THE BEAUFORT new bridge has been opened unofficial for traffic flow recently, but immediately received many complaints and comment from the road users over its design and layout among others problems.
The Sabah DAP Beaufort Branch Deputy Chairman, Ong Boon Hong received the complaints from the people who said that the new bridge has a lot of problems. The major one being the round-about that is joining to the main Beaufort/Kota Kinabalu highway.
The position of the round about is not quite right and that leads to the confusion of the drivers and traffic jam. There is not enough traffic signage to show the direction and to warn the drivers.
On the bridge, there is no pedestrian or bicycle lane. This is endangering the life of the people who walk across the bridge on foot or riding bicycle to get across. The bridge is very narrow and it is particularly dangerous when there are two big trailers with heavy loads getting across the bridge at the same time.
The people asked why the bridge was not constructed just a bit wider or by another 3 meters. They said after spending so much money, we only got a bridge that has plenty of inbuilt potential danger.
There are other defects and these have to be put right. Ong said the JKR should spend time to rectify the various defects before the bridge is finally opened official for traffic. We cannot risk the life of the road users.
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