{"id":4561,"date":"2013-12-23T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2013-12-23T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T13:35:13","slug":"bukit-kiara-not-all-is-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=4561","title":{"rendered":"Bukit Kiara: Not All Is Well<\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year after the infamous Bukit KIara fencing\u00a0project was brought to a halt by then Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung,\u00a0the Friends of Bukit Kiara (FoBK) received a letter from Jabatan Landskap Negara (JLN) that the fence would be completed, instead of removed…:-(<\/p>\n

Again a protest march was organised, the third one, on 28 September 2013. I could not attend as I was traveling in Europe. According to a STAR report<\/a>\u00a0more than 2000 people took part in this peaceful demonstration<\/p>\n

\"Protest<\/a><\/p>\n

Did the walk have any positive effect? Not at all. Soon the bulldozers started again, trees were felled, access roads created, forest destroyed. This part of the fence is separating Bukit Kiara from the Sprint highway. Only bikers come here, they noticed that several of their trails were blocked and\/or destroyed.<\/p>\n

\"fencing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"access<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a map of Kiara with the fence. Thanks to TRAKS. The yellow part has been recently constructed. As you see, there is a tiny part of the park fenced in between the highway and the plot leased by Berjaya.<\/p>\n

\"Kiara<\/a><\/p>\n

In an earlier blog, called Birdbrains?<\/a>\u00a0, I had already explored this location, after the work was stopped. Here is a picture from that blog, showing that they were really planning to build the fence in this moronic way.<\/p>\n

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Now that this part of the fence has been completed, I was of course curious to see if JLN had really continued this folly. They did, this is what I found<\/p>\n

\"Kiara<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Narrowing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a few more pictures, taken recently during a hike with Dr Pola Singh.<\/p>\n\n\t\t