KKR rejects a report that ranked Malaysia’s roads as the world’s 12th-worst.
Malaysia is home to the 12th worst roads in the world, according to a local newspaper’s article yesterday. This claim has been refuted by the Works Ministry (KKR).
The report, according to the ministry, misrepresents Malaysia’s overall road quality and is false and deceptive. It also stated that the report used as a source for the article was one produced by the online driver’s education company Zutobi, which only considered data from 59 countries and only calculated the scores based on four variables: road quality, improvements in road quality, road deaths, and the relative size of the road network.
The road quality in Malaysia is among the top 21 in the world, surpassing Australia, Britain, and New Zealand, according to a report by Utusan Malaysia on August 10 titled “Kualiti Jalan di Malaysia 21 Terbaik di Dunia, Mengatasi Australia, Britain, New Zealand.” This report was based on the road quality rankings published by The Global Economy using information from the Global Competitiveness Index.
The report also used reliable sources from an executive survey that included 14,000 company executives from 144 nations who attended the Davos, Switzerland-based World Economic Forum.
According to the news source, Malaysia scored 5.3 out of a possible 7 points, placing it ahead of Sweden (23), Canada (31), Australia (33) and Britain (37). After Singapore, Malaysia is rated second in South-east Asia.
In the meantime, KKR said that as a check and balance strategy to guarantee the provision of the greatest services for the public, it constantly pays attention to all published research studies. KKR has a number of continuing responsibilities, particularly in preserving the calibre of the nation’s roads. These upkeep tasks are concentrated on the 20,017 kilometres of Federal Roads.
Additionally, KKR was given around RM 900,000 to cover the expense of national road upkeep. 6,656 potholes had been repaired as of August. The ministry claimed that ongoing measures to preserve road quality were also a priority, including the Zeropotholes campaign, which began in 2016, and the Kita Jaga Jalan Kita Campaign, which was introduced in November 2021.
