Loo wants truth about progress of tunnel feasibility study

GEORGE TOWN: Penang Gerakan Youth is demanding that the DAP-led state government explain the true progress of the feasibility study being conducted on the George Town-Butterworth Undersea Tunnel project.

Its acting youth chief Jason Loo alleged that for the past two years, the Penang government has often repeated that the study was “83% complete.”

“We can only wonder what the deadline given to the company was to complete the feasibility study, Detailed Environment Impact Assessment and other reports on the undersea tunnel.

“When queried further on when it (feasibility study) would be completed, they say “soon, soon”. How long more?” he questioned in a press conference at Komtar today.

Earlier Loo talked about the red tape involved in the application of four documents pertaining to the RM6.3 billion undersea tunnel and three paired road project under the state’s Freedom of Information Enactment.

Yesterday, state Public Works, Utilities and Transportation Committee chairman Lim Hock Seng told reporters that the feasibility study on the mega project would not go to waste, should the Penang Government choose to build a third bridge instead of the undersea tunnel.

He said the components in the study were almost identical to what was required for the construction of a third bridge.

Meanwhile General Manager of Consortium Zenith-BUCG Sdn Bhd (CZBUCG), Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli said the feasibility study could be replicated as it was on the same alignment.

CZBUCG won the open tender bid to build the undersea tunnel and the three paired road project and were entrusted as well to conduct the feasibility study for the project.

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