{"id":3457,"date":"2013-01-16T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:09:00","slug":"hannah-yeoh-bridge-bns-empty-promise-prs-realisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/hannah-yeoh-bridge-bns-empty-promise-prs-realisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Yeoh – PR fulfils BN’s broken bridge promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>SUBANG JAYA, 15 Jan \u2013 Another case of Barisan Nasional\u2019s \u201cJanji Dicapati<\/em>\u201d, or unfulfilled promises, was revealed when the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat-led government marked the completion of a pedestrian bridge at Persiaran Kewajipan here, after the promise given by BN to do so during the 2008 General Elections went unfulfilled.<\/p>\n

Selangor State Assemblywoman for Subang Jaya, Hannah Yeoh said plans for the construction of the pedestrian bridge were announced in a press conference by the then BN State Assemblyman, Lee Hwa Beng, alongside BN\u2019s former electoral candidate for Subang Jaya, Ong Chee Swen.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, after Lee Hwa Beng and Ong Chong Swen lost during the 2008 GE, as the newly-elected Subang Jaya State Assemblywomen, I then did a follow up on the bridge proposal with the Public Works Department.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was then informed [by PWD] that the project would be discontinued,\u201d said Yeoh, also the treasurer for Selangor DAP.<\/p>\n

According to Yeoh, a statement received by her from Lee Hwa Beng himself highlighted that the pedestrian bridge was in fact a \u201cpersonal promise\u201d by the former Minister for Public Works, S Samy Vellu. When both Lee and Samy Vellu lost during the 2008 political tsunami, the \u2018bridge promise\u2019 was rendered to an ultimate halt.<\/p>\n

Yeoh furthers that it is proven that BN\u2019s act in giving promises is only meant to fish for votes, not to put the people as priority \u2014 a situation in contrary with the ruling coalition\u2019s oft-repeated slogan, \u2018People First, Performance Now\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI then brought the issue to the Selangor PR government, despite it is not being under the state government\u2019s jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter four years of waiting for BN to fulfill its promise, and after 1,600 signatures obtained through a petition held in May 2012, the Menteri Besar, Abdul Khalid Ibrahim gave the consent to complete the project using the state government\u2019s funding of RM1.35 million,\u201d Yeoh explained.<\/p>\n

The pedestrian bridge is built primarily for the local pedestrians\u2019 safety, catering to the houses of worship and religious associations located nearby, namely Subang Jaya Buddhist Association, a Hindu temple, Sri Varatharajah Perumal and Subang Sikh Association.<\/p>\n

The 10km\u2013long Persiaran Kewajipan is one of Subang Jaya\u2019s busiest major thouroughfares, a main artery cutting through the thriving Klang Valley township from the neighborhood of SS15 to the southernmost vicinities of USJ.<\/p>\n

Hannah said, the completion of the pedestrian bridge could stand as a clear reminder for Subang Jaya residents that BN\u2019s slogan, \u201cJanji Ditepati<\/em>\u201d or promises fulfilled, is indeed carrying with it with empty promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cBN makes promises, but Pakatan Rakyat fulfills and turns the promises into reality,\u201d she said. \u2013 The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SUBANG JAYA, 15 Jan \u2013 Another case of Barisan Nasional\u2019s \u201cJanji Dicapati\u201d, or unfulfilled promises, was revealed when the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat-led government marked the completion of a pedestrian bridge at Persiaran Kewajipan here, after the promise given by BN to do so during the 2008 General Elections went unfulfilled. Selangor State Assemblywoman for Subang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}