This article highlights key issues that shaped Petaling Jaya in 2024, focusing on the controversial revival of the Petaling Jaya Dispersal Link (PJD Link) and the city's planning for its senior citizen population, the highest in the country.
Aerial view of Petaling Jaya showing Menara MBPJ in the centre and Dataran Petaling Jaya (foreground). Infrastructure proposals, market disruptions and planning for senior citizens were among issues that cropped up in the city AS THE year comes to an end, StarMetro highlights key issues that shaped Petaling Jaya , Selangor, in 2024.
These range from the controversial revival of Petaling Jaya Dispersal Link (PJD Link) to addressing the needs of its senior citizen population, the highest in the country.The PJD Link road project remained a contentious topic among the public, with its status shifting repeatedly. Formerly known as Kinrara Damansara Expressway (Kidex), it was initially cancelled in February 2015 due to technical reasons, as announced by then Selangor mentri besar Datuk Seri Azmin Ali. Just before the Selangor state elections in 2023, the then caretaker Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari in a press statement said the PJD Link project was cancelled due to an unsatisfactory social impact assessment (SIA). Rajiv (standing, centre) addressing the Petaling Jaya community’s concerns on PJD Link at a gathering in July. This announcement, however, only brought temporary relief to concerned residents as debate on the matter resurfaced in March this year, when Kampung Tunku assemblyman Lim Yi Wei and Bukit Gasing elected representative Rajiv Rishyakaran called for the project’s permanent cancellation. While Rajiv suggested another MRT or LRT rail line be built to address traffic issues instead, Lim said if the PJD Link alignment were to change, the matter had to be discussed with the Federal Government. There are many shuttered or unoccupied lots at Pasar Besar Jalan Othman, an indication of its low occupancy rat
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