Road repairs in Labuan taking too long: Council

LABUAN: The Public Works Department (PWD) should explain why road repairs or redesign works even at busy traffic points usually took a long time to complete and at time the works are left half-done and resumes days later."Is the department aware that this avoidable nuisance to road users, at times, caused serious bottlenecks to occur during peak hours. It also caused motorists to burn extra expensive fuel and stress on their vehicles," Labuan Consumers Council (LCC) Chairman, Fauziah Datuk Din said.

She pointed out the island's limited network of roads was presently choked-up with about 50,000 vehicles and it would help in traffic flow if road works were swiftly done.

Fauziah said this in reference to work in progress at the Jalan Jawa/Jalan Mustapha section. She said the re-designing job on the section was neither technically complicated or extensive but more than a month had elapsed without the job being fully completed.

"Only recently it was being rushed up."

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She said the said section was an important point to handle the flow of traffic from the town. Due to the re-design works in progress, the section of the highway (Jalan Tun Mustapha) was narrowed due to plastic barriers placed around the work site.

"Usually in the evening, the rush for home was an ordeal for motorists due to the obstruction. Traffic had to be at snail pace and when it was raining or the traffic lights at the section malfunction, as it happened not long ago, it aggravated the problem," remarked Fauziah.

Fauziah said this was not the only problem-section. Similar road re-design work at the entrance to the road to the Meteorological Station at Jalan Poton Batu was taking weeks to complete. There was only one dimly lit streetlight in this section and driving was dangerous to those unfamiliar with the road.

Adding to this, Fauziah also said further up the same road, a stretch was being widened. She said this was well and good but when machinery was used for excavation purposes, one lane was closed from use and according to complaints received, there were no clear safety measures in place.

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Fauziah hoped that PWD would go beyond their responsibility of awarding contract to seriously ensure that road users and that such work was not a nagging nuisance to road users and also had adequate standard safety measures in place such as having personnel to help direct traffic.

Caption: The traffic flow at a snail pace along Jalan Tun Mustapha after oficce hours.

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