Concrete way to better roads

Highway of fear. the miri to bintulu part of the pan borneo highway is notorious for highway robberies staged by gangsters along the route so much so that travellers fear even to help those whose cars had broke down. stephenthen pic Stephen Then Vui Budget - PPR flats for Budget story.

A COUPLE of months ago, I visited a friend at Kampung Olak Lempit in Kuala Langat, Selangor. It is a quaint little village where one can still buy five relatively big slices of pisang goreng for RM1.

It wasn’t the pisang goreng that excited me but a sleek 1.8km stretch of concrete road which has been the pride and joy of the kampung folks for the past 30 years. Called Jalan Seribu Tahun (JST) or Thousand Year Road, it was constructed with the blood, sweat and tears of the kampung folks with a little help from others. They toiled during the day, and during Ramadan, they worked at night after the terawih prayers.