| By Rosli Abidin
Yahya
Members of the public voiced
their concern over the sudden appearances of road humps over
some public roads in several neighbourhoods, which they allege
was constructed without the consent of the relevant agency.
They understood the need to
protect the neighbourhoods from traffic impacts while
maintaining excellent access to businesses in the community
through the common type of traffic calming improvement, by
installing road humps in many residential neighbourhoods.
Officials at the Road Section,
Public Works Department said that such construction of road
humps without prior permission from the relevant authority is
never allowed. However, they need to scrutinise the alleged
areas before they could tell whether such construction was done
without such approval.
"We were concerned about
road humps constructed only a few feet apart in between the
boundary of a house while the road is meant for public
use," said one of the officials.
"We understand the need to
slow down vehicles but if all the houses on the street have
humps then they became unnecessary burden to the public, not to
mention the long-term damage it would cause to vehicles."
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