THE latest incident in Johor where an oversized billboard on the 40m-long metal roof of a pedestrian bridge at the Perling-Pasir Gudang Highway was ripped off by strong winds and resulted in damaging a lorry, two cars and a motorcycle on the road warrants the attention of the authorities.
It should be a wake-up call to all local authorities throughout the country to act urgently in assessing and monitoring existing pedestrian bridges as well as overhead bridges with similar billboards in their respective areas.
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