RM13 mln for two infrastructure upgrading projects – Ting

MIRI: The federal government has approved RM13 million for the implementation of two infrastructure projects in Miri.

According to Piasau assemblyman Datuk Sebastian Ting, the two projects are to improve and upgrade the GK roundabout to ease traffic congestion as well as to upgrade the access road for Tudan Desaras.

“I’ve been informed by the Implementation Coordination Unit (ICU) director-general Tan Sri Ahmad Zaki Ansore Mohd Yusof that the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has recently approved two road infrastructure projects for the city.

RM12 million will be for works on the GK roundabout and RM1 million for Tudan Desaras’s road upgrading project.”

Ting said after visiting a poor family at Piasau Utara here.

On behalf of the people in the city, he thanked the federal government for approving the two projects.

“The government is now working out the details for the two projects. Like the others in the city, I’m also hoping that the implementation of the two projects can commence soon.”

He revealed that the approval was the result of the official working visit by Tan Sri Ahmad Zaki to the city in October last year to see for himself the the infrastructure which had been submitted by the respective YBs for Sarawak and Sabah for upgrading.

The ICU which is under the Prime Minister’s Department had been tasked to study the applications for infrastructure upgrading.