In our previous article, we asked whether residents had the full picture during the public display of the Draft Petaling Jaya Local Plan (Replacement). In this piece, we look at whether the numbers behind PJ’s transport masterplan can be relied on.

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The Petaling Jaya Urban Transportation Master Plan 2.0 (Pelan Induk Pengangkutan Petaling Jaya or PIPPJ 2.0) is officially the “main input” behind the traffic assumptions in the Draft Petaling Jaya Local Plan (RTPJ) 2035 (Replacement).

The RTPJ (Replacement) and PIPPJ 2.0 cover the whole of Petaling Jaya and are projected for the year 2035.

Remember this name. PIPPJ 2.0 is the technical foundation behind the RTPJ (Replacement)’s traffic assumptions.

The problem in plain English is that the RTPJ (Replacement) was designed for a city of 1,048,681 people.

PIPPJ 2.0 was calculated for a city of...