Why is Putrajaya so keen on monorail for Penang and why is
the state government so receptive to this offer?The Penang Forum
Steering Committee, however, considers the PM’s pledge of a monorail for
Penang as an election gimmick.
The Penang state government needs to be more circumspect about the
type of development it allows for Penang. Not all federal projects or
mega projects are good for Penang, as we have seen. We need to raise
more questions – like why does the federal government need to spend
RM780m of public money to upgrade 13km of roads near the second Penang
Bridge?
This is the Penang Forum Steering Committee’s response to Najib’s offer:
Dear PM,
Thank you for taking the time in your busy schedule to come to
Penang. We do realise that pre-election campaigning is necessary but may
we clue you in a little about Penang people? Winning our hearts and
minds involves not closing our roads and causing us great inconvenience
while waiting for your motorcade to whiz by. It involves not enticing us
with affordable housing only if BN wins and it involves not asking us
to believe that UDA will not continue to renege on all their promises
for Tanjung Tokong villagers as they have done for the last 20 years.
And most importantly it involves not throwing the monorail at us as
an election gimmick. If you really cared about Penang, you would check
with Penang people if this is what they want and need, you would
investigate how the monorail idea came about to start off with. It was
also thrown at Penang during BN times, without either public
consultation or checking on suitability. It then had the highest ‘crony
connections’ as it probably still has today.
Full letter on Penang Forum website.
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