With Jalan Cheras Hartamas serving as their only access to their apartment, residents from several housing estates in Cheras raised concern over the proposed construction of a 47-storey serviced apartment project at Lot Pt 15287, Jalan Cheras Hartamas in Kuala Lumpur – saying it could bring about traffic woes, reported The Star.
The residents are from Taman Bukit Segar, Taman Cheras Hartamas, Taman Bukit Segar Jaya 2 and 3 as well as Taman Danau Mas.
“We are concerned as it is a high-density project with 960 units on a 1.13ha land. It is not a low-density bungalow project which the land was supposed to be used for,” said Pangsapuri Cengal Joint Body Management chairman Selina Yap following the first hearing against the project.
“Jalan Cheras Hartamas is the only access road for the proposed serviced apartment as well.”
She noted that some of the residents at the 208-unit Pangsapuri Cengal also park their cars along Jalan Cheras Hartamas.
“If this project goes through, can you imagine the number of cars using the road, and parking outside the new apartment if there is insufficient parking bays?”
Yap also called for a new Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) study on the area as the TIA submitted by the project’s developer contained inaccurate data.
This comes as the traffic count was performed on 20 January, which was a “Friday and a week before Chinese New Year so the amount of cars on the road would not have been as much”.
She added that while the residents were not opposed to development, they wanted a low-density project only.
Meanwhile, Edward Liao, director of Amber Homes Sdn Bhd, the project’s developer, explained that they had downsized the project from 1,130 units to 960.
“The TIA was done based on the 1,130 units and it passed,” he said.
“Also, the project is 50m from the Taman Connaught MRT station and the whole point of it is to utilise the infrastructure that the government had invested in.”
Based on the TIA, Jalan Cheras Hartamas was classified as “Level A” or underutilised, and would remain at that level in 2027, added Liao.
Image sourced from The Star
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