL done such a good move with many ripples effect. 1 Stone 5 Birds.
:) just my two cents
i hope the people who rage about changing the name of the roads are not the same people who was previously supporting the changing of malaysian flag, national anthem etc otherwise they are the mother of hypocrites.
Here take my like
DBKL’s brain full of shits!! Got time please go and clean the drainage as not to cause the city floods.
Dumb move by the BN government that allow DBKL to change the names of those roads.
Keep Calm and Read The Roooooooooooooooad Signnnnnnnnnnnn *WT….*
Why fix something that is not broken?
This new names are long and hard to read.
If they are so bloody free to change the names, why not spend their times on fixing the potholes on the road?
Oh gawd this country`s G is really imbecile!
i can’t imagine during rush hour when they want to announce the traffic jam on the radio! Confirm chaos!!! Really shiok sendiri exercise which involve millions to implement.
Spot on Prof!
undilah lagi BN. hidup Bn! jangan lawan. nnt derhaka kepada bonda yg paling gampang. roSEMAK mansur
jom layan citer v for vendetta. kebangkitan rakyat. hapuskan kezaliman BN. tumbangkan kerajaan korupsi.
penjilat umno BODOH DULU KINI SELAMANYA
really wtf…for what? they are just too free..since got nothing to do, so create this shit…why don’t their change their own name first before do this..really stupid.. all are simple n easy to remember n now…those guys who gv this idea is really the most stupid ppl. in the world..
Efficient government improve traffic condition; brainless government don’t care about traffic congestion and troublesome public transportation, they care more about renaming roads.
Some people just want to watch the world burn
Being respectful to the rulers, possibly can consider the british system… eg Victoria Institution. ie to drop the salutations so that the street names wont be long & similar. Also i remember there was an old decision not to name streets after persons still living .
so they raised our Quit Rent for all these nonsense???
so they raised our Quit Rent for all these???
In his pencen days..
Cucu: Apa kebanggaan atuk masa jadik Datuk Bandar KL dulu?
Ex-Datuk Bandar KL: Atuk tukar nama jalan2 utama Kuala Lumpur kepada nama Raja2 Melayu!
Cucu: Apa nama jalan2 tu Tuk?
Ex-Datuk Bandar : Entah, Atuk pun tak ingat! Kejap je pun Atuk jadik Datuk Bandar. 3 tahun je. Apa boleh sapu, sapuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…!
Cucu : Eh…Atuk Datuk Bandar KL ke ‘Tukang Sapu’?
Ex-Datuk Bandar : Erk…
————
Tamat Episod 2,014
Drama rantaian bersambung ke episod lain, Datuk Bandar KL lain pulak….
I suppose zombie is real. You know why? Cause brains are missing!
Well, I suppose our great-great grandfathers and grandmothers didn’t make a big fuss either when the powers that be 100 years ago changed their road names to Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, Jalan Chow Kit, or Lorong Haji Taib.
Info Traffic this morning.
If you are headed from Jalan Tunku Abdul Halim to Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar, there are slight congestion there as the traffic is building up. And it was reported that there is an accident at Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra which cause slow crawl up to 2km. Motorists are advise to avoid this road and try to use other alternative. Meanwhile, Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah is still clear.
This info traffic is brought to you by DBKL, your trusted council.
What the fish!!!
do you think that they care of history ?.. I think not…they never bother about history…history will drive this nation forward…we have new highways and elevated roads coming…just name this new highways/roads after those names…
DBKL should make good the road first, cover all potholes and make sure repair works are correctly done.
Seriously, while there are still many issues faced daily by fellow citizens and still unattended, yet they got the brain to do this ‘renaming the roads’ project !!!!
