KUALA LUMPUR: The RM10 million pedestrian bridge linking the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre to the KLCC Impiana Hotel is not a government project.
The cost of building the 153 metre bridge is borne fully by the Petronas subsidiary, KLCC (Holdings) Sdn Bhd, the Federal Territory and Urban Wellbeing Minister, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abdidin, clarified yesterday.
The government is not at all involved in the project, and neither is he or the mayor of Kuala Lumpur, Raja Nong Chik said in a statement.
“The appointment of the contractor was by rigorous tender and 100 per cent handled by the KLCC,” he said.
The pedestrian bridge, which would be air-conditioned and have escalators and lifts for senior citizens and disabled people along with security features such as CCTV, was being built as a corporate social responsibility, he said.
As such, the allegation by Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar that the project cost too much and was a waste of money was baseless, Raja Nong Chik said.
Nurul had also asked whether the contractor had been appointed by open tender.
Raja Nong Chik had said the bridge was the first phase in the overall project of building 12km of pedestrian bridges to link all major roads in Kuala Lumpur to public transport stations. — Bernama