NADARAJAH of Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, is anxious about the out-of-order traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing in Jalan Maarof, Bangsar.

"I work in a restaurant near the pedestrian crossing and I have witnessed many times the difficulties people face while trying to cross the road due to the faulty traffic lights which has not been working for over a week," he says.

"On many occasions, I have gone out of the restaurant to assist elderly people to cross the road as I cannot bear watching them risking their lives."

LOH SAY YEONG of Brickfields claims that an illegal stall on the five-foot way of a shoplot along Jalan Thambipillay has been a major annoyance since last October because smoke from the stall keeps on seeping into his first floor home above the shoplot.

RESIDENTS of Menara Bukit Ceylon are hoping that City Hall will not approve a 27-storey service apartment project next to their condominium.

KUALA Lumpur City Hall Workers’ Union supports the plan by Mayor Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail to use City Hall employees to carry out landscaping and the growing of plants in the city rather than outsource the task to third party contractors.

Union secretary A. Munian in a faxed statement to Malay Mail yesterday said the union lauded the plan as City Hall was capable of beautifying the city on its own using its own workers.

KUALA Lumpur City Hall has announced that it is aware of some irresponsible individuals who are allegedly claiming to be City Hall top management o cers and seeking to collect unauthorised donations.

“City Hall would like to stress that it has never appointed any individual or association to collect donations from the public to help  ll up the fund of any organisation or social aid.

RICKY, who stays on Jalan Limau Purut in Bangsar, is frustrated that an inconsiderate neighbour is rearing poultry in his compound.

 

IN December last year, then Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique announced the freeze on all developments on hillslopes, with a gradient of more than 35 degrees in KL, Putrajaya and Labuan.

The ministry had also last year frozen hillslope projects on a gradient of 26 to 35 degrees until a new guideline on proper planning, design and control system is drafted by the government.

KUALA Lumpur City Hall’s “Meet the Customer Day”, has been rescheduled to Oct 2. It was originally supposed to be held on Sept 18.

NORJIHAN Mohd Abdullah, 55, who has lost her leg, got a bit of cheer yesterday, courtesy of Kuala Lumpur City Hall.

Totally dependent on a wheelchair for mobility, Norjihan lives with her husband at a City Hall housing project in Cheras. With the household depen ding on the income of a single breadwinner, the family is really grateful to receive the donation, which will help to get Norjihan a prosthetic leg.

Her daughter, Mehrulezah Ahmad, 29, too is in need of funds for surgery on her four-month-old son’s cleft palate, which will cost about RM8,000.