About 8,500 handicapped people will be given PLUSMiles loyalty cards with a pre-paid value of RM100 each by PLUS Expressways Bhd as part of the concessionaire?s corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme.
Each card is equipped with a Touch ?N Go feature to pay for tolls, selected parking bays and purchases at participating food outlets.
KUALA LUMPUR: The government expects to halve the construction sector's dependence on foreign labour when the Industrialised Building System (IBS) is fully adopted by 2010.
Works Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Zin Mohamed said the new system would reduce manual labour needs by up to 80 per cent and at the same time boost demand for skilled workers.
"There are 320,000 foreign workers with green cards but once we fully migrate to the IBS we are confident we can bring it down to at least 160,000," he said after the launch of the national IBS conference here yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR 13 Mac - Pembukaan Plaza Tol Duta di Lebuh Raya Duta-Ulu Klang (DUKE) pada bulan Mei ini dijangka mampu mengurangkan kesesakan di Lebuh Raya Lingkaran Tengah 2 (MRR2) khususnya di sekitar Ampang.
Pengarah Projek Konsortium Lebuh Raya Utara-Timur Kuala Lumpur Sdn. Bhd. (Kesturi), Chua Soo Kok berkata, ini kerana lebih 40,000 pengguna dari MRR2 dijangka menggunakan plaza tol berkenaan.
KUALA LUMPUR- Langkah menangguhkan kenaikan kadar lima Lebuh Raya yang sepatutnya berkuatkuasa hari ini, membuktikan kerajaan memahami masalah rakyat dalam menghadapi krisis ekonomi.
Pelbagai pihak yang dihubungi Berita Minggu juga berharap kerajaan mengkaji kadar kenaikan tol antara 0.68 sen sehingga 50 sen yang dianggap tinggi dan pada masa sama, mahu kenaikan ekonomi stabil bagi mengurangkan beban rakyat.
KUALA LUMPUR: The toll hike for five major highways has been deferred indefinitely to ease the burden of the people during the economic slowdown.
The cabinet decided on this respite for motorists during its meeting yesterday, a day after Works Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Zin Mohamed had announced the new toll rates, which would have taken effect tomorrow.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Government has revoked its decision to approve toll increases for five highways which were to have taken effect tomorrow.
The decision was made at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yesterday.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is in Pattaya, had called for a review of the decision following a public outcry.
Najib said the toll increases would be put off indefinitely.
SEREMBAN 3 Mac - Jalan utama Seremban-Mantin di Kilometer 53.8 dekat sini terpaksa ditutup berikutan tanah runtuh setelah hujan lebat melanda kawasan tersebut petang ini.
Kejadian yang berlaku pada pukul 4 petang itu menyebabkan keseluruhan laluan tersebut diliputi runtuhan tanah dan pokok tumbang sekali gus menghalang semua kenderaan.
Pengarah JKR negeri, Ir. Dr. Roslan Taha yang berada di tempat kejadian memberitahu, tiada kenderaan melalui kawasan itu ketika tanah runtuh.
KUALA PILAH 3 Mac - Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) negeri dan syarikat konsesi Selia Selenggara Sdn. Bhd. kini bertungkus lumus memulihkan cerun yang runtuh akibat hujan lebat semalam di Kilometer 14.7 Jalan Seremban-Kuala Pilah di Bukit Putus di sini hari ini.
Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Bertindak Infrastruktur, Air, Tenaga dan Telekomunikasi negeri, Datuk Ismail Lasim berkata, laluan itu kini hanya dibenarkan untuk kenderaan ringan selain bas penumpang yang berulang alik dari Seremban ke Kuala Pilah.
Seremban - Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) telah mengenal pasti tiga lokasi kritikal yang diancam tanah runtuh di Jalan Bukit Putus - Kuala Pilah dengan kerja-kerja mengukuhkan cerun akan dijalankan selepas musim hujan sekarang berakhir.
Pengarahnya, Dr. Ir. Roslan Md. Taha memberitahu, tiga lokasi paling kritikal ialah di Kilometer (Km) 14, Km14.7 dan Km15.3 di jalan tersebut.
"Untuk kerja pembaikan ini, kami mencadangkan pembinaan tembok penghadang dengan pemasangan besi cerucuk.
THERE will be temporary disruption of street lighting along certain sections of the Duta-Ulu KelangExpressway (Duke) due to vandalism and theft.
Highway concessionaire Konsortium Lebuhraya Utara-Timur (KL) Sdn Bhd said the affected routes are:
between 1.4km and 2km (west bound) after Jalan Kuching interchange heading towards Jalan Duta toll plaza (from NKVE)
at Karak interchange, between 1.1km towards 1.8km (towards Bandar Dalam exit)
between 2.8km and 3.8km (north bound) towards Greenwood / Karak interchange
