KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 — Opposition party DAP today took the federal government to task for the failure of a RM565 million traffic management system.
“About RM565 million will have been spent on a traffic management system that failed when similar systems in other countries such as Singapore or Hong Kong are successful,” DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng said in a statement.
The Integrated Transport Information System was launched in 2002 for RM365 million to solve traffic congestion in Kuala Lumpur and this year an additional RM200 million was pumped in to rescue and revive it.
“This begs the question why other countries can succeed whilst ours fails despite spending hundreds of millions of ringgit,” Lim added.
He urged the federal government to “punish severely the wrongdoers who wasted public funds on a system that simply failed to work.”
