Bellview Business Centre, Farlim

About 3 years ago, i was told that the population in Bandar Baru Air Itam or in short Farlim, was 60,000 and that was before the Asian Height apartments and Crytal Apartments were luanched and now, it is almost touching 100,000 people living in this new township. It is amazing how the town have grown after Farlim SB launched their first project about 20 years ago.

In this township, there are three super and hyper markets, many coffee shops and eateries and the traffic coming into this township have leap and leap and there are massive traffic jams on a raining day or when Green Lane traffic is slow or massive. That is the only logical way for travellers travelling to town or to Prai.

Recently, the road leading to Batu Lanchang Lane was widen to three lane and some areas there are traffic lights to the new Bellview apartments which converge the traffic into two lanes. Worst still, the Bellview apar tment and condos upon completion will provide accomodation of about 700 unit to 700 families and about 1000 cars assuming one family have one and half cars. This is not the end of it. Included in the Bellview apartments and condos are 130 units of commercial shoplots housing Starbuck, COffee Bean, Giant hypermarts and various type of eateries and this means more and more traffic will converge into this township. It is an unimagined fiasco, messy and chaotic mess in the traffic arrangements. It is as if we can see that disaster is going to happen and the whole township is suffocating and choking to death

The township is so congested, there is bound to have security and social problems apart from the traffic woes. In fact, there was already complaints that the traffic is moving too fast and the widen roads have been used like highways and it is dangerous to travel on this roads.

There is a definite need for the developers ot build more roads leading out of the township so that the town can breath and becomes more vibrant. The township need to be re-structured and there is already an oversupply of low cost houses which mingles with middle cost apartments and landed properties of semi houses and terrace houses.

For my readers, it is advisable to avoid coming into Farlim on a Wednesday, where there is a pasar malam which attracts visitors from far and near apart from the food outlets which is plentiful.

Have a safe journey in this over crowded land.

Namaste.