By : JALIBIN PAIDI
RANAU : The in-coming Federal Government must allocate more funds for a better and wider roads in Sabah, including all roads that connect the state capital Kota Kinabalu and the other major towns like Sandakan, Tawau, Keningau and Kudat.
Time and again we saw a mere landslip on our small double-lane roads would cripple traffic for days just like the one that happened very recently in Ranau. Virtually all traffic from Ranau, Sandakan, Tawau and Lahad Datu to the state capital were halted for very long hours.
So much time and resources were spent and spoiled because we don't have good and wider roads, all after 49 years of independence !
Our transportation would have been smoother if we have wider and triple-lane roads everywhere. The State Reform Party (Star) is of the opinion that by now we should have at least double-lane or triple-lane roads for Kota Kinabalu (KK)-Ranau-Sandakan-Tawau; KK-Tuaran-Kota Belud-Kudat; KK-Tambunan-Keningau; KK-Papar-Beaufort-Sipitang; and the Keningau-Kalabakan-Tawau.
It is now a common sight that during peak hours the KK exit roads would be very jammed. The KK-Kudat road would be jammed up to Tuaran, and so is the KK-Beaufort is jammed up to Papar at peak hours !
A better mode of public transportation including the introduction of LRT and more efficient railway must be brought by now to Sabah. We failed to understand why the UMNO-led Federal Government had conveniently neglected our needs for good and wider roads. They are building highways after highways Peninsular but they don't even give us a triple-lane roads within the KK city.
Can we not say that we are being sabotaged ? A shift in priority from Peninsular to East Malaysia must be introduced by the incoming Federal Government if it wants to stay beyond its five years term at the coming general election.
For this we challenge both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat to offer East Malaysia a better. - Sabahkini
masih byk lagi jalan di Sabah yang masih teruk dan perlu dimajukan.
ReplyDeleteGovernment should focus more on developing the rural areas.
Deletepada tahun ini Sabah ada menerima peruntukan terbesar lebih 4 billion, peruntukan tersebut harus digunakan untuk memperbaiki jalan2 di Sabah.
ReplyDeleteWith the huge allocation, we be sure to see a big different in sabah.
DeleteTiap tahun memang ada peruntukan untuk menaiktaraf jalan tapi negeri Sabah terlalu luas untuk dijangkau. lebih2 lagi lebih dari 70% kawasan di Sabah ni merupakan kawasan luar bandar/pedalaman.
ReplyDeleteSemoga penduduk Sabah akan terus mendapat pembelaan daripada kerajaan untuk hak mereka.
ReplyDeleteGovernment is aware and concerned and open to listen to problems faced by the rakyat
Deletethe State Cabinet have also planned and implemented a lot of development programmes for the benefit of the people in Sabah
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