Three-year master plan for Kota Sentosa begins
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The plan: Lo and the committee members looking at a road map while visiting Kota Sentosa.
The masterplan encompasses three phases with the first kicked off yesterday.
MPP chairman Lo Khere Chiang revealed that the whole masterplan would cost around RM3.5mil to be sourced from the state government.
“MPP has been conducting a study on the traffic condition here since 2011.
“The area has a high traffic volume even as parking gets haphazard, so the masterplan will address all this,” he told a press conference here yesterday.
He said MPP had engaged L&P Associates to conduct traffic circulation studies at Kota Sentosa and to carry out phase one of the engineering design.
Phase one contract sum is RM639,080 for a period of 10 weeks and it will be handled by contractor Sasomi Bina Sdn Bhd.
The scope of work will include improving traffic flow along Jalan Liu Shang Bang, Wet Market Area and Lorong Liu Shang Bang 2.
For the first part, work will begin from Lorong Liu Shang Bang four to Jalan Kuching Ranger Depo and this will see the closure of the existing median break there.
Road users will no longer be allowed to turn right from the wet market to Jalan Liu Shang Bang as this has been creating traffic jam.
Road bumps will also be constructed to reduce speeding for the safety of pedestrians and the lane will be widened when all angle parking gets converted to parallel parking.
From Sacred Heart Church to the new shoplots at Pizza Hut, the existing road leading to the SSPCA will be widened and a right turn lane from these new shoplots will be allowed to divert traffic to the Kuching-Serian road.
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