Batang Kali-Genting Highlands road on track for May 2024 reopening
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The Batang Kali-Genting Highlands road is still closed after a landslide in December 2022 claimed the lives of 31 people.
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SHAH ALAM, Selangor – The Batang Kali-Genting Highlands road is expected to be reopened to the public by May 2024 after the scheduled completion of repairs in March 2024.
Selangor infrastructure and agriculture committee chairman Izham Hashim said progress on slope repair and stabilisation work had reached almost 40 per cent so far.
“We started repairing the slopes on May 28, and expect (the work) to be completed on March 29 next year. We will consider reopening the road to Genting Highlands by May next year when everything is ready,” he said at the state assembly sitting yesterday, Bernama reported.
“We have also researched the appropriate engineering method and found that the TerraLink wall system design is the most suitable for the conditions of the site (slope), which is quite narrow.”
He was responding to a question from MP R. Rajiv on the status of the Batang Kali landslide tragedy
Mr Izham had previously said that only one lane of the road was open, and it was restricted to workers in the Genting Highlands area.
The tragedy that happened at 2.30am on Dec 16, 2022, claimed the lives of 31 campers, including 13 children, out of a total of 92 victims, after a landslide buried the Father’s Organic Farm camping area in Batang Kali.
In October, a 143-page forensic report prepared by the Slope Engineering Branch of the Public Works Department concluded that the incident was the result of natural causes.
Rainfall and seepage flow were among two significant factors that triggered the landslide, it said. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
