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Soil test for proposed LRT route is being carried out in Subang Jaya. I have been waiting for months for an official reply from Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad via MPSJ since the LRT briefing in September and I have requested MPSJ to notify my office for any update(s) on this issue. I have received none. The Ministry of Transport should be more forthcoming about the LRT plans in Subang Jaya.

I have been receiving complaints about the closure of lanes in the morning rush hour by traffic policemen from Subang Jaya leading into the Federal Highway. This has resulted in massive backlog in USJ. I have conveyed this to the traffic police several times. They have taken note of it but would not change their current plan without studying it first. I don’t understand this, but traffic police is not obliged to take instructions from me. I have conveyed the problems faced by the people here to them, now it’s their duty to respond accordingly.

As for traffic studies by IKRAM and MPSJ on Persiaran Tujuan, I have repeatedly informed MPSJ on the severity of the problem and attended Infrastructure Committee Meetings at MPSJ to convey my dissatisfaction about the delay of these studies. I was at a press conference yesterday highlighting this problem. Read about it here.

These are only some of the many difficulties faced by the new state administration with federal agencies and some civil servants. If only all civil service agencies are as effective in all their duties as the Perak State Secretary when he chased the Pakatan MB out from his office in less than a day!