KUALA LUMPUR: Syarikat konsesi Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP) disyor memenuhi tanggungjawab sosial korporat dengan menawarkan potongan kadar tol memandangkan keadaan kewangannya menguntungkan walaupun laluan terbabit kini dirundung masalah kesesakan dan kemalangan. 

Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed, berkata kerajaan membayar pampasan tunai RM630.5 juta kepada LDP bagi pengurangan dan penyusunan semula kadar tol antara 1999 hingga 2007 manakala kutipan tol sejak tempoh konsesi bermula pada 31 Disember 1996 pula mencecah RM1.28 bilion. 

KUALA LUMPUR - Pembinaan LaluanTransit Aliran Ringan (LRT) di sekitar Lebuhraya Damansara ?Puchong (LDP) mampu mengatasi masalah kesesakan di lebuh raya berkenaan.

Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Ir Mohd Zin Mohamed berkata, kementeriannya akan mengkaji cadangan itu bagi mengatais kesesakan lalu lintas.

"Untukkebaikan rakyat, saya bersetuju dengan cadangan itu dan kita akan bawa perkara ini kepada Unit Perancang Ekonomi dan saya akan maklumkan kepada Kabinet Jumaat ini," katanya selepas merasmikan Galeri Sistem Binaan Berindustri (IBS) di sini, semalam.

IN a matter of three days, the Works Ministry has changed its stand on proposals to ease the congestion on the Damansara-Puchong Highway (LDP) - it now fully supports the development of a light rail transit (LRT) system rather than an alternative highway.

Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed said the construction of the LRT line will be cheaper in terms of capital outlay, especially after considering costly land acquisition.

SEPANG: The plan to build a second highway to reduce the traffic load on the Damansara-Puchong Highway (LDP) has been scrapped, barely a week after its announcement. 

Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed said the highway could cost RM2 billion and the government felt it was better to work on other solutions to end traffic woes on the LDP, including an extension of the Putra Light Rail Transit network to cover the LDP route.

Also, the concessionaire of the LDP, Lingkaran Trans Kota Holdings (Litrak) Bhd, would be asked to work on improving the highway.

PETALING JAYA: Development may be speeding ahead, but traffic is literally still inching forward, if nor coming to a full stop.

The mushrooming of development projects in the Klang valley may be outstripping the pace at which existing infrastructure is being upgraded to cater to a rise in traffic in the area ? and this is a serious cause of concern.

KUALA LUMPUR - Terowong SMART ditutup kepada lalu lintas mulai pukul 4.15 petang tadi berkuatan hujan lebat di kawasan tadahan Sungai Klang/Sungai Ampang.

Menurut Pengarah Pusat Kawalan SMART Ir. Koon Sing bacaan paras air tertinggi Sungai Klang di Jambatan Tun Perak mencecah sehingga 29 meter pukul 4.34 petang manakala paras tebing Sungai Klang di Jambatan Tun Perak 30.24 meter.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kementerian Kerjaraya mensasarkan untuk meningkatkan kualiti dan kuantiti modal insan negara yang berkemahiran tinggi dalam industri pembinaan bagi menggantikan 318,000 pekerja asing yang terbabit dalam sektor itu. 

Menterinya, Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed, berkata modal insan berkualiti tidak semestinya lahir daripada kecemerlangan akademik, malah kini terbukti golongan yang berkemahiran tinggi khususnya dalam rekaan dan pembinaan turut berjaya mengecapi hidup mewah. 

The congestion on the Damansara-Puchong Highway (LDP),has been blamed on the several unexpected and large-scale developments on the stretch in the last five years.

For instance, projects like the Desa Park City, Sunway Syarikat Permodalan Kebangsaan (SPK), Damansara Perdana, Mutiara Damansara, Kota Damansara, Sunway Damansara, Bandar Utama, Kelana Jaya, Dataran Prima, Bandar Sunway and Puchong, Unfortunately, they were without alternative traffic dispersal points.

LDP must come up with incentive plan, says engineer

A CONSULTING engineer has suggested the concessionaire of the Damansara Puchong Highway (LDP) come up with an incentive plan to ease the traffic flow which has reached a critical mass.

"The operator must offer some kind of carrot in order to ease the jam, like providing reduced toll rates for vehicles with more than one passenger," said vice-president of Institute of Engineers Malaysia, Datuk Ir Dr Rashid Maidin.

SEMENYIH - Pembinaan Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban Sdn. Bhd. (Lekas) dilihat bukan sahaja memberi pilihan kepada pengguna tetapi juga mampu memberikan nikmat kepada penduduk di 10 buah kampung di sekitarnya.

Ini kerana Lekas selain memberikan manfaat kepada pengguna lalu lintas yang sentiasa ulang alik dari Kuala Lumpur ke Seremban tanpa `terperangkap? dalam kesesakan jalan raya.

Ia juga menjadi `batu loncatan' kepada proses pembangunan di kawasan itu seterusnya memudahkan pengguna sempena musim cuti perayaan seperti Aidilfitri ini.