While I recognise that the Oxford English dictionary may not have such a word as 'piratising', it is the only apt word to describe what has happened to a 'local authority road' between SS2 and Damansara Jaya, Taman Megah, Kelana Jaya and Taman Tun Dr Ismail.

Today that local road is called the Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong (LDP) and has become a privatized highway. To me, it is a 'piratized highway'. Why and how?

I start with some very basic and fundamental questions about how this local authority road became a federal road. Who now really has final authority for this local road, if it has not yet been gazetted as a federal road? How did the federal government take over this local road? Under our Federal Constitution what basis or authority does the federal government have to change what is local into something federal? Does the Constitution really give such authority? Worse still, how could they privatise this locally approved and built road which was developed by property merchants explicitly for the use by local residents?