KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 — City ladowners here have finally warmed to MRT Corporation’s solution to end a property dispute, a move the firm says will help the government avoid acquisition of prime properties and cut the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project cost by billions of ringgit.
MRT Corp chief executive officer Datuk Azhar Abdul Hamid declared the Jalan Sultan and Jalan Inai row resolved yesterday, after a majority signed a memorandum pledging to work out the terms of a mutual agreement.
“The support garnered among the Jalan Sultan and Jalan Inai landowners exemplifies progress in the implementation of the country’s largest public infrastructure project,” MRT Corp said in a statement issued last night.
Azhar later expressed relief that even Bukit Bintang traders, who have been relentlessly pushing for a realignment of the 51km Sungai Buloh-Kajang route, finally decided yesterday to consider MRT Corp’s proposal.
The Bukit Bintang group, whose properties will have to be destroyed and later rebuilt during construction on the MRT, had on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the prime minister, demanding a realignment of the railway line.
They also turned up in droves at the Parliament lobby on the same day to present the same memorandum to Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, urging the minister in the Prime Minister’s Department to help resolve the matter.
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