By FAZLEENA AZIZ | Mar 10, 2010

Residents bear the brunt of too much development

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THE township of Kota Damansara in Petaling Jaya is seeing rapid developments in recent years and the residents are the ones to bear the brunt.

At present traffic situation along Persiaran Surian bad near the tunnel leading to Kota Damansara.

StarMetro spoke to several residents on the traffic impact in the area as a result of the developments.

Friends of Kota Damansara co-chairman Jeffrey Phang said traffic would worsen in the future.

“Projects are being approved

without taking proper considerations and the traffic is getting worse.

“I even have to plan my time to go out so as to avoid the rush hour jam,” he said, adding that there should be proper development plans instead of ad hoc ones.

D’Villa Avenue Residents Association committee member Dali Sardar said the issue was not with the traffic itself but with the ungazetted developments in the area.

He said Kota Damansara was a dynamic and growing area and increased traffic should be expected with properly planned developments.

However, he said congestion could be addressed once the LRT services Kota Damansara.

For D’Villa Avenue committee member Vincent Chee, the roads in the area are not designed to cope with a big traffic volmume.

He said the rampant developments like two hypermarkets within 500m of distance was ridiculous.

“This is an unmitigated disaster in the making which reflects badly on MBPJ and the state government.

“Traffic will get worse and you have bottlenecks near Pelangi Damansara and the tunnel,” he said, adding that the local council should widen the roads.