DONT SQUEEZ LIKAS BRIDGE!

NARROW....The narrow bridge over Sungai Likas cause of massive traffic jam.

THE LONG queue of cars along the stretch of road from Inanam towards the Mile 5.5, Jalan Tuaran and Jalan Lintas traffic light junction is caused by the narrow bridge crossing the Likas River.

The daily traffic jam had caused many grouses and dismay among the drivers using this road every day. The jam can be very long if the cars are squeezing to get through the bridge from the direction of Inanam to KK.

The people complained to the KK MP Hiew King Cheu during his CNY walkabout in Luyang and Inanam, and they requested his assistance to highlight this pressing issue to JKR immediately.

They said that the JKR may not be aware of this problem, and in fact many accidents had already occurred due to the narrow bridge over the Likas River here. The act on jumping queue by the drivers in hurry is the cause of accidents and also due to drivers who are trying to squeeze in the long queue when they came out from the branch road next to the Fook Loi Motor show room.

The cars usually wanted to get across this narrow bridge to turn into Jalan Lintas, but there is no space for them to cross the bridge. If the bridge is widened with an additional lane, the cars should be able to cross the river without much difficulty.

KK MP Hiew said the situation can be easily solved if JKR can put in an additional lane by widening the existing bridge. Since on both side of the road there is a road lane available, it will easy just to widen up the Sungai Likas Bridge to connect up the road.

This little bit of work should have been done long time ago, and we don’t see any problem why this was not done. It is high time that the JKR to start the work to widen the bridge to provide an additional lane for the cars to cross the bridge directly to eliminate the squeezing in of the cars in the long queue.

Besides, the sewerage pipe laying work that is blocking part of the road here is also subjected to public complaints. The people wanted the JKR to finish off the work on the laying of sewerage pipe as soon as possible because it is building up big inconvenience for them to get into the Jalan Lintas from the Inanam side. It is dangerous to get into the Jalan Lintas when the cars from the Tuaran By-pass are speeding to cross the traffic lights.

- Sabahkini