I traced for him the historical facts concerning this walkway:
1: It has been in existence for decades, from a dirt footpath until it was renovated into a tiled walkway by the then MP Leong Horn Kee. Thanks to him we, the residents of Thomson Garden Estate, have used this facility as a shortcut to Shunfu Mart, the neighbourhood kindergarten, Thomson CC and the MRT.
2: Now the walkway is in disputed territory owned by ShunFuVille as part of the privatisation process. As a result, they have locked up the walkway, and now unilaterally demolished the steps of the walkway, a most odius thing to do in terms of the ethics of neighbourliness. This slap in the face was done while we are patiently waiting for the Authorities and the President to mitigate the harshness of this unfortunate event, and hopefully reinstate the use of the walkway.
3: My opinion that all this could have been avoided had the person/s in HDB-HUDC drawn the border line on the other side of the walkway, along the side of the retaining wall, and declared the metre-wide land on which the walkway sits as State Land.
But is it too late to undo the mistake at 3 above?
Photo above shows me and Ng Hun Sen, the New Paper reporter, making a site visit overlooking the demolished steps of the Jalan Isnin-Shunfu Rd Walkway
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