This made us question why there is such a need. Though we know that this building belongs to UDA, a government-owned firm, it just need some common sense and engineering study to avoid all this. First, we knew that part of Jalan Sultan will be demolished, also because of MRT, now it's BB Plaza's turn.
Little did the government or City Hall realized that many of the landmarks has been taken away and transformed into something modern. This also resulted in KL becoming more and more a modern city, that doesn't have anything to show to people that it was actually built in the 19th century. Instead of putting us in a proud position as a well-maintained heritage city, we chose to be a continuously developing young city such as Dubai.
Few of the gone and soon to be gone landmarks are as below.
1) Stadium Merdeka
2) Stadium Negara
3) Chin Woo Stadium
4) Pudu Jail
5) Klang Bus Stand
6) Jalan Sultan shops
7) BB Plaza
If you have the chance to go to Europe, you will notice that you won't see a megamalls or shopping complexes in the city center old town area such as Gamla Stan (Stockholm), Montmartre (Paris) and Barcelona.
What the MRT company is doing is really unnecessary and unfortunate. They choose to let their kids learn about this buildings from History books, rather than Geography books.
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