An Exciting Era in the City of Elmina
February 27, 2023 00:00 am +08

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Hello Elminaians

I am thinkimng of purchasing a house in Elmina Gardens. Have a few questionsnto those who are staying there.

1. Considering there is only one road in and out of Elmina Gardens, is there traffic during thr mornings and evenings during peak hours? This is yet to include those from Ilham.
2. How bad is living with the plane noise on a daily basis?

Thanks.

I’m quite disappointed with the workmanship.
For such a high price, had expected more from Sime Darby.
Anyway, had done the house inspection by professionals, will see how it goes when Sime Darby does the rectification works.

Forget about more exit or entrance point for dash. Very obvious SDP can't influence them on this. Otherwise we shall have better dash access directly from Guthrie which is entirely possible but purposely not been done

Buy at your own risk guys, the traffic goes from bad to worse.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1699337746975...mibextid=Nif5oz

you expect traffic jam of 20-30min in 2km of range in Elmina/Denai Alam during peak hours?

Define prime location.

if 20-30min for 2km at THIS location is making sense for you, you are really good in telling jokes.

What is the size of this township?

How many % left are yet to launch?

How many access to exit to other PRIME LOCATION?

What is the distance from this township to those PRIME LOCATION?

Once you got the answers above i don't think you will still think it's normal and fine for the current traffic condition. Things happened for reason, the opening of Shorea brought vehicles from SU, DC, PA & etc, limited access to GCE/Jalan Sg Buloh and lack of monitor on the timing of traffic lights after E-boulevard.

I've been here since 2018, nowadays traffic starts to build up min 700m from the traffic light at around 6.30am and all the way to 2km at 7.45am. For those who said buyer should expect this, make sure you have been gone through the traffic between 7am-9am & 6pm-8pm.

In case nobody could read the FB link I shared, it's a thread posted in Elmina, Denai Alam & Bukit Subang Residents' group. Trying to get residents to fill up online complain form and a draft is provided with proposal of solutions.

Other than accepting whatever happening to us, taking all these traffic jam as normal in this PRIME LOCATION, the least we can do is lodge the complain & get SDP/MBSA to do something. Something practical before the high rise Habitus & Tulip VPed.

Potential buyer should ask SA, what are the solutions from SDP on this. FYI, city councilor Shakir Ameer had responded in the FB post, saying that they will do something ASAP. Anyway, we need to keep chasing them or else it's possible nothing would have changed.

I just have a thought. Just like how in any non property project, whether IT or manufacturing, you need some capacity planning aspect to be considered. Not just production throughput but post production. Eg why would I build a data center or server farm in a place with poor infra and poor connectivity. So in the same way why does developers build a so called master plan of a city with 50k residents and not plan the traffic? Wouldn’t there be some plan that needs to be approved by government before approving? Sorry I don’t work for a developer so I don’t know. But it makes sense to me and somehow when you look at current developments, Elmina for example, we don’t see a proper plan. The roads and roundabouts in Denai etc are so small.

lol... glad you got something to complain now. seriously, comparing here with PJ is another jokes. there are over thousands acres yet to develop here and as you mentioned above, there is only entry besides Guthrie to Denai Alam/Elmina.

expecting SDP to do something while telling everyone it's normal on current traffic condition is hilarious. im moving from kepong and i know how bad it could be. that PRIME LOCATION has almost everything we need within 5km radius, here?

i do understand more population will cause heavy traffic and brought more commercial activities but related parties seems doing nothing.. at least get related parties to studies on the traffic flows and set the traffic light timing or arrange for traffic police on duty at the traffic lights during peak hour.
ya, i noticed the changes at E-Boulevard, the MBSA officer came to issue parking ticket more often nowadays. parking is not difficult to find like other PRIME LOCATION, you just need to park further. I hv been running my biz few km away since 2009, staying at U5 since 2010 and i know what im talking about. the risk that i was saying is things is getting out of hand, buyers should be aware of it and we should start pushing SDP/authorities to do something ie: direct access to DASH, solution on smoother traffic dispersion, traffic police on duty at the traffic lights between 7-9am, 5-8pm and etc.

sharing the full post from the FB group in case the link i shared is not accessible, everyone are welcome to lodge the complain online and share it to someone that really care. you may just edit as you like and propose to MBSA if you have better idea.
Kesesakan trafik di Persiaran Elektron yang makin melampau. Gambar diambil pada 26 Sep 2023 7.45pg.

Mohon jasa baik saudara2 buat aduan kat MBSA:

https://selangor.spab.gov.my/.../sdms.../SdmsCasePool/add.do

faridah@mbsa.com.my
Salam sejahtera diucapkan kepada tuan, saya merujuk perkara diatas dan bermohon jasa baik Tuan dapat menyelesaikan masalah ini secepat mungkin.

Kesesakan trafik di Persiaran Elektron semakin teruk sejak pembukaan Persiaran Shorea. Terutamanya antara 7pagi-9pagi, ia mengambil masa lebih daripada 25min untuk bergerak dari Bulatan Elmina ke lampu trafik di Wisma Johawaki yang hanya jaraknya 3km. Aliran trafik sebenarnya disekat oleh lampu trafik pertama selepas E-Boulevard dan trafik disebelah kiri yang menghala ke arah Sungai Buloh.

