HANNAH YEOH HITS BULLSEYE: POOR PEOPLE NEED CARPARKS TOO

IT is wrong to assume low-cost flat dwellers do not need a carpark because they are too poor to drive.

Deputy Women, Family and Community Develoment Minister Hannah Yeoh said this in response to the flak City Hall has received for its plan  to build multi-storey car parks in the PPR housing schemes.

“It’s unfair to say poor people cannot have cars simply because you must remember that some of them have children.

“If they have three children, you can’t ask them to take the motorcycle,” she told reporters at the Tabika Kemas convocation in Kuala Lumpur today.

She said most low-cost flats lacked parking and more.

She said new local housing projects should also incorporate basic facilities such as parks and childcare centres.

“I served 10 years as the Subang assemblyman and I have seen that most PPR do not have enough parking, so cars are spilling onto the main road.

“It is time to treat the poor with dignity.”

Federal Territories Minister Khalid Abdul Samad has said that City Hall is studying a plan to equip five or six low-cost housing schemes with a carpark so prevent cars from being parked on the roads.

He said construction would proceed in stages.

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