MINI PUTRAJAYA NOT SUITABLE FOR PUBLIC?

By : DAP MEDIA

The Mini Putrajaya Building in Likas, next to the UMS is facing with a real headache with its lack of car parking space here.

The general public who come to the Mini Putrajaya for the Immigration office, JPN, SPR and many other Federal departments always had to park their cars on the sides of the main roads.

There is just no car park available to cater for that many cars daily. The people will just have to park on the pavements, on the roads, and even on the turf area. They always risk the police summons.

The car parking space within the building is already occupied by the people working in the building and the general publics are not allowed to enter or park into the car parks.

Sabah DAP State Vice Chairman Edward Ewol Mujie received the many complaints from the people and he found out that the situation is really getting worst. The cars are parked all over the road sides and even double parked in some places. The people had to walk very far to get into the building under the hot sun and rain.

Edward urges the authorities to pay special attention to get the car parking problem sorted out and to build more car parks using the empty land adjacent to the building. There should be some covered walk way to link up the car parks to the main building. The federal building is the main administration centre and this should not be seen like a general market where there is no proper system of parking the cars.

There are plenty of open lands in the nearby area, why can’t the additional car parks be built immediately to benefit the drivers?

The public also asked for the overhead pedestrian foot bridge to be built across the main road in front of the building. They said it is very dangerous to cross the main road due to the heavy traffic flow, especially during the peak hours.

Edward asked why during the original planning stage of the federal building all these essential facilities were not incorporated in the design, and now it is causing a lot of problems to the general public. It is high time that these are to be put right.