Kinrara centre of it all

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all our muslim friends and happy holidays to all.

In the Star paper today, Kinrara will be seeing some major changes in the near future.

Coming our way will be a Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya highway (SKIP). 

According to the report the construction is supposed to start end of next year and expected to finish in 2016.

The new Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya highway

From the map I can see that the highway will start someway next to Giant supermarket in BK4, and heads towards Serdang direction. It will then split into two at the middle, with one heading towards Putrajaya while the other towards Sri Kembangan.

Although there are not much details yet, I imagine they will upgrade the road in front of  Kinrara golf course to make it part of the highway, then eventually joining back to Bukit Jalil highway somewhere near Giant supermarket in BK4.

With that highway, there are certainly a few new ramps and road intersections at our area. Is that one of the reasons affecting the LRT alignment that Prasarana is not telling us? It could be.

It is also funny the report mention the new highway will help to ease the congestion on LDP in front of IOI mall. How is that so I have no idea when the highway isn't linked anyway close to IOI mall at all.

What will happen for sure is, with the new LRT line and highway in the future, all at the Bukit Jalil highway area, Bandar Kinrara will see some of the heaviest traffic congestions in the Klang Valley. I wonder we will be able to move around anymore.

Major highways should be designed to join other major highways (for example North-South-Highway to Kesas, Kesas to North-Klang-Valley expressway, etc) in order not to have bottlenecks. By joining the new highway to the smaller roads in our area is a traffic congestion disaster waiting to happen.

And that's not all. There will be yet another Kinrara-Damansara highway linking our area to Pusat Bandar Damansara in the pipe line according to the report. I have no idea where that highway will join to.

Meanwhile, we are still waiting for a reply on our LRT problems. With all the festive holidays, it could be a while.

"Teh tarik" with Mr. Gobind Singh

About a month ago we were at Mr. Gobind Singh's office discussing about the LRT issue. While we were there, we also complained that since he was elected, he had never really set foot in BK 3. It is about time he should pay us a visit.

So when he mentioned about paying BK 3 folks a visit to have breakfast and “teh tarik”, just to say hello, we gladly accepted the offer.

The day finally came.

Residents paying attention to Mr. Gobind Singh

The meeting was informal and pleasant. Besides the LRT issue, many residents have other grouses like pot holes at our roads, uncleared side walk rubbish, and lack of road side car parks for the apartments.

A resident making a point.

While there is no guarantee all our problems will be solved, Mr. Gobind Singh did promise to look into all the complaints that we have.

The protem committee chairman En. Amin also took this opportunity to pass Mr. Gobind Singh the memorandum to be handed over to our Selangor MB.

Protem committee chairman Encik Amin handling over the memorendum

To me the best thing about the meeting was the walk around of BK 3 to show Mr. Gobind Singh our various problems and the location of  LRT track and station no. 5.

Taking a walk around the neighbourhood

By showing him the exact location of the LRT track and station no. 5 at our green lung, he could really feel how frustrated the residents are with the poor planning by Prasarana.

The LRT track will be right here.  See how close it is to our houses

Station no. 5 will replace all these trees

While it is hard to say what will come out of this, we certainly hope that the next step we take is the right one.

Residents giving their final thoughts.

Now the waiting game continues again. We really hope that Mr. Gobind Singh keeps his words and we get to meet our MB to present our case.

Meanwhile, get yourself ready. When that day comes, please show up in full force to show your support. We will need all the help that we can get.

(p/s: I think using "Mr." as a title to address someone sounded much more approachable and down to earth, instead of "YB". I am sure Mr. Gobind Singh doesn't mind that. After all even the president of United States is also addressed as "Mr. President". No disrespect here.)