RM400M TO BUILT OVERTAKING LANES ALONG KUCHING-MIRI TRUNK ROAD

IF THE PROPOSAL IS APPROVED, IT WOULD CERTAINLY REDUCES THE DEATH ACCIDENT TALLY ALONG THE ROAD

MANYIN

SARAWAK Public Works Department (JKR) have been instructed by the Federal Government to evaluate on the State’s proposal to construct 95 overtaking lanes in Sarawak on the state trunk road between Kuching and Miri.

“The proposal of the overtaking-lane project, initially estimated at RM400 million is however, is the secondary option to our first proposal which is to upgrade the present over 900 km two-way trunk road into a dual-carriageway which overall cost a massive RM16 billion.”

Sarawak Infrastructure Development and Communication Minister Datuk Seri Michael Manyin said this adding that he believes that their proposal will be approved as the cost of the overtaking-lane proposal submitted last year was just a fraction of their first RM16 billion proposal.

"I think RM400 million is nothing (but a small amount) for the Federal Government compared to what we originally asked for (RM16 billion) so there’s a possibility that the proposal would be approved.”

Manyin said this to reporters at a press conference after officiating at the State-level Road Safety Education (RSE) Program for National Service (NS) Trainees which was held at the Merdeka Palace Hotel near the city here yesterday.

"If we can get approval for the allocation for the overtaking-lane project even by stages or phases would do, a lot of lives can be saved along the trunk road."

"The average overall accident death tally in Malaysia is 18-person per day an average of 1.2-person per day for Sarawak alone," added Manyin, who is also Tebedu State Assemblyman.

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