Definitely due to cronies screaming for project…
I rather prefer the old name to guide people since easy to remember or to recall, lets the new name for the next generation
I was practically born and raise near one of those street my whole life. When they decide to change the name to the name of the Sultan ,I was a bit surprise, also a bit disappointed and definitely it will cause lot of hassle for our GPS system,address changing, Waste Tax payers money, blablabla and many more..but when i Look back at the name of the road, it was name one of the Sultan who recently passed away and his Contribution towards the administration of Justice is just…Magnificent. So i gave some thought about it, its not the name is the problem its the ‘non creative self centred saman king control’ of the local authority who got nothing better to do. So i have no problem with the name, but please seek opinion and mandate from the people before doing it. In fact sebagai rakyat berperintahkan Raja, adakah kebenaran telah didapatkan untuk menamakan jalan tersebut atas nama Tuanku? Did HRH agreed to such act? I believe HRH will know such hassle, we want don’t to remember them as someone causing us trouble just because we can’t access to our GPS System :/
Daulat Tuanku.
An unnecessary move.
I think even the dbkl officers will take longer months to clock into their brain for the new roads
How come when someone agrees with the government they are accused or pro-BN?
“Government is not always right and opposition is not always wrong.”
Pity, you have a great country, failure to understand this concept makes M’sians bunch brainless morons.
Hey Neutral.
Nothing WORST than being a fence sitter. Time has long passed to choose your side.
“How come when someone agrees with the government they are accused or pro-BN?”
Because, and assuming that you knew this fact since you have the interest to dish out this comment, or in case you don’t know this for whatever reason : Since this country was born, government is BN, BN is government.
So, since Day 1 till now, if someone agrees with the government, it’s right to say that they are pro-BN. Failure to understand this concept makes you a hypocritical brainless moron.
Secondly, there is nothing wrong with anyone understanding this, regardless which party is sitting as majority in the parliament/cabinet : “Government is not always right and opposition is not always wrong.” . We understood that, just like how you know as much about your ABCs. Sorry to disappoint you that Malaysians don’t qualify to be your “bunch of brainless morons”.
And then then roads remained in bad condition.
Daulat Tuanku!
wasting public money..better use it to upgrade roads
Plans are underway to change Malaysia’s name to Darussunnah or Dawlah Asshafi-eyah. No jokes. My uncle who works for Putrajaya has confirmed it.
The name of Georgetown in Penang will be changed to Jalan Tan Sri Datuk Haji Ahmad Fahim. Kota Bharu will be re-named Kandahar Baru.
The old names are much better than new names.Imagine asking a taxi driver for directions! The names are easily forgettable unlike the old names hence more confusing for tourist.
They remove the petrol subsidy for these kind of “economy” development?
We are going to do into genius book…oh..i mean guinness book of record for the longest road name signages. malayisia boleh….malaysia boleh…malaysia boleh…
Dear Datuk Phesal….APESALLL nak tukar nama ni????
Tak payah tukar la, unless
better name with shorter name overall.
Why want to waste money to prefer longer name instead.
Sad to see the road name change the citizen’s going through tough times. Now somebody going to make money for the change in the road signs. With respect to all the current and past Agongs, the name of the roads must be user friendly. Anyway god save Malaysia.
1. Many will be affected especially those living along these roads. Yet, if once a regular road user; whether there is any change or not, you will still drive along the same roads when you need to, with a 90% possibility that you will still use the same old name.
2. Remembering the route you take is easier than the road name, I think.
3. When Jalan Pahang was changed to Jalan Tun Razak in the early 80’s, was the roundabout supposed to change too? I can’t recall, cos I still call it Bulatan Pahang or Pahang roundabout today. Do I care if there is a signboard? Obviously I didn’t ….
4. Go ahead and change it to any sultan’s name; we’d probably be cursing their names when stuck in traffic jams
5. Someone up there suggested to take out the ‘Sultan’ from the road names. Fine by me!
At least when I go zig-zag slowly along that road, and another driver asks me, “Hello? Your father’s road aar?”, I can reply “Nope! It’s my road!!” cos my name is Mizan!
Lastly, I would like to request Jalan Belakang Mati to be changed to Jalan Ibrahim Ali because he f**ks everything and anything!
Can we have Jalan Autobahn for this time?
mana “Jalan UMNO”, “Jalan Najis”, “Jalan MCA”, “Jalan Perkasa”???
There’s a jalan umno in perlis…yes check it out
Whiners, whiners everywhere…
Drowining in a sea of whiners.
