TERMINAL
.....A bird's eye view of the Wawasan bus terminal in Kota Kinabalu.
KOTA KINABALU: The Wawasan
bus terminal in the city will be temporarily relocated from July 5 to enable
the contractor, Golden Wave Sdn Bhd (Golden Wave), to enter the site to start
construction works on the bus terminal and its supporting facilities.
KK Mayor Datuk Abidin
Madingkir said the temporary bus routes and routing plans have been distributed
to all the bus operators.
Under the new arrangement
the buses are only allowed to drop and pick up passengers at the bus stops in
the City. They are not supposed to park or wait for passengers at any of the
bus stops.
Buses plying the Southern
and Eastern zone routes will use bus stops
located along Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens in front of Marina Court.
The second bus stop ,
located along Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman in front of Hotel Shangrila, will serve
the Northern zone buses.
Madingkir said the decision
was made after a series of meetings of the Working Committee that he chaired,
involving the Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CVLB), Traffic Division of the
Ministry of Infrastructure Development, Road Transport Department (RTD), the
police Traffic Division, PUSPAKOM and Road Transport Department.
He said due care was taken
to ensure that all parties involved in the relocation, the bus opertors, the
general public especially bus commuters would not suffer undue inconvenience
and financial loss because of the closure of the Wawasan Bus Terminal.
On the initial plan to
relocate the bus operators from the Wawasan bus terminal to the three proposed
permanent terminals – the Northern Bus Terminal, Eastern Bus Terminal and
Southern Bus Terminal - he said City Hall is currently not able to cary out the
plan as these terminals have yet to be
built.
He appealed to the bus
operators and the public to be patient and give the relocation measures a
chance to work. However he indicated
that some enforcement actions may be taken should there be massive
traffic jams in the city. (Insight Sabah)
RM8m is currently under construction adjacent to the existing bus terminal near Wawasan Plaza. Funded by the Federal Government under the Public Transportation Fund.
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