KOTA KINABALU: The 1-Place Mall operators yesterday requested the assistance of Kota Kinabalu member of parliament Hiew King Cheu to arrange with the Putatan District Office, the Public Works Department (PWD) and the developer of the 1-Place Mall to sort out their request to open a road outlet to the Putatan-KK main road.
According to the shop operators, there is supposed to be a road outlet from the mall to the main road as shown in the drawing.
Hiew had requested Putatan District Officer Ag Abdul Ghani Pg Yusof to sort out the matter, and a meeting was conducted together with engineers from the PWD road section, both from their headquarters and Penampang office.
The meeting was conducted by the road side, and the engineers showed the document regarding the road outlet. They said the developer had to apply for the way leave along the main Putatan-KK main road before the road outlet could be approved.
They advised the developer to follow the procedure of application, and once they received their application, they will work on the approval.
Abdul Ghani said he would like to see the road outlet opened because this would ease the traffic jam within the Putatan township.
The jam is bad when there are too many cars coming into this area, and when the 1-Place Mall is in full occupation and operating in its full capacity with the hotel in business, the road will not be able to cope with the traffic.
Hiew urged the district office and the PWD to grant their approval to the developer as soon as possible for them to make preparation to build the road outlet.
He said the mall and its hotel would be completed soon and would be fully occupied. By then this road outlet is necessary. The other road outlets at the back are not capable to handle the traffic flow.
The developer of the mall has also promised to submit the application soon for the way leave to the authorities to get the approval to construct the road outlet to the Putatan-KK main road.