Please do sign up & join the BASRA Guarded Scheme. Let us be good neighbors & make our Burhanuddin-Athinahapan Area a safer & more secure neighborhood. Contact your STREET REPRESENTATIVES now. FYI - these Streets Reps are volunteering their time & energy for us all. Please email ttdisecure@yahoo.com for more details.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

TTDI residents wrangle over gated concerns

A The Star news article published on Tuesday October 27, 2009.

A tug of war is brewing in the posh neighbourhood of Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) as one group is out to create a gated and guarded community while the other disagrees.

The TTDI Facebook page, its Google group and the local media has been abuzz with debates on the pros and cons of the guarded community concept.

A few months ago, a young man was held at knifepoint for a mere RM12 and a handphone. The five thugs on two motorcycles sped off within minutes and that was the last straw for the youth’s father Mohd Hatim Abdullah, the project co-ordinator of the TTDI guarded community committee.

To read the rest, please go to http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/10/27/central/4737698&sec=central