While the works ministry (KKR) has stated that RM4 billion is required to repair all damaged roads in the country, it has only received nearly half of that amount due to limitations faced by the government, said deputy works minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan.
He said that the ministry has received nearly RM2 billion to carry out the necessary road repairs, but more is needed to fully accomplish the task, as Bernama reports. “My ministry always hopes that we will get more allocation each year to repair damaged roads as there are many that are ‘old’ and require re-tarring,” he said.
He said that the ministry had previously suggested that any collection made by the road transport department (JPJ), including that for road tax and speeding summonses, be handed to the ministry to use for road repairs, but the suggestion never received any feedback.
“If there is any suggested additional taxes from heavy vehicles as mooted by certain parties, they should be handed to the finance ministry or the transport ministry,” he said, adding that rainy weather and overloaded heavy vehicles were the two main causes behind damaged roads in the country.
Earlier this month, works minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi said that since the ministry did not have a full allocation, road repairs would have to be done in stages. He said that KKR has identified roads that are in critical condition through its existing database, and repairs will be carried out based on urgency.
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Time PRU takde plk sembang psl bajet ni. Semua onnnn sajoooo. Skr ada de alasan tak nk tunai janji
nak tunggu PRU, lama lagi.
So doakan ada PRK banyak-banyak. Tak kisahlah sebab wakil rakyat mati ke, lompat parti ke, letak jawatan ke, kena masuk penjara ke.
Confirm laju jalan berturap.
No need to wait for next PRU just mass petition for DYMM to bubarkan parliament right now! We will kick out PH the next day and make sure they never come back for another 60 years! Power to rakyat Malaysia!
Problem here is that quite good road they still go ahead to do mill & pave while the bad ones leave it guess cronies are aplenty to do easy work for maximum claim while the difficult ones wait for FM or others to do.
Super agree with that
That is why you don’t overpromise by telling people to abolish the toll highway.
If 2 billion not enough to repair roads then pass it to me. I will get the job done properly. Bagi lah tender kepada mereka yang betul2 pandai repair. Stop giving tender to those that have bad track record in repairing roads. Black list all companies that do a bad job repairing in the past, tampal work that only last 1 year must all be ban.
sembang bikin bimbang…. poodahhhh
why so stingy to share, you guys profited so much from selling number plates
Most of the time, the resurface was done to the good working condition road but the bad one was left intact and do only patching with shoddy work.. look at kinrara, puchong..so many bad road at taman perumahan but they resurface the wrong one on the other side of the road…
get all these property developers to pay. whenever there is construction of a condo, the roads are bad.