NST: Cabinet halts PJD Link project

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PUTRAJAYA: The cabinet today has decided not to proceed with the Petaling Jaya Traffic Dispersal Link (PJD Link) highway construction project.

Unity government spokesman Fahmi Fadzil said the decision was made after the concessionaire failed to meet six of the 11 conditions.

"However, it is important to note that the cabinet agreed that there would be no extension of time to meet the remaining requirement precedents.

"Previously, the company applied twice for an extension to meet the set conditions. As a result of that failure, the project was not continued," he said in a press conference here, today, adding that the Works Ministry would issue a further statement on this matter.

In July last year, Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari announced the cancellation of the proposed PJD Link elevated highway project.

The project, estimated to cost more than RM2 billion, was approved in April 2022 by the previous federal government under former prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Amirudin, before the project's cancellation, said it had only been given conditional approval.

He had said that should it fail to meet requirements, it would share the same fate as the proposed Kinrara-Damansara Expressway which was shelved in 2015.

The 14.9km expressway was supposed to connect the Damansara–NKVE interchange of the New Klang Valley Expressway to Bandar Kinrara and aimed to reduce the travel time between Damansara and Kinrara by 25 per cent.

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