Mayor Amin Nordin Abd Aziz said this in response to Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor’s statement yesterday on DBKL considering such a proposal in order to reduce traffic congestion in the city.
“This will be in the plans for KL’s future development,” he told reporters briefly after attending DBKL’s 2017 Labour Day celebration.
“When the MRT construction is completed, we don’t see a need for parking bays.”
When asked what DBKL could do about the lack of parking space for commuters at trains stations in the city, the mayor said, “SPAD (Land Public Transport Commission) should answer that”.
Yesterday, Tengku Adnan, who is also known as Ku Nan, told reporters about the plan to bar parking bays in the city in an effort to reduce traffic jams and encourage people to take public transport.
He added not having parking bays in buildings had become a trend in developed cities such as Tokyo, London, and Melbourne and that Kuala Lumpur would follow suit.
Ku Nan’s statement received mixed reaction from stakeholders in the city.
The Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP) had welcomed the move but said that a detailed research must be conducted first.
MIP president Ihsan Zainal Mokhtar said the policy would be beneficial in the long run, although DBKL should look into the city planning itself in a comprehensive manner.
Seputeh MP Teresa Kok of DAP, however, criticised the minister’s proposal, saying he had lost touch with what was happening on the ground.
“He ignores the problems of traffic and transport, and he does not want to give enough parking places to people who work and stay in KL,” she said.
MRT’s Sungai Buloh-Kajang line is expected to be fully operational on July 31.
The first phase of the Sungai Buloh-Kajang line, from Sungai Buloh to the Semantan station in Damansara, was opened on Dec 16, last year.
‘No parking bays a good move if public transport up to scratch’