GOODIES for Penang
Gurney Drive and the “three islands” project. It will also resolve issues of flash floods and “bald hills” within 3 years. Other highlights of the manifesto: Declaring all hill lands and hill slopes situated at 250ft above sea level as
as permanent forest reserves.
Introducing rent-to-own housing schemes; new housing projects priced between RM40,000 and RM120,000.
No water rate hike for residential areas for the next five years.
Free parking on Penang Island City Council and Seberang Perai Municipal Council lots.
Building of interchanges at congested locations and a traffic dispersal plan for the entire state. RM300 aid per year for senior citizens. Parent-teacher associations of primary schools to get RM3,000; secondary schools and alumni societies to get RM5,000. One-off RM2,000 aid to newlyweds; RM15 million a year allocation for religious and private Chinese schools.
Limiting the sale of heritage buildings to foreigners.
State BN chief Teng Chang Yeow (pix), who launched the manifesto, said: “We will deliver what we promised if we get the mandate from the people after GE14.”
Also present at the event in Seberang Jaya were the outgoing Penang Umno chief Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Osman and leaders of state BN component parties. Some 3,000 members of the coalition attended the event.
Meanwhile in a statement, caretaker Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said Teng should not lie about Pakatan Harapan’s manifesto promise to abolish highway tolls in phases.
He said Teng should explain why BN has not abolished toll on the Penang Bridge as collection has far exceeded the combined capital investments.
“The people shall decide on May 9 whether the abolition for all vehicles is better than only the abolition of tolls for motorcycles,” he said.