Letters - Shelve intracity highway plans

THE federal government should stop wasting time entertaining any more applications for Kidex type highways or variants of it unless they are going to put it fully underground.
The days of highways cutting across cities to cater for private vehicles or to de-congest some other already congested highway are long gone.
Don't give residents anxiety over ineffective infrastructure which uses valuable public land.
The federal, state and local governments direction and priority is clear – mass public transport infrastructure will be the order of the day.
Public land should not be wasted on intra-city toll roads any more which just benefit some at the expense of others and the environment.
The only proven effective solution to reduce intra-city traffic congestion is to put fewer cars on the road by providing first class public transport infrastructure and mass public transport systems and not building more toll highways that only delay the traffic congestion or worse still push it to another resident's doorstep.
Highways between cities may be still necessary but certainly not within the city.
All over the world they are getting getting rid of such highways and re-purposing it as walkways and open spaces.
This outdated method of solving urban traffic problems should be permanently discarded as it's proven not to be effective and a huge waste of public land and resources.
Derek Fernandez
Petaling Jaya City Councillor