A DECISION has yet to be made on the crooked bridge across the Causeway, and talk of the project’s revival are still at proposal stage, said Johor DAP chief Liew Chin Tong.

The deputy defence minister also denied that he was opposed to the project first mooted by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 2013.

“There has been no decision yet, it’s best is to have a discussion before any action is taken.

“The proposal is to further improve the situation,” he told reporters at Parliament lobby today.

He was adding to his remarks yesterday that the crooked bridge was not a priority and that the third link bridge was the better option.

At the point, Chin said the focus of the government was to resolve the traffic congestion at the Centre for Immigration and Quarantine and the third link bridge.

Earlier this week, Johor Menteri Besar Osman Sapian said the crooked bridge proposal could be revived.

The project failed to take off after Singapore objected to the it and  refused to dismantle a portion of its part of the Causeway.

Former prime minister Najib Razak said yesterday Singapore wished to keep the causeway wants to keep the Causeway for the next three decades as a connection between the republic and Johor.

Najib said he was told of the matter during a discussion with the Singapore government when he was still prime minister.

He said he had then proposed to the city state to do away with the Causeway to allow a new bridge to be built. – October 18, 2018.