Talkback Tuesday: What's in a name?

Last month, residents and companies in PJ were up in arms over the one-way road change within the PJ State area. There was a lot of confusion and traffic jams, with upset drivers claiming that there weren’t sufficient signages to explain the change.

Today, it has been announced that 8 roads will be renamed from tomorrow (November 26th) onwards. The names of these roads will be changed to honour previous royal heads of state. And we’re talking about some major roads like Jalan Duta, Jalan Ipoh and Lebuhraya Mahameru to name a few.

The last time a road renaming exercise took place was in 2008 and DBKL had to bear the brunt of the criticism from the public. The “victim” was Jalan Alor, the hawker food street famous for the last 35 years. It’s new name was Jalan Kejora.

Social media has been on fire since this announcement with many wondering why there should be a change in the first place and why there’s been a lack of public consultation. The onslaught of fiery comments also comes at the back of yesterday’s report of DBKL wanting to demolish their current 12-storey Tower 2 and replace it with a skyscraper “to create more office space”. The projects cost’ is expected to be within the 7-figure mark.

While it’ll be interesting to see what DBKL and the government will have to say about this in the next few days, this evening, we wanted to know how this road renaming exercise will affect either you or your business?