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'No need for more white elephants in KL'
Published:  Oct 20, 2010 7:59 AM
Updated: Oct 20, 2010 3:30 AM

your say 'Sydney was voted ‘most liveable city' time and again. It does not have to build the tallest building in the world to make me want to go back there for another holiday.'

Opposition MPs visit mega-tower site

OMG: Malaysia does not need any more grandiose projects concentrated on showcasing Kuala Lumpur as its jewel. It needs effective education and economic policies to benefit and improve the lives of all Malaysians. This government continues to fail to grasp what this country really needs to lift itself out of the doldrums.

Urkidding: The Survey Department must do a study to see if there is a shortage of office space in KL or whether there is already a glut.

What will be the returns from the investment? What are the possibilities, if any, of takes for the office spaces created? If PNB is moving their office to this tower, what is going to happen to their present space? Do we really need this tower? Do we really want to spend that kind of money just to benefit a few? Can we instead use the allocation to fund education, medical care, road transport or even reduce personal income tax?

Gen2indian: Sydney was voted ‘most liveable city' time and again. I have been there three times and I can understand why. The public transport is excellent, crime negligible, sports and recreation facilities abundant, traffic jams non-existent and most importantly, public servants really do serve the public. Taking the train into the city centre is also a pleasure and very reasonably priced.

They most certainly don't have or need to build the tallest building in the world to make me want to go back there for another holiday.

Maitreya: This is brazen daylight robbery of the rakyat's money to finance the retirement plans of a small elite corps of Umnoputra warlords and contractors, plus a handful of ‘towkay' cronies. PM Najib Razak's arrogance, blindness and stupidity are simply grotesque.

Ruben: Well done, Pakatan Rakyat MPs. You are playing your role as our elected representatives well. I am a KLite and my city does not need any more white elephants.

The latest white elephant is being built in the smallest stretch of the so-called Little India in Brickfields, KL. What a blatant waste of money. That area is such a complete mess. I just wonder how much money will continue to be wasted in maintaining all the multi-coloured arches, the ugly trumpet blowing-looking street lights, the unnecessary ‘Welcome to Little India' arch (as though people don't know that quite a number of Indian shops are there).

Not forgetting the blatant disregard for the safety and welfare of the school children, residents, the blind, the worshippers who need to use Jalan Berhala where schools, apartments, mosques, Hindu temples, Buddhist temples, churches, etc, are located.

Anonymous: If we look at the number of seats within Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory, Pakatan is the rightful government, not BN.

This is indeed a hijack of the constitutional rights of voters to form their own state government. In essence, it is wrong for Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng to regard Pakatan as an opposition. Pakatan should submit a motion to debate such a matter in Parliament to claim back the constitutional rights of KLites.

On the other hand, if the motion is denied, then we should exercise our rights in the next 13th general elections to put Pakatan in Putrajaya and claim back Kuala Lumpur.

KSN: Spend and utilise the RM5 billion for poverty alleviation all over the country and provide better and efficient facilities like transport, etc, for KL folks.

The same criteria must apply for the RM45 billion allocation for the KL MRT (mass rapid transit) system. The present transport system is not working in uniformity from the point of view of convenience and efficiency. When the existing systems like the LRT (light rail transit), railways and bus services are not functioning well and are very costly, why spend such an enormous sum on a new system that may not work as intended.

Please remember it is the taxpayers' money that the government is spending, probably without the desired effect. Every ringgit spent must be assessed from its utility value to our people. Nobody from the government has given an intelligent reason for the new tower. Why are we obsessed with the tallest, biggest, etc, structures? It does not make sense at all.

WanM: It is very sad to learn of this gigantic 100-storey tower which the country does not need. Why spend RM5 billion when there are more urgent transportation needs in Klang Valley to be looked into.

There are also very poor citizens to be assisted in many ways - just imagine how much can be done for health services, housing and medical facilities, rural developments, especially those in East Malaysia where river travel may take one to three days for return journeys.

Look at the potholes in many roads which cause accidents, especially those on motorbikes. There are also urgent stretches of dangerous roads that can be widened and straightened for safety. I hope the government has not forgotten the tragic deaths in recent months. Do we need to tell the Road Transport Department what to do?

PM, DPM's travel bill balloons 75% from 2008

Pants on Fire: What is this? I pay taxes through my nose and these leaders and their wives enjoy travelling on first class. This is enough. The people are struggling to live and own houses. Can Pakatan give us a written assurance that these expenses will be cut by at least 75 percent if they come into power? My family's vote is for anyone who can give us this assurance.

Superman: This is really giving me a sharp pain. For a mere salary of less than RM3,500 a month, I'm working my butt off from 8am till God knows midnight almost every single day. I pay taxes, which goes supposedly for the nation's development. But look at these leaders, spending money like water. It pisses me off to think that it's the money of middle-class citizens like us.


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