RM1.2m spent to provide over 300 new parking lots
Published on: Friday, May 29, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: A total of RM1.2 million has been spent to provide over 300 new parking bays in the city including providing 90 new ones in the Inanam township here, said Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir.He said City Hall was able to furnish the new parking lots after getting funding from the State Government to minimise the shortage of parking bays in the city area."We cannot deny that the township here has undergone rapid development in many aspects like mushrooming of trading premises and people which is also another factor that contributes to shortage of parking lots.
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"That is why we used the RM1.2 million channelled last year by the State Government to provide new parking lots in the city and areas like Inanam that fall under City Hall's jurisdiction," he said.Madingkir said this at the launching of 90 new parking lots in Inanam township and a gotong-royong cleanliness programme, here, Thursday.City Hall Environmental Health Department director Robert Lipon delivered the Mayor's speech in the event organised by Urban Community Development Committee (JKDB) for Inanam in cooperation with City Hall, Fire and Rescue Department, police, Rela, Information Department, shop owners, neighbourhood watch and the dwellers here, among others.About 100 personnel from City Hall's Landscape Unit and Environmental Health Department together with Rela and JKDB Inanam members took part in the gotong-royong in the township.
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Also present were JKDB Inanam Chairman Datuk Andrew C.E. Lim, community leaders and other officials.Madingkir also thanked Lim and JKDB Inanam for giving full cooperation to City Hall and commended the new committee of JKDB Inanam for their proactive effort in developing an abandoned area and turning it into a place to provide 90 new parking lots.
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He hoped the motorists here would make full use of the new parking lots and will not simply park their vehicles as they like to avoid traffic congestion in the township.On the gotong-royong programme, Madingkir said it conveyed a message that maintaining and looking after cleanliness is a collective responsibility and to enhance awareness among the residents in the township.He said the cleanliness programme is also in line with the City Hall's Halatuju 5K – Cleanliness, Beautification, Safety, Organised and Wellbeing – for Menggatal which was launched in 2011 and will also be applied in other areas on the outskirts of Kota KInabalu like Inanam township and Telipok.Meanwhile, Lim said the residents here are thankful that their needs to have more parking bays have been fulfilled by the government through City Hall.However, he called on City Hall to look into other infrastructure needs of the township and surrounding areas as it is developing at a fast pace with the development of housing, commercial lots, banks and accommodation.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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