PKR Supreme Council member - Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen was on site to inspect the scene, expressed concern over the incident that took place which resulted in the collision between a Sabah Railway train and a fuel tanker yesterday in Kapayan which is in the vicinity of the city.
This incident revealed gross negligece by the part of the relevant authorities in handling of the long standing decade long issues of illegal crossings & private crossings along the railway track from Tanjong Aru all the way up to Tenom. It was claimed that there are hundreds if not thousands of such crossings.
However Dr Roland Chia was relieved that there were no fatalities apart from the reported 12 injuries and wished them rapid recovery. PKR urged the relevant authorities to come up with immediate solutions & answers so that no more lives will perish and also no more lives will be injured which will result in anguish and pain to the families affected.
This accident has also caused a huge explosion at Jalan Kepayan-Jalan Lintas junction near the Kota Kinabalu international airport here which resulted in massive traffic jam and delayed in commuters and car travelers going back home.
This is the second incident that involved the only railway services in Sabah. The earlier was an incident in 2008 in Tenom that rendered 2 fatalities and many injured when the train jumped the tracks and plunged into the Padas river.
Dr Roland Chia urged the government to come out with answers/solutions to the perennial problems as a result of this incident.
1. A Sabah Railways spokesman described the crossing as illegal. Many residents that lived along the railway tracks from Tanjong Aru right up to tenom claimed that there are hundreds if not thousands of such illegal crossings. But the government is silent in solving this long standing problems that has been decades long . If this is a illegal crossing- why there was no concerted effort to resolve this illegal crossings? Ie consultation with residents and commercial owners concern?
2. Why weren’t there any automatic gates at major level crossings being put up especially where one involves a petrol station that is near the vicinity?
3. Aren't there supposed to be crossing barriers with alarm sound constructed at every crossing junctions to warn vehicle drivers of oncoming trains? So who's at fault now? There were even claims that some of these thousands and thousands of ringgits at major level crossings are not functioning.
Now the so called delayed tax payers money of RM400 Million railway upgrade project awarded back in 2006 that was scheduled to be completed in 2008 followed by another delay of 18months – which was only commissioned early this year has gone down the drain.
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