KUALA LUMPUR: Chinatown and the My Rapid Transit (MRT) are not the Land Public Transport Commission’s (SPAD) problem anymore, its chief said.SPAD chairman Syed Hamid Albar said that people unhappy with the MRT affecting Jalan Sultan lots needed to take it up with the project’s owners, MRT Corp.
“Whatever discussion (there is) on Jalan Sultan, we’ve completed our job. We’ve taken in the public’s views, now you’ll have to deal with MRT Corp.
“If there is any requirement for change, you come back to us,” he told reporters at Klang Bus Stand last night.
Syed Hamid added that SPAD was merely a regulator, and could only “facilitate” when it came to the MRT.
Dozens of lot owners in Jalan Sultan and Bukit Bintang were unhappy that their buildings were going to be taken through land acquisition in mid-August for the construction of underground MRT tunnels.
Unhappy at being notified about the matter at the very last minute, the lot owners took their grouses to politicians, and warned the government not to grab their land by force.
Syed Hamid also said that demolition works on the Klang Bus Stand were expected to start in December and end by early 2012.
After this, construction work on the Pasar Seni MRT station would begin.
In the mean time, buses servicing Klang and Banting (including RapidKL U91) would be shifted to Pudu Sentral.
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