Those fellas have been digging, digging, digging and filling for the past 4 months. And my God... They took out half a hill! My room faces barren land now!
BEFORE:
Circles denote the 'raped' areas. A rough estimate, I think it may be more.
AFTER:
Street demos seem to be the 'in' word nowadays. Hence, the Persatuan Uncle-Aunty of TJL, 31900 decided that it's time to take action.
With placards (English, Cina, Melayu... hambalang language pun ada) and all, they staged a street demo as evidence of their discontent.
Mr. ADUN, 5th from the left.
It took only 2 persons to get the ball rolling initially, and 'Ball-roller A' came knocking on my door requesting for a official complaints letter to be drafted in English and BM. And me being the dutiful resident obliged.
More ball-rollers were roped into the picture soon after and it appears that there was an earlier 'Ball-roller before Ball-roller A' who has already done background work. Kudos!
An earlier letter (bukan aku yg tulis) handed over to the MB resulted in being forwarded to an Exco but no action was taken. It is hoped that with the recent election of local councillors, this would yield some results. Anyway, subsequent letter handed into the local authorities, Persatuan Uncle-Aunty meetings held, and coupled with the initiative of a few pro-active residents, it resulted in a visit from my State Assemblyman yesterday (Sunday). Mr. YB who visited the site himself, promised to 'look into it'.
Tak buat kerja, no more "X" for you next round!
The 'commotion' outside my house. It's quite nice seeing all neighbours gathered outside ala Wisteria Lane.
Anyway, our (correction: should be their, as I'm only supporting cast this time around. Had to keep my nose outta the picture due to exam commitments) mission statement is simple:-
1. To oppose to the proposed construction of an access road that by passes our particular Jalan; linking the new housing development project to our Taman and to town.
- I personally find this proposed access road redundant as there are currently 2 access roads available for their disposal. Why need a 3rd one? Especially when the 3rd by-passes a row of houses? It's not even the main road of our Taman.
- Plus, this new road will be constructed on 'filled-land'. Trust me, that place used to be a ravine, a very deep one which is now filled up. God bless those who buy the houses there.
2. The new housing site involves cutting or as the Persatuan Uncle-Aunty puts it 'raping' a hill which has a gradient of more than 35% (or is it 25%). And apparently, it is illegal an against the law.
- I have no idea about this. Have yet to check out the relevant statute.
3. And perhaps to review the feasibility of the whole project in general.
- A couple of rivers have been clogged up as a result of this 'penerokaan hutan'. Not a good sign. But, I honestly think that it's a bit too wishy-washy to hope that the developers would review the project as a whole.
- We're still far behind in attempts to do 'environmentally sustainable development'. All we do is blast (limestone hills), dig (i.e. rape the mountains), fill (the ravine), chop, dig, fill, chop, dig, fill.... *repeat process*
We shall see. I'll keep you posted.
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-LV-
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