I wonder if anybody complain when Lebuh Sungai Pinang were changed to Persiaran Karpal Singh?
No i believe… cause is ppl. gv it to him… no need for me to say much.. cause everybody know it what he had well done n sacrifice for the ppl…
So our Kings of ol’ don’t deserved a road named after them eh? Not saying Karpal Singh don’t deserved a road named after him tho’. They can named even 2 road after him…..Oh wait…they did…..Persiaran karpal Singh 1 & 2.
I understand the anger if the road were change to current present BN leadears like Najib, Muhyiddin etc etc…or even old leadears Like Mahathir or Anwar even….
But its named after our Kings…..
Some say its a wastage. But when they did it in Penang its not…Same shit, different songs aja…
BN = PR….dua dua sama saja….
Our HRH have more contribution to this country than Karpal Singh. If you know a royal family really close, you know their contributions towards taking care of orphans, hospitalized children etc. One of my kampung folk received help from a royal family for his son who had to undergo operation. They paid for everything but it never made the news because the royal family never intended to garner attention.
all is about money only..
change sign board…change everything…
and yet.. ntg was complaint about the road name then suddenly change
driver will take additional to read the st*pid signboard.. chances of having accident increase by X percent…
traffice news reporter will take longer time to report news (related to accident)… efficiency drop by Y percent..
These seems counter productive…
Whats the big deal about changing names of roads? They can name it Jalan Anything You Want for all we care.
The real problem is majority of the road signs are hidden by trees. Only in Malaysia boleh lah. The people who install the road signs either have no eyes or no brains or both. Or the workers who plant trees on roadsides and dividers. Mana ada akal.
This is so stupid. People have been living here for decades and have all along used those names. How you expect everyone to remember new names?
Why not change KL to another name as well? Bandar Raja perhaps? Royal City. Sounds like a pretty good name.
I want to change DBKL name. Any suggestion?haha
Wish I could laugh but thinking about the implications of this seemingly simple exercise just makes me furious.
Should someone ask what is the name of the road you are going to take, you are going to get it right at the beginning. It is Jalan Sultan something……..
The citizens are asked – forced – to tighten the belt with all the new taxes and subsidy withdrawals to enable DBKL to do THIS at this time ? These people don’t lack the brains -they just do not have the ‘hati perut’ or fear of God.
Saya masih suka menggunakan nama yg lama sebab diantaranya Jalan Gurney masih dibibir walaupun tukar ke Jln Semarak kini nama baru lagi. Kalau tukar nama jalan upgrade sekali struktur jalannya yang tidak melambangkan Kuala Lumpur sebagai Ibu Negara
Lebih sesuai tukar nama2 jalan di Putrajaya.
ya saya setuju…tapi kat putrajaya x famous + dia org takut nanti tersilap panggil, malu i…tak baik kan..saya ni menteri tahu..
Such a super idiot stupid thing done by the illegal BN govt.
this and the hamid guy proposing to filter the internet go to show how incapable and irrelevant our government officers are.
No point naming the roads with grand names if the roads are in bad condition, full of pot holes, damaged, accident prone, etc.
I mean, no point calling your son HANDSOME, but his face is damn ugly.
Again, and as usual….the GOVT is always about “style” but zero substance.
Remember this?
World class infrastructure, 3rd class mentality and maintenance…
It’s a bodek rebranding.
A good excuse to spend money, help economic running
i would rather see DBKL clean up the roads than renaming them. wonder what is the cost of renaming the roads. redirect the costs to cleaning the roads that would be a better thing to do.
i for one will use the old names as long as i use those roads.
Where is jalan najib or jalan rosmah
Lebih
WTF? Why can they spend money on things that REALLY matter?!?!?!?! There are so many new roads being constructed, go name those!! Changing an existing famous road name is completely not making sense!!
Very brilliant! Bravo! malaysia boleh!
ARE they trying to make themselves seems important by naming the road with their name? ridiculous lah
This is disturbing and reminiscent of the Jalan Alor. We have to change letterheads, biz cards no to mention GPS.
Let me put it this way.
