Low-income residents want LRT and PIL


‘Traffic will be worse during construction of the projects. I will still support it because it will only be good for us in the future,’ said shopowner Ung Looi Hoon.

GEORGE TOWN: Residents who are fed up with traffic congestion on the island want the proposed Bayan Lepas Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Pan Island Link (PIL) highway to be implemented as soon as possible to ease the daily gridlock.

Those living in high-density and lower-income areas in Jelutong, Gelugor, Bayan Lepas and Permatang Damar Laut say that the situation has gotten really bad in the last five years, and worse after the Second Penang Bridge was opened last year.

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