GEORGE TOWN: The
second Penang bridge is 3% ahead of schedule and is expected to be ready by
October next year, said Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
He said the
construction work was proceeding well.
“Although the bridge
was expected to be ready in 2014, it is now expected to be completed earlier
based on the progress of construction,” he said at a press conference here
yesterday.
Lim said that
according to completion schedule, the progress of construction was supposed to
be 67.71% but it had reached 70.7%.
In October last
year, Works Minister Datuk Seri Shaziman Abu Mansor had said the bridge was 65%
completed and expected to be ready earlier than its November 2013 deadline.
He expressed
confidence the project would be ready two months earlier than scheduled.
On another matter,
Lim said the handing out of white ang pow during Perkasa’s Chinese New Year
open house at Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur, was an insult to the Chinese
community.
The Star Online
Wednesday February 1, 2012
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