Playground falls victim

Published on: Sunday, April 24, 2022

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The playground in question has been compromised.

THE opening of the U-turn flyover at Jalan Lintas from Heritage Plaza to Lintas Plaza/Lintas Square on April 20 marks the beginning of “more traffic noise pollution and dust” for roadside houses of Taman Milek Phase 1 and on the opposite side of the road.

What was not known to many, is the loss of the “playground area that has been reduced in size due to the construction and expansion of the main road and the flyover” that have intruded into the area of their playground.

Now just a stripe of land beside the road and flyover approach way.

For years, by housing development law, property developers in Sabah are to allocate some 5 to ten per cent of their development area as recreation playground of the housing estate that they were developing.

For Taman Milek Phase 1, the size and calm ambience of theirs “is changed forever.”

Prior to this, even the roadside billboard advertising a brand of paint, “was shifted into their playground area from the roadside shoulder taken over for the construction of the flyover.”

Lawsuit, complaints to the authorities were all in vain.

Now the resale value of our semi-detached homes are depressed as a result of such development that have transformed their premium location residential area into a less desirable locale with traffic noise and dust pollution, not to mention for a few houses next to the flyover, the potential of a heavy vehicle going off the flyover and falling onto their home.

DT

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