NEGRI Sembilan Menteri Besar Aminuddin Harun said the construction of a bridge across Sungai Sepang linking Bukit Pelandok in Port Dickson with Sungai Pelek in Sepang is expected to begin next year. 

He said the state government was in the process of acquiring the site for the project as well as approval from the Selangor government as it involved land acquisition there. 

 “When it involves two states, Selangor also has to do work, Negri Sembilan also has to do work… we don’t seem to have any problems (working together), but there is land acquisition that needs to be looked at,” he added. 

Aminuddin, who is also the state’s Investment, Infrastructure, Utility and Public Facilities Action Committee chairman, was responding to a supplementary question from Yew Boon Lye (Chuah-PH) on the status of the proposed bridge road project. 

Aminuddin said the road alignment for the project had been agreed upon by the Rural and Regional Ministry and was tabled at the state planning meeting on September 19. 

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, when tabling the 2023 Budget, reportedly said the government would build roads and bridges costing RM160 million to reduce traffic congestion. – Bernama, October 11, 2023.