SARIKEI: It has been explained that the closure of the Pan Borneo Highway in the Jakar section here is only temporary, for two months.
A news report from Sarawak Public Communications Unit (UKAS) quoted it as saying, the closure aims to guarantee the safety of road users as the work to put of sewers and retaining walls will be carried out in that section.
In order to ease strain on the residents, particularly Jakar Town’s traders, it was stated that the construction of retaining walls and sewers would be completed as quickly as possible.
Yesterday the representative of Sarikei Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Huang Tiong Sii, Kapitan Ling Dien Yong together with a delegation from the Sarawak Pan Borneo Highway, the Public Works Department (PWD) and traders held a survey of the Pan Borneo Highway Site at Jakar.
It followed complaints from traders in Jakar that business had been affected due to the closure of the construction of the Pan Borneo Highway at CH 42+500.
In the meantime, Huang who is also the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change cum Repok assemblyman hopes that the construction of the Pan Borneo Highway in Sarawak can be completed on schedule.
After that, they went to the Foochow Sarikei Association Cemetery to survey the development of tarred road.
The existing tarred road was too inclined and that road users do not see vehicles on the road passing by.
Pan Borneo promised to complete the new road work to enter the cemetery before the coming Ching Ming Festival.
In addition, the PWD was suggested to provide all safety equipment on each construction route of the Pan Borneo Highway.
