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Under the new leadership of former minister Khairy Jamaluddin, the Bukit Damansara House Owners Association held its town hall on Saturday (Aug 8) to discuss and address issues related to the residents' livelihood.

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00:04Unfortunately, those traffic lights are non-smart traffic lights.
00:07They are logo traffic lights.
00:10First of all, my name is Khairi Jamal Lin.
00:13They call me KJ.
00:17Despite the many hats that I wear,
00:21within the postcode of 50490,
00:25I'm nothing else. I'm just your neighbor.
00:28A lot of us are concerned about commercial license at Plaza Damansara.
00:34I took my office at the front parking.
00:38You cannot expect it for the residents to now...
00:41Oh, they are not comfortable, now I make it myself.
00:43All these 95% solved cases are because of the system.
00:49We would like to have some clarity from BBKL.
00:52What is actually the licensing machine for Plaza Damansara?
00:56We are happy to have restaurants and bars in Phuket Damansara.
01:00A lot of us are happy when we go there also.
01:02But ultimately Phuket Damansara is a residential area.
01:05And we don't want to end up being like our sister residential area.
01:10I shall not mention their name.
01:12We all know who it is.
01:14When it's been overrun by entertainment outlets and it's no longer the bangsa that we remember.
01:21Oops, sorry.
01:23It's no longer the bangsa that we remember.
01:25So that's one.
01:27Secondly, I think just in terms of a bucket of questions that I wanted to also address is pedestrian access.
01:34So there's a lot of complaints.
01:36We also want to use public transport.
01:38I think all of us, we're happy that there are two big MRT stations in Phuket Damansara.
01:43One in Smantan and one in the old Phuket Damansara.
01:46But to access the Khuset Damansara MIT station, we are forced to go through pavilion.
01:51We don't want to go through pavilion.
01:53And we don't know why there's no pedestrian access to get there.
01:57And it's really, really unfair for us to have to go through pavilion if we don't want to go through
02:01pavilion.
02:02So that's another one.
02:03And of course the other thing is I think these traffic concerns where traffic from BSC into Jalan Johar is
02:13a nightmare.
02:14And so accountability is not just about having this position.
02:19I live amongst all of you.
02:20And as I started this town hall, I said please regard me as your neighbor, regardless of whatever else I
02:27might be.
02:28So I'm here.
02:29I want to be accountable.
02:30I'll make sure that we follow up on each and every one of these complaints, suggestions as much as possible.
02:39If there are things that we can't do, I will be honest with you.
02:42And the next time we meet at a town hall, maybe we can have this as an annual session.
02:47I'll have to tell you that this was just simply possible.
02:50Because the policy does not allow for it or budget doesn't allow for it.
02:55But I think the least that I can do with you is to be honest about the progress that has
03:00taken place
03:01and to answer at least one of your complaints.
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