He said the bridge, proposed to be built from Gurney Drive and Bagan Ajam, might affect Penang Port, which is important for Penang’s economic development.
“The development of Penang Port attracts foreign investment and if it is cast aside, Penang will lose its competitiveness as the ‘golden triangle’ of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
“Lim wants to kill this (golden) goose of Penang?” he asked in a statement here today.
Pointing out that the project was just another random promise by the chief minister, Tan said even if the undersea tunnel plan was cancelled, the DAP-led state government had already given a large sum of the people’s money to the successful bidder.
“Why only now Lim Guan Eng wants to abolish the undersea tunnel plan?”
Lim is seeking the Federal Government’s approval to build Penang’s third bridge, and it was reported that if approval was given, the state government would drop the undersea tunnel project.
On Tuesday, Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan said Lim’s request to approve Penang’s third bridge via a letter to the works minister, without any supporting documents, was appalling.
He was reported as saying that no government in the world would have approved such a request based on a letter without proper documentation, in-depth studies or deliberation.
— BERNAMA