GEORGE TOWN, Nov 14 – The Penang Municipality Council (MBPP) will be launching a campaign to give priority to pedestrians by making the city more pedestrian friendly in future. MBPP Infrastructure and Traffic Committee chairman Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik said the campaign are expected to take three years to be implemented in stages from Nov 23.
“Under the first stage, the campaign will focus on educating road users such as motorists to stop at pedestrian crossings. This phase of the campaign will take three months and during the period, we will improve the walkability index and conduct study on public compliance and cases of non-compliance at pedestrian crossings,” he told a press conference here today.
In the meantime, he also added that the campaign would be mounted through the advertisements on the newspapers, billboards, radios, social media and also the distribution of leaflets as well as community involvement and the monitoring at pedestrian crossings.
