The group has consistently opposed the planned Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project and said today there is now an urgent need for the state to review the Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP).
GEORGE TOWN, May 14.— Penang Forum, an umbrella body of civil society groups here, has called for the Penang state government under new Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow to re-evaluate the need for land reclamation in the state.
The group has consistently opposed the planned Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project and said today there is now an urgent need for the state to review the Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP).
“Now that the state is likely to have greater access to federal funding, there is an urgent need to review the Penang transport masterplan which should promote sustainable mobility, moving people not cars,” the Penang Forum Steering Committee said in a statement today.
The group said there was also less need to rely on property development as an engine to drive the Penang economy now ...
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