Assalamu’alaikum wr.wb
Dear Mayor of Samarinda, Mr. Syahrie Jaang, SH,Msi
Best regard from us, we hope you always be in a good condition and always have the spirit to develop this city in order to make Samarinda become a better place for living. We also send our prayer to you and your family, in hope that you are given the fortitude to deal with several sharp criticism from society who want to make Samarinda become a better city.
First of all, we would like to intoduce ourselves. I am Amalia Firdausya Putri Purnomo and Elmerilia Faridhatijannah are high school student from SMA Negeri 10 Samarinda, through this letter we would like to convey an issue which is faced by society about infrastructure development in Samarinda, particularly regarding the flyover construction which is located in 4-way intersection of Air Hitam.
As we know that the flyover construction which is located in 4-way intersection of Air Hitam that has been worked on since early 2013 still has not finished until now, April 2016. The delay time that happens continuously on this flyover construction has caused several problems towards our society. Those problems are :
1. Congestion
Number of vehicles that pile up day by day around flyover construction due to narrowness of the street can not be avoided and eventually this condition lead us into congestion.
2. The increasing number of accident
Many accident that endanger the lives of drivers, especially motorcycle riders, frequently occurred around the flyover construction area.
3. Filthy environment
There are so many remnants of construction materials that was not cleaned, such as gravel, sand, which is easily to be found by motorists who is passing through the area around Flyover.
4. Lack of parking space
The existence of the stores which are located around flyover construction have a parking lot, but due to the narrow area, this condition make people quite difficult to park their vehicles freely when they want to take a visit to the stores. This thing also caused the surrounding area of flyover looks increasingly small and crowded.
From all of the problems that we have conveyed above, we demand a firm action from the government to monitor the performance of worker on this flyover construction which still has not been finished and we hope that the government will pay attention to this case attentively. In the beginning, we were promised that the construction of flyover will be finished in early 2016. But unfortunately, our people need to face disappointment because of delay time which is incompatible with the schedule that has been set. The limitation of funds may be a resistor factor to the development of flyover. Therefore, we hope that all the funds allocated for the construction of a flyover is used optimally and focused only for the construction of Flyover. We hope the contractors will work according to the schedule and be more careful in constructing Flyover. Because we have known before that the middle span of flyover had fallen down due to the foundation of flyover that wasn’t strong enough. It also led to delays on construction flyover completion schedule and caused large amount of additional costs to lift up the middle span and to re-create the fallen foundation.
This thing should be used as an evaluation to the contractor and workers so that something like this won’t happen again in the near future. As we know, the situation of local finance has not improved enough, therefore omissions by workers should be minimized immediately so that we don’t need to face the shortage of funds in the construction of flyover again.
The honorable Mayor of Samarinda, you have made a promise that this Flyover could have been used on mid-April 2016. However, if it still can not be done within period of time that has been promised, then it means that you already let us down for a second time. Therefore, we hope that the government will give strict sanctions if delay time on the construction of Flyover happens again. We also hope that the contractors and workers have to be more disciplined in their work. That’s all what we can convey to you and once again, I hope you can fulfil your promise this time.
Sincerely,
Amalia F.P & Emerilia Faridhatijannah
