From today New Lane will be turned into a one-way street with traffic going towards Macalister Road between 4pm and midnight daily.
Komtar assemblyman Ng Wei Aik said the one-way traffic proposal was tabled during the Penang Municipal Council’s Infra-structure and Traffic Committee meeting on Jan 21 and endorsed during a full council meeting on Feb 25.
“The proposal was mooted following several road accidents and complaints about the traffic congestion in New Lane which had been given a temporary hawkers’ site status by the council.
“The one-way traffic system will start from 4pm when hawkers start their business and end at midnight except for Wednesday because the stalls are closed on that day,” he told reporters during a visit to the area yesterday.
New direction: Rela personnel will be on hand to direct traffic at New Lane in George Town.
“We had earlier sent out 300 notices to residents in the area, traders, hawkers and the Sunway Hotel. We only received two objections and this is why the council decided to impose the one-way system only from 4pm.”
He said residents, traders, hawkers, hotel guests and motorists could drive into the hawker site at New Lane via Kek Chuan Lane or Jalan Datuk Keramat.
“The hawker site went back some 20 years when about 40 illegal hawkers were relocated there from their Macalister Road,” he said.
Ng said the one-way system would be implemented on a trial basis for a month.
“During the trial run, Rela personnel will be stationed there from 4pm to midnight to help re-direct traffic and four ‘No-Entry’ signs will be placed at the New Lane/Macalister Road junction.
“If the trial exercise goes on smoothly, then the one-way system will be a permanent feature,” he said.
-News courtesy of The Star-
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