Kuala Lumpur has a daytime population of three million people that has resulted to an unending traffic congestion nightmare that road users are forced to deal with on a daily basis.
The city that never sleeps will soon see at least 10 roads pedestrianised in five years’ time under a trial run, with at least five roads including Jalan Raja and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman (TAR) to be impacted this year, the capital city’s mayor was reported saying.
It was reporter that Datuk Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan shared about Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s (DBKL) plans to pedestrianise a few stretches of roads in the areas of Bangsar, Brickfields and Bukit Bintang.
“We will be revisiting Jalan TAR’s trial run that was suspended last year. Our vision is to see it connected to Jalan Raja until the intersection at Leboh Pasar Besar,” he said as reported in The New Straits Times (NST).
It is understood that the closing of these roads to vehicles would be based on the previous models used for the trial closures at Jalan Masjid India and Jalan TAR, but noted that this plan is currently being studied and that details have yet to be finalised.
The mayor noted that such road closures had been implemented successfully in other countries such as neighbouring Singapore, citing the semi-pedestrianised Arab Street and Haji Lane and Portobello Road in London.
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