Traders at 10 MPKj stalls to be temporarily relocated

The Star, Thursday August 1, 2013

By CHOO WOON LIM

Making way: Traders at the row of stalls along Lorong Mendaling, Kajang will be relocated to a parking lot nearby due to works on the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang line.

TRADERS renting 10 stalls belonging to the Kajang Municipal Council (MPKj) along Lorong Mendaling, Kajang, will have to relocate their businesses temporarily to a parking lot further down the road on Sept 1. 

Speaking at the council’s full board meeting yesterday, MPKj president Datuk Hasan Nawawi Abd Rahman said the relocation was to make way for works on the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang line. 

The row of stalls, he said, will be demolished this month, along with the Hulu Langat MCA building located nearby. 

Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (Prasarana), which is carrying out the MRT project, will commission contractors to build temporary premises for the traders at the parking lot about 200m away. 

“The traders will have to operate at the temporary premises for at least six months,” said Hasan. 

He added that they would be able to move back to the original site after the MRT works in the area were completed and that Prasarana would build new lots to replace the demolished ones. 

Hasan said there would be no compensation for the traders as they were only leasing the stalls from MPKj. 

“The traders have been leasing the premises since 1995. Their tender ends in 2015.” 

Hasan also said MPKj was planning to build the new council town hall in Saujana Impian following the demolition of the original town hall in Jalan Besar in February to make way for the MRT line. 

“We are looking into cost, building design and other aspects now and will announce details once finalised,” he said.