Whose idea is this? 100-storey buildings for KL

At a time when the Great Builder of the world, Dubai, is struggling to keep afloat due to its building binge, Malaysia hasn't learnt the lesson.
At one point half of the world's construction cranes were all based in Dubai. Half.
Now look at the desert country. It could well collapse soon, hello! (I hope not, of course).

Malaysia wants to build TWO (let me repeat: 2, Dua) 100-storey skyscrapers in KL.
See NST's story here. Errr, why? [Correction: TWO are 100 storeys. Not three as written earlier. Wartawan kelabu asap baca tak betul].


Petronas Twin Towers is each 88 storeys high. Cukuplah tu.
With all those new buildings coming up all around it, the traffic is horrendous and will worsen.

Now to spur growth, we wanna build more? And taller ones too?
This is S T U P I D.

As we can see with PKFZ, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya - if you build them, there is NO certainty that they will come.
People build when they have DEMAND.
Not to have GDP growth.

Governments spend what limited money you have on productive sectors of the economy - like education.
Isn't Malaysia short of engineers?
People who can't speak proper English?
Do we need more buildings just so the government can spend and we have this headline number that GDP is so strong?
And so that money can be dished out to suspected cronies without proper tenders?

The GST is supposed to widen the tax base and get an extra RM1 billion a year for state coffers.
I bet you that if no TWO skyscrapers are to be built, Malaysia can save RM5 bil-RM6 bil. No need to have the GST for the next 5-6 years.

If you must carry out these mega-projects, please explain properly to people first. Don't let things spill out in dribs and drabs, cos people get negative impression, then you try to do damage control by which time it would be too late.
The Matrade project with Naza group is already one of those - poor series of explanation, and then when supposedly caught with giving away big profits to the group, no one has since said anything.
Same with Chin Peng, BTN, GST.

Mana ini PM and government punya PR people and spin doctors?