GEORGE TOWN: The Works Ministry has yet to receive the Penang Undersea Tunnel feasibility and detailed design studies reports promised by the Penang government 18 months ago. Its minister, Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, said today he found the delay in submitting the reports, which were reported to cost RM305 million, “very unusual” as the project was awarded in April 2013. “No construction has begun and the reports costing RM305 million are not fully completed yet. This is despite at least RM220 million having already been paid out by the Penang government,” he said in a statement. Fadillah said Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had written to him in April last year asking for the RM6.3 billion undersea tunnel project to be changed to a third bridge project.

Source: New Strait Times October 09, 2017 12:11 UTC