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10-04-2005, 09:16 AM
THE MALAY MAIL
April 9, 2005
‘Turn Subang park into green lung’
April 9, Subang Jaya: It is time to gazette Subang Ria Park as a green lung.
This is Subang Jaya resident and activist Lau Bing' s plea to the Federal and State Governments.
Lau, who has collected more than 2,500 signatures from visitors to the park beside the Holiday Villa Hotel over the last month, is keeping his fingers crossed.
He hopes the need to gazette all green lungs would be raised in Parliament soon.
Lau said that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had urged State governments to gazette open spaces as early as August 2003.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting made a similar call on April 6 for all local councils to comply with a Government order in 2003 to gazette all green lungs and turn open spaces into green lungs.
Lau said: "The 30ha park is in a sorry state. It has a go-kart centre, a futsal centre, a paintball centre, a private fishing pond and the Crocodile Farm Restaurant.
"All these have taken away half of the land and the public has to pay to enter these centres. By right, a public park must not impose any fees on its users." He added that the park's facilities had deteriorated.
"The exercise stations are worn out, the gazebos have been demolished, there is no lighting, toilets, stand pipes or children's facilities," he said.
"The amphitheatre is in a sorry state and has become a mosquito-breeding ground. The jogging track has also deteriorated. The benches are broken, and there is soil erosion in the car park." Lau said that he had written to Abdullah, Ong, Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo and the Subang Jaya Municipal Council last month.
"Their intervention will save the park, which benefits not only residents of Subang Jaya but the whole of Klang Valley." Lau said the park played a key role in enticing him to move into the township when it first began in the 1980s.
"Hundreds of others who moved in back then, had the park in mind." Lau also called on The Malay Mail to run a campaign to save the park along the lines of the campaign to save the Ulu Klang Recreational Park in 2003.
"If the park cannot be handled with care by the private developer which owns it, we residents strongly urge the park to be managed as a green lung by the State Government." The park belongs to developer Sime UEP.
SOURCE: http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/MM/Saturday/National/20050409112107/Article/index_html
April 9, 2005
‘Turn Subang park into green lung’
April 9, Subang Jaya: It is time to gazette Subang Ria Park as a green lung.
This is Subang Jaya resident and activist Lau Bing' s plea to the Federal and State Governments.
Lau, who has collected more than 2,500 signatures from visitors to the park beside the Holiday Villa Hotel over the last month, is keeping his fingers crossed.
He hopes the need to gazette all green lungs would be raised in Parliament soon.
Lau said that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had urged State governments to gazette open spaces as early as August 2003.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting made a similar call on April 6 for all local councils to comply with a Government order in 2003 to gazette all green lungs and turn open spaces into green lungs.
Lau said: "The 30ha park is in a sorry state. It has a go-kart centre, a futsal centre, a paintball centre, a private fishing pond and the Crocodile Farm Restaurant.
"All these have taken away half of the land and the public has to pay to enter these centres. By right, a public park must not impose any fees on its users." He added that the park's facilities had deteriorated.
"The exercise stations are worn out, the gazebos have been demolished, there is no lighting, toilets, stand pipes or children's facilities," he said.
"The amphitheatre is in a sorry state and has become a mosquito-breeding ground. The jogging track has also deteriorated. The benches are broken, and there is soil erosion in the car park." Lau said that he had written to Abdullah, Ong, Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo and the Subang Jaya Municipal Council last month.
"Their intervention will save the park, which benefits not only residents of Subang Jaya but the whole of Klang Valley." Lau said the park played a key role in enticing him to move into the township when it first began in the 1980s.
"Hundreds of others who moved in back then, had the park in mind." Lau also called on The Malay Mail to run a campaign to save the park along the lines of the campaign to save the Ulu Klang Recreational Park in 2003.
"If the park cannot be handled with care by the private developer which owns it, we residents strongly urge the park to be managed as a green lung by the State Government." The park belongs to developer Sime UEP.
SOURCE: http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/MM/Saturday/National/20050409112107/Article/index_html