Published on Daily Express: Sunday, February 20, 2011 |
The bridge constructed to span over the river in Kg Brunei, started in 2006 and was completed in 2008 to replace a low laying timber-bridge which was subjected to constant flood in the area.
Traffic flow will be cut off when flood occurs so the new bridge was then constructed for the river crossing, but very surprisingly it is not connected by road.
"The new bridge just sits there on its own and looks like a sculpture," he said in a statement.
"The whole project seems uncompleted and looks strange, how can you build a bridge to cross a river without any connecting road?
There must be something wrong to the implementation and on the planning of the particular road upgrading project," he said.
The construction of the bridge and the approach road must be carried out simultaneously in order to complete the job of providing an access to get across the flooded river, he said.
"It doesn't make sense that the bridge was completed in 2008 and it stood there for three years to wait for the coming of the approach road to be built. This is a real case of bad planning and management by the government," he said.
Hiew reminded the government to be more reliable and responsible at all times and show some transparency and efficiency in the administration.
This was again one of government project with poor planning and wasted of public funds.
ReplyDeleteNo effective monitoring from the point of inception towards the point of completion.
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