Cadangan saya adalah membuat sekatan lampu trafik berjadual di simpang jalan dari/ke GCE yang susur masuk/keluar ke Persiaran Elektron supaya aliran trafik dari Elmina & Kampung Melayu Subang dapat dijalankan lancar. Segala kenderaan yang berniat untuk belok kanan (dari GCE Selatan ke Kampung Melayu Subang/ dari GCE Utara ke arah Denai Alam) hanya dibenarkan belok kiri dan ambil U turn samada di Bulatan selepas Caltex ataupun persimpangan di depan Wisma Johawaki.

Selain daripada itu, pihak Tuan boleh cuba menyekat lampu trafik di simpang Jalan Buki Badak, Jalan PKNS, Jalan Merbau & Jalan Tembusu supaya segala kenderaan yang berniat untuk belok kanan ke arah Sungai Buloh  atau Shah Alam hanya dibenarkan belok kiri dan U turn di bawah jambatan depan Wisma Johawaki atau U turn di depan Surau Wildan, Subang Perdana. Saya percaya ianya dapat mengurangkan kesesakan trafik 2 hala Jalan Sungai Buloh sedangkan jarak antara 2 lokasi U-turn hanya 2km. Dengan adanya sekatan simpang diatas, aliran trafik akan menjadi lancar & tiada masalah untuk kenderaan yang perlu untuk mengambil U-turn di dua-dua lokasi ini.

Saya berharap pihak Tuan dapat pertimbangkan cadangan saya atau sekurang-kurangnya meminta bantuan Polis Trafik untuk mengendali kesesakan trafik ini pada hari bekerja, pukul 7pagi-9pagi & 5.30petang-8malam.

Sekian,
Terima Kasih.
(coincidently, YB Izham Selangor EXCO Infra, city councilor Shakir Ameer and few RA representative had a meeting 1 day after the FB post were shared)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/16993377469...606195339623249

Elmina ain't prime. It is a satellite township, its all just residential, thousands of vehicles goes in & out to work. These kind of township usually experience worse (longer) jams on peak hours. Another example look at Nilai/Seremban/Sendayan to KL every morning & evening.

thank you @5115 for rationally sharing the truth here for potential buyers

its incredible there are people who are still defending and trying to figure ways to sugar coat the truth by comparing with PJ

maybe thats why this place end up the way it is now, because everything is so called "well and proper", no improvement needed, hence becoming worse.

pity those who stay here as there are so many who are still in denial -  downplaying the negatives and overhyping the fake positives lol

For new launch landed, this is indeed one of the better ones, no doubt.

But for me, I'm going back to look at subsale within Bandar Utama, Damansara Utama, Bandar Sri Damansara area. No other option.

Kwasa Land will have same landed properties but they will all be well above RM1mil.

Maybe in the near future, would appreciate if Ilham buyers let us know what sort of renovation can be done to their homes. Things like grilles on the exterior or need to be inside. Planning to get the security screen/ mosquito netting installed on inside. Can be done?

Boss,
This just next to ER1, corner unit, subsale.
Superlink intermediate in ER1 oledi 1.3mil

This leng mou?

So now have to go through the roundabouts to enter GCE. Wonder if this will improve or worsen traffic?

The traffic still will not constantly move. Instead of stopping before exiting to Guthrie, cars will stop before entering roundabouts. This is because each roundabout has four exits/entrances, so when cars try to enter from one entrance, the cars inside the roundabouts will slow down, and cars from other directions will be unable to enter the roundabouts.

no need to complain la. property expert will say jam is good what. jam = pj lol. no jam no good!

people finally feel the impact already. its pure logic that this eventually happens

in pj if i jam 20 mins at least i can get everything i need. if 20mins jam here just to exit, really kesian. then go to pj jam another time lol

in the end i feel the residents got this to themselves. many were defensive and protective of the image of elmina because worry these claims tarnish the developement, end up nothing being done until now need to collect petition lol

one of the forummer here pointed out something very true. this place has so many parks and misc stuff but miss out on the important elements. its alot of gimmick but not enough substance. even the "mall" has so many cons but again people sugar coat it and manipulate it as unique etc lol

i also find the contradictions here ironic

- claims elmina is peaceful and quiet place but so many complaining about crowd, jams and rempits
- claims elmina is complete, no need go anywhere but at the same time, people still have to keep promoting about going to kl/pj with dash only takes 20 mins and mrt which is non existence
- claims it only takes 20 mins to go to anywhere else but jam just to exit taman already more than 20 mins
- then blames the jam due to neighbouring township but own development keep building "attractions" with poor layout planning (eg: praise all the schools being built but ignore the weird planning, praise mall with poor parking planning, praise the many many parks opened for even more non residents)

so many ifs, buts and excuses to downplay and manipulate the issues

the amount of jilat and sugarcoating grandiose claims here is insane, can't even keep the story straight and consistent already