Transport minister Anthony Loke will seek to meet the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, to offer further explanation on the LRT3 Shah Alam Line project.
This comes after the Sultan released a statement on Wednesday crediting former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for starting the LRT3 project and current PM Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for carrying it through. The royal also criticised former finance minister Lim Guan Eng and his adviser Tony Pua for their roles in cost-cutting and downsizing the project.
Loke, who is also DAP secretary-general, said that the Sultan’s rebuke is accepted openly and will be used as room to explain the facts and the government’s stand on the project. He said that the government’s aim was not to cancel the LRT3 project, but to rationalise costs and save money.
“Today, there was a joint statement from Lim Guan Eng and Tony Pua about the facts that needs to be brought up. So the rebuke we will accept and I will try to seek an audience with Sultan Selangor to offer an explanation. It’s not a question of is trying to cancel the project, just the rationalisation of costs,” he said in Muar yesterday night, reported by Astro Awani.
The long-awaited LRT3 Shah Alam Line was launched on Sunday and opened to the public on Monday. The RM16.63 billion 37.8-km line runs from Johan Setia in Klang to Bandar Utama in PJ, and there are 20 stations serving large population centres in Klang, Shah Alam and Subang. Construction of five reinstated stations will start later this year to make it 25 stations in total. Free rides till July 31.
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1. when something goes right , credit goes to the PM Najib and Anwar. but if something wrong , its the fault of DAP FM not the fault of the current PM who was Mahathir ?
2. by using hard negotiation tactic to remove few stations then add back the stations ,ultimately PH was able to bring down the overall cost .
3. why is it ok when tulsan advise to cancel Selangor Sukma to save money, but not ok to cut cost for the LRT ?
The trouble is they didn’t really save cost with their move. Coaches and terminals were downgraded, and at the end of the day the cost didn’t differ much from the earlier plan’s. With ECRL the cost became higher. Ditto now when they want to revive HSR. Same thing happened with Pan Borneo where they stopped the project to supposedly revise the costs but it eventually ended up being more expensive.
hypocrite, its ok for himself to cancel Selangor Sukma to save money, but its wrong for DAP to save money by reducing LRT stations?
the worst thing is we can’t even vote out this unelected bum
If I did nothing wrong, I just need to explain to Malaysians that voted them to help us managing Malaysia. Your obligation is reporting to PM. No need to do any extra!
but the selangor guy will ask you to read rukunegara and he will point to the sentence which says “loyalty to the king”
3 coach only mana cukup! I commute daily to KL via LRT I know la!
johor is different from KL
because federal gomen weak, many tulsans now dare to become more arrogant and overstep their boundaery. S&S borneo also dare to steal petronas assets and sabotage petornas. N9 also rebelled against their own MB. the only way to solve this is bring back TunM become PM11.
The cost-cutting is a bit too far. Why?
1. Home-type Khind wall fans (rather than giant fans used in MRT platforms)
2. Main stations like Bandar Utama are not air-conditioned (at least at the entrance gates).
3. Lack of coverage and accessibility to main CBD districts.
4. No underground stations in key strategic areas (e.g. Dato Menteri station is too far from Plaza Alam Sentral & dataran Shah Alam, which should be the central point).
5. Long intervals (8 mins) during peak hours?
cantonese said it’s literally “suzhou poop” left by PM7
On top of high costings etc, why such a short line (Klang to BU) need to have so many stations (20 now + 5 later) & some without parking at all? A short 37km line & took long, > 1 h to reach end to end! If all 25 stations ready, the train will stop every 1.4km & how many minutes increase/time wasted in Rakyat time?
LRT3 isn’t for you then…
Putar belit bs from DAP macam biasalah. When shit happens blame someone else. Lie, bullshit, cheat and all the suckers still buy their crap.
LRT3 is now already in operation & thus sh*t definitely did not happen. After the construction of the 5 reinstated LRT3 stations, there will still a savings of RM9.72 billion from the original cost. In addition, there is the liquidated ascertained damages due to project delays, of RM2.73 million per day, to be paid to the government by the LRT3 main contractor, Setia Utama.
ironic when the political system, royalty, judiciary, military , GLCs, and basically every institution at state and federal level is controlled by M.
but C iss somehow to blame
Your priority in country administration is to answer to us that voted you to work for us.