Image source: Guang Ming Daily
The upgrade of the federal road FT006, from Teluk Kumbar to the Penang International Airport (LTAPP), near here, which costs RM390 million, is expected to be completed this December.
Penang Umno liaison committee chairman Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Osman said the road would be made fully open to road-users early next year and was expected to increase the number of vehicles to more than 20,000.
“We hope that the three-kilometre four-lane expressway would lessen traffic congestion faced by the people of this state,” he said during a site visit to the project location here today.
He said, improvements which had been carried out since February 2014 showed good progress and everything ran according to schedule.
“The project is now 80 per cent completed and the remaining work will be completed in five or six months more,” he said.
According to Zainal Abidin, the progress included the transfer and reconstruction of community buildings such as a police station and a public hall to the nearby area.
He added, the expenditure of the project was high due to the costly price of land in the state as well as compensation payments to landowners.
Source: Bernama