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PLEASE BEAR WITH US: Abang Wahab (centre) flanked by Ting (left) and Dr Saadiah at thepress conference here yesterday. Photo by Chimon Upon

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by Johnson K Saai, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on September 7, 2012, Friday

KUCHING:Peoplestaying inMatangand its

surrounding areas will be relieved to know the daily traffic jam they are facing now will be a thing of thepast in two months time.

Kuching North commissioner Datuk Abang Wahab Abang Julai said this would be made possible uponthe completion of the ongoing improvement and upgrading work to the road network in Matang area byend of November.

Affecting areas such as Matang Baru, Kubah Ria and Matang Link, the project is to provide access toMedan Niaga Satok, which will replace the present Satok Weekend Market.

We fully understand the difficulties faced by motorists using the area and we sympathise with them butat the same time, for a smoother flow of traffic in the area in the future, everyone has to sacrifice.

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We received lots of queries from concerned members of the public and we are pleased to inform themall the three road upgrading projects will be completed by November. That is the assurance given to usby JKR (Public Works Department), he said.

He disclosed this at a media conference held at the Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) officehere yesterday which was also attended by JKR southern region officer Roland Ting and DBKUdirector Dr Saadiah Abdul Samat.

According to Ting, all the projects costing some RM18 million were expected to be completed withinthe scheduled completion period.

So far there is no delay except for the road upgrading construction at Kubah Ria where there had beensome slight delay but nonetheless we expect it can completed on time by end of this November, hesaid.

To this, Abang Wahab explained that the road construction at Kubah Ria was initially hoped to becompleted by now but works had been slightly delayed due to some unforeseen circumstances.

When the road construction commenced early this year we believed it could be completed in earlySeptember but without us knowing it there are lot of underground utilities within the area.

So for us to remove and redo them it will cost at least several million Ringgit extra so what thecontractors did was they tried their best to mitigate the problem, and that was exactly the main cause ofthe slight delay, he added.

He said the other reason was the recent festive occasion, whereby many of the workers had decided toprolong their leaves.

On claims by house owners that the road extension project had encroached into their land, he saidthere was no such thing.

Based on our record, for some of them it was the house fencings that were encroaching into thegovernment road reserves and not the other way round as claimed by some people, he said.

However, he said, this was no longer an issue because after being informed the house owners agreedto dismantle their fences in order to give way to the road extension project.

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