Difahamkan terowong yang diilham oleh CM Lim Guan Eng, menghubungkan Pulau Pinang dengan tanah besar tidak melibatkan pembayaran dari kerajaan negeri terhadap projek tersebut. Sebaliknya, ia melibatkan pertukaran tanah strategik kepada pihak yang terpilih.
Cakap mudahnya, gadai tanah nak dapatkan terowong.
Billed as the current government's biggest infrastructure exercise since it assumed office in March 2008, the projects have been tagged at RM8 billion and reportedly conducted via open tender. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had said the projects would comprise a third (tunnel) link connecting Gurney Drive on the island to Seberang Perai on the mainland, a by-pass connecting Gurney Drive to the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu expressway, a link between Bandar Baru Air Itam to the same expressway, as well as a paired road to the existing coastal road from Tanjung Bungah to Teluk Bahang. Lim had also said that the state government will not provide any payments for the projects, and that the costs incurred will be recovered, via "competitive land swap" deals with prospective companies. He was quoted as saying that the proposed land swap would involve the best prime land in Penang, which is in the Gurney Drive vicinity and that the price of land in Penang would increase in the next few years, and thereby benefit the companies that undertake the road and tunnel building projects.
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