The second penang bridge is not name Penang Bridge 2/Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang which would have been way much easier like the first Penang Bridge. They preferred to name it Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge.
So yea I am not surprised at all for the govt to change common names like Jalan Duta or Lebuhraya Mahameru into other names. Its just a matter of time really.
What I can tell you though is that locale language of using those names will never go away. If you ask a young Penangite of the location of Greenlane, they will know where it is even though it has been renamed Jalan Masjid Negeri since I was born.
So I am not so bothered. The only problem will arise is with the new people that will be staying over as well as the GPS like Waze and especially Google Maps. haiz…..
I don’t have any beef with the Sultans of this country or dare I say it a problem with DBKL changing the street names in honour of the Sultans. but was this really VITAL? Of course this is very obvious question and many Malaysians pose this question, but has anyone personally met or know a Malaysian that can that can name the Sultans of every state? Or even name the last 4 Yang di-Pertuan Agongs of this country? I personally haven’t. Is this some kind of hidden agenda to make Malaysians remember our fellow Sultans this time? :-/
this is ridiculous its gonna cost lots of money and inconvenience to the rakyaat……dont they bring this to parliament for debate before a decision is made to change the name of the roads….i smell a hidden agenda for this crazy move to change the name of the roads that we are so used to.
The longer the name, the harder it is to remember them. Subang Airport still sticks in my mind rather than the long sultan something something… Ridiculous!
Great! Maybe now or the next generation will be able to remember Sultans names…
without changing the name how is DBKL gonna spend the money on changing the sign boards, then how are they gonna come out with ridiculous pricing of a few thousand or a few hundred thousand to changing the sign boards…
Tukar nama pon mau pening2 ke..? Adoilah
Why don’t you consider changing highway name instead of changing road name in town. exp Seremban highway to Sultan of Negeri Sembilan Name highway ?
Better put JKR’s staff who ‘turap’ the road instead others name! What a waste of people money :(
Hey DBKL!! Dont change the name yet..Im still on the road!!
SPR must come in to this issue.
why spr got to come and check that out.. meh… got to give bribe me to have your name on the road.. then should check jln karpal then .. such an A**
The people here are really sick. Pr changes the road names to its leaders who have not served the country but the party. Theres no fuss. DBKL changes the road name to Agong’s name who have served us they make such a big hue and cry.
These people are pure and simple racists.
heck.. like … LGE.. and kapal got a major thing that they have done..
What a load of bollocks! Why are we governed by a bunch of cunts? Fact is you don’t need to be partisan to any party – they are all muppets.
Did we vote for them? Is it our fault? Not when democracy here is actually a thinly veiled attempt of vote rigging. At the very least, please attempt to not make it so blindingly obvious lah…..
One can only hope but it will take at least a generation for real change to happen….
majority only butt hurt Chinese -nvely comment on this move… wonder if the road change to you lim guan eng.. or chin peng road.. hahahahah
In a country of 29 million, changing a road from the simple British Colony’s style of Green Rd to Jalan Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, you know how much your county loses a year? At least $5 million for that road, when you have millions of people suffering time & stress writing, typing, saying, remembering the stupid road names. And there are thousands and thousands of Malaysian roads like that, so the loss to your country probably in thousands of millions = billions. No simple, common sense and wisdom for efficiency, expediency & success!
That’s why the world has very little respect and use for the Bahasa Language, it put the Country back by decades just for selfish ethnic pride and arrogance. Then you have all the Tuns, Tan Sris, Datuks, Datos, Pehin, Padukas……Bill Gates & Warren Buffet made $$ honestly and gave almost half their wealth in tens of US$ billions to charity, even Soros whom Dr MM disparaged gave hundreds of millions. They address each other as Bill, Warren, George. Not even a ‘Sir’. What a global laughing stock you are. How much money made with hard work and how much given to charity?
Hear hear! That’s one of the best retorts yet mate. They might as well go back to living on trees and the other ethnic minorities can continue developing themselves in other places….
It may be good to rename the roads in honor of the monarchs, except for the black sheep monarch whose criminal actions damaged the monarchy.
Raja adil raja disembah, raja zalim raja disanggah!