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林冠英昨日在州议会中动议要求中央政府继续推行总耗资47亿令吉的巨举计划，即单轨火车、槟岛外环公路及扩建孟光水坝计划。他要求中央政府归还47亿令吉给人民。
州议会野党领袖阿查哈阿查哈认为以上三项计划都是私营化计划，中央只负责拨出4亿9400万令吉作为土地征用、勘测及顾问费等前期工作开销，其余则由私人公司承担。林冠英反驳说，他认为这3大计划并非私营化计划，而是中央计划。
行动党政府要在单轨火车、槟岛外环公路计划的立场上翻来翻去，或说痛改前非，并非不可，只要光明正大向选民道歉，学黄泉安公开在自己脸上盖两个耳光，再三鞠躬，承认行动党在野时反对这两项计划是错误的，此后，即可合理化要求中央政府继续推行这些大型计划。
1)我们先来看看槟州政府的官方说法，槟州政府官方网站www.penang.gov.my自己这么说：单轨火车乃私人融资计划，部分经费由中央政府资助。这不就吻合了在野党议员的说法了吗？
State Government Presently Working With Economic Planning Unit On LMT Proposal- Federal Government has agreed on LMT project in Penang based on Private Finance Iniatiative. Cost to be party subsidized by the Federal Government.
2)我们再来回顾历史，看看下文摘录林吉祥六年前如何修理槟岛外环公路这项私营化计划(点击连接原文)，看看林吉祥如何宏观，如何远视，如何关注人民的利益与保护环境及古迹。
The 10-day PORR alignment exhibition should be extended for another month, accompanied by a wide-ranging public consultation and feedback process involving the Federal and Penang State Governments, the Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the Malaysian Highway Authority, the Penang State Government and the Penang Municipal Council and the ratepayers and people of Penang as many questions about the transparency, justice, viability, compability with the policy of sustainable transport have not been answered.
Firstly, on transparency. Why should the PORR project be privatized without open tender to the company, Peninsular Metroworks Sdn.Bhd., which has no track record in highway construction, with only a paid-up capital of only RM50,000 – and according to the Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Dr. Hilmi Yahaya in the Penang State Assembly on Friday, with “some of its shareholders who had previously been declared bankrupt”!
The people of Penang do not want PORR to join the ignominous list of failed privisatisation mega-projects with the taxpayers having to bail out the Midas from bankruptcy at public expense.
The second issue is the justice of the PORR project to more than 150,000 people on the island or over 20 per cent of the population who would be affected by the project, including the some 200 dwellings – 76 private houses, 70 government quarters and 50 squatter homes – temples, shrines and cemeteries directly affected. The depreciation of property values of those not directly affected by the alignment as well as the costs of social and environmental degradation of PORR should be given full and fair consideration.
What Penang needs is an efficient public transport system based on sustainable transport policy, as PORR is not a medium-term let alone long-term solution to the traffic congestion nightmare on the island.
Immediate attention must be given to the drawing up of a viable public transport masterplan that can be implemented in the next two years to achieve the reduction of traffic congestion, considering options like an efficient public bus system, the monorail, LRT, etc. so that Penang can be a role model of sustainable transportation instead of being the latest victim of motorization and the destruction of architecture, heritage and culture.
