No station no. 5 in BK3 ?

Yes! There is no more station no. 5 in BK 3.

In a "teh tarik" session with Mr. Gobind Singh this morning in BK3, he confirmed that there will not be a station no. 5 in BK3.

However, only half of the issues we proposed are settled. There is still no conclusion yet on the realignment of LRT away from the green lung area.

We have suggested a few proposals and the discussion is still on as to the best alternative to get it done. Right now the track will still be as per the original design, running along on the green lung area. Mr. Gobind Singh has assured us they will look into all angles, discuss and come up with the best possible solutions.

Meanwhile, we can at least know that BK 3 will remain the way it is, a quiet and peaceful community.
 

MPSJ coming to Bandar Kinrara

Upon urging by BK3 Protem Committee, Gobind Singh has finally fulfilled his promise to get MPSJ to our place to hear our concerns.

 

There will be a dialog session held at BK2 Multipurpose Hall to discuss the ongoing issues affecting BK2 & BK3 residents. 

                         Venue: BK2 multi purpose hall

                         Date: 24th. September, 2011

                         Day: Saturday

                         Time: 9:30 am

Please pass the word around to other BK2 & BK3 residents about this dialog which is crucial for us as a community to ensure that our BK2 & BK3 environment is protected.

 

We should voice out our concern over : 

- illegal banners that make our environment so ugly and pathetic.

- cleaners who are inefficient in cleaning our environment.

- upkeep of playground and football padan.

- security issues.

- illegal hawker stalls that are mushrooming.

- new playground opposite Merak Apartment should be properly planned

- 17 years the roads leading to all our houses are badly damaged and no upgrading has been done before.     You see patches here and there. 

- and any other issues our residents have.

 

SKIP HIGHWAY

One major thing is the SKIP Highway that will start from Giant and hit straight through BK6 passing by BK Golf and joining Serdang to Putrajaya. 

Check out STAR online and our post on this news.   

Not only we have LRT, we have also SKIP Highway – BK6 residents should be very concern as the highway partly elevated and some points the existing road will be converted to highway. 

If you study the map, something fishy is going on.  It starts from Giant but coming from where?  BK1 & BK2 road from Army Camp??? 

We suspect it will come from LDP which is what Prasarana always say that they cannot divert the LRT tracks cos in future LDP will extend their highway. 

One can go nuts with the authorities. 

Banners will be up by MPSJ at strategic locations this week.  

Meanwhile, our LRT issue now is up to the state level. We are still waiting for the outcome.

 

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.)

Voices of BK 3

So this little girl Fatimah approached me, handed me a piece of paper. It reads:

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Don't wait, sign your online petition here now!

Signature campaign continues tomorrow 24th July, 2011 4:30pm

We are preparing our memorandum to be submitted on 28th. July, 2011.  

Time is running out, and we need as many signatures as possible from BK 3 residents.

 Don't wait, sign your online petition here now!
(please include your IC number, it will not be visible to others)

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We need your signatures.

We know collecting signatures is hard work but we believe if our voice and support are not strong enough, we will not be able to pull it through.

There will be a walk around BK 3 by our supporters to collect signatures in the evening tomorrow. We also need volunteers to help us. If you can help please meet us at:

     Location: BK 3 primary school front gate (near Merak apartment)
     Date: 24th July, 2011, Sunday
     Time: 4:30pm

 Don't wait, sign your online petition here now!

(please include your IC number, it will not be visible to others)

From there we will split and walk around BK 3 to collect the signatures. 

See you guys there.

Meeting MPSJ didn't get us anywhere, but there is a silver lining.

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To cut a long story short, we are back to square one again after four months of back and forth discusssion with Prasarana.

Meeting with MPSJ and Prasarana

Even though the meeting was held during a work day, many BK 3 folks felt necessary to show up and support our cause for the good of BK 3 community. Fifty-five BK 3 residents showed up at the meeting last Wednesday morning. The turn out was just unbelievable.

BK 3 residents signing in.

BK 3 residents at the briefing

Besides that, the briefing by Prasarana in MPSJ office was a let down. They didn't bring anything new to the table. Everything was just the same like when it was started.

Encik Yunos Khashid, Pengarah, Bahagian Perancangan Bandar MPSJ

Briefing from Prasarana

To summarize the whole meeting:

1) No, the track can not be relocated away from the "green lung"

2) No, station no. 5 remains where it is.

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This is the message Prasarana was telling us after four months of their study, with input from their consultants. 

In other words nothing can be done.

It is our feeling the whole meeting was put together in a very rush manner with not enough facts to back up their points. Things just weren't explained to us in a satisfactory manner.

When BK 3 residents asked who decided station no. 5 has to be in BK 3, no one could give us an answer.

No explanation was given on the traffic study as well. Prasarana just mention this is a drop and ride station, without any parking area provided. 

There was no traffic studies whatsoever on what impact the station will bring to the surrounding area.

Prasarana even presented us an artist's impression of how the station and track will look like at our green lung area (see below). It is not pretty.

Artist's impression of station no. 5 and track at green lung

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While our government often spend millions and millions of ringgit in building white elephant projects, they just couldn't allocate more fund to restudy, relocate and rebuild the ramp to BK 5 area so that the LRT track can be at the centre of highway? 

With station no. 4 just a stone's throw away, why can't station no. 5 be relocated or canceled all together?

In the long run, that is the best solution with the least impact to the lives of the residents around our area.

So where is the silver lining?

With all the bureacracy our system has, we believe this is just one of the stages we have to go through. Quite simply put, neither Prasarana nor MPSJ are in a position to make the decision on our demands.

Therefore, MPSJ suggested we present a memorandum about LRT station no. 5 and track at green lung issue for  them to be discussed at the next Majlis Tindakan Ekonomi Selangor (MTES) meeting.

In other words, the Selangor government will be making the final decision. We are moving this thing higher up. That is the silver lining.

It is getting closer and closer to the end. We have waited for four months and will certainly continue to fight for the future of BK 3 community.  

Your support has become more crucial than ever. We are still collecting as many signatures as we can. Please continue to provide us as much support as you can.

Be ready for the next meeting with the Selangor government. We will need more residents to be there to make our case stronger.

Help spread the news. It is not over yet but getting tougher.

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