SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Government thanked Bandar Utama City Corporation (BUCC) for re-opening Jalan Tanjung Bandar Utama as agreed with the state, Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) and Tropicana developer Dijaya Corporation at the meeting on November 22, 2009.

The State Government also thanks all residents for their patience and cooperation in ensuring that the re-opening was conducted safely and expeditiously.

As agreed in the meeting, the re-opening of the road for two weeks will not prejudice the ongoing legal disputes between BUCC and Dijaya. The move will now allow MBPJ to study the feasibility of widening Jalan Tanjung, Bandar Utama to a four-lane road from its current two-lane road.

This study is not limited to the widening of Jalan Tanjung, Bandar Utama and is part of a holistic traffic dispersal study to other access routes in search of long-term solutions to the problem of bad traffic conditions in Damansara.

Apart from the reopening of Jalan Tanjung, MBPJ has already begun its efforts to implement the short-term measure to ease traffic congestion which includes reassigning the U-turn at the junction of Jalan Tropicana Selatan and Jalan Hilir Bandar Utama near a nursery further up in the area; and building a road to link Jalan PJU1A/1 in Ara Damansara to Persiaran Tropicana.

The state is committed to find long-term measures to address the problem and will be calling all developers in Damansara to participate in the process.

TAN SRI ABDUL KHALID IBRAHIM
DATO’MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR
PRESS STATEMENT
DECEMBER 1, 2009