KUALA SELANGOR - Pembinaan pembahagian jalan di sepanjang jalan Klang-Teluk Intan adalah langkah terbaik dalam megurangkan kadar kemalangan kerana ia dapat menghalang penguna jalan berkenaan daripada terus menjadi laluan pembahagi sedia ada sebahagai lorong memotong.

Salah seorang pemandu, Mohd Ruzi Abu Hasan berkata, pembahagian jalan ketika ini yang hanya dipisahkan oleh garisan putih sering disalahgunakan oleh pemandu untuk dijadikan lorong memotong bagi pemandu yang kurang sabar.

Kuala Lumpur: Some 30 families in Taman Pelangi, Sentul, suffered their worst flood during Hari Raya Aidilfitri last weekend.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, who visited the area yesterday, said the culverts were not wide enough for quick drain-off of rain water, resulting in the metre-high flood on Saturday.

Samy Vellu said he had instructed the contractor working on the Duta-Ulu Klang Expressway (Duke) to expand the culverts to at least twice their current width - from 0.7m to 3.1m - in a week to improve drainage.

Kuala Lumpur - Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu mengarahkan kontraktor Lebuh Raya Duta Ulu Klang Expressway (DUKE) memperbesarkan kelubung jalan berhampiran Taman Pelangi dan Kampung Bandar Dalam, Sentul bagi menangani masalah banjir.

 Kontraktor, Malaysian Resources Corp. Bhd. (MRCB) dan Eco Event Management and Consultancy Sdn.Bhd.,  turut diberi tempoh seminggu bermula semalam untuk melakukan projek itu.

Kementerian Kerja Raya mengarahkan kontraktor yang terlibat dalam pembinaan projek lebuh raya Duta-Ulu Kelang (Duke) supaya mempercepatkan pembesaran kelubung untuk menggelakkan banjir berlaku.

Menterinya Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu berkata, konsesi Konsortium Lebuh raya Utara-Timur Kuala Lumpur Sdn Bhd (Kesturi) yang menerajui projek tersebut diberi masa tujuh hari untuk menyelesaikan masalah tersebut, berikutan banjir di kawasan perumahan Taman Pelangi di Sentul semasa Aidilfitri Sabtu lepas.

BANDAR TUN RAZAK - Lampu isyarat yang dibina untuk kemudahan penguna jalan raya di Persiaran Mewah di sini diangap tidak berkesan kerana lalu lintas bertukar menjadi semakin sibuk.

Menurut Ketua Pegerakan Pemuda UMNO Bahagian Bandar Tun Razak, Rizalman Mokhtar, lampu isyarat itu mula diwujudkan sejak pembukaan jalan baru menuju ke Alam Damai.

"Tiga lampu isyarat dibina, pada setiap 50 meter dan pengguna terpaksa menghabiskan masa kira-kira 45 minit untuk sampai ke simpang empat susur keluar ke Lebuh raya Connaught dan menuju ke Lebuh raya Lingkaran Tengah 2.

KUALA LUMPUR: About 20 families in Taman Pelangi, Sentul, had a wet and miserable holiday last weekend. Their homes were flooded because construction on the Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (DUKE), which began early this year, disrupted the normal flow of rain water. 

Resident Arshad Shaari, 41, said there had been minor floods in the area before but since construction began it had become worse.

"The flooding started on Friday after a downpour and continued into Saturday. The water only receded on Sunday," he said.

UALA LUMPUR: The flood woes at SRK Tamil Ladang Bukit Jalil may be over in a few days. 

Immediate action has been promised by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), at the insistence of Natural Resources and Environment Deputy Minister Datuk S. Sothinathan.

The school has been flooded five times in the past month, with waters reaching up to a metre, causing classes and, more importantly, examinations to be disrupted for the 103 pupils. 

The first time the school became flooded was on the second day of the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah examination last month.

HEAVY rains caused part of a retaining wall in Taman Seri Minang, Balakong, to collapse on Tuesday. The backyards of six double-storey houses were affected as a result. 

The incident occurred at around 3pm and brought down the fencing while exposing several underground pipes. 

Resident Loh Chun Liang said prior to the incident, several cracks had appeared on the portion of the wall located near the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) sub-station opposite the first house. 

KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry has approved a RM650,000 allocation to build a new school for pupils of a flood-prone Tamil school in Puchong.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the building plans for the new two-storey school had already been drawn up by the Public Works Department and would have 12 classrooms.

He was speaking after launching Astro's Attam 100 Vagai 3 dance competition at a hotel here.

KUALA LUMPUR-Terowong Pengurusan  Air Banjir dan Jalan (SMART) laluan kearah Seremban akan ditutup selama tiga jam pada pagi Ahad ini untuk latihan kebakaran.

Ia membabitkan dek atas terowong itu dan akan ditutup mulai jam 8 pagi hingga 11 pagi, kata syarikat itu dalam satu kenyataan semalam.

Latihan kebakaran itu membabitkan Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat serta agensi kerajaan.