The Penang Island Metropolis Council (MBPP) has launched a collection of site visitors administration measures, together with the implementation of “Ops Payung”, to ease congestion at main vacationer hotspots in the course of the year-end faculty holidays, Christmas and New 12 months celebrations.
In an announcement immediately, MBPP stated Ops Payung will likely be enforced all through the festive interval at key places similar to Jalan Penang, Bukit Bendera, the Penang Pageant website in Sungai Nibong, and Padang Kota Lama.
Alongside Jalan Penang, site visitors management will likely be carried out each day from 11am to 5pm at three checkpoints positioned close to Pasar Chowrasta Market, Kedai Jeruk Madu and in entrance of Lebuh Keng Kwee. At Bukit Bendera, enforcement will likely be performed at two checkpoints between midday and 6pm to handle customer site visitors.
For the Penang Pageant website in Sungai Nibong, MBPP officers will concentrate on sustaining clean site visitors move and clearing obstructions from 7pm till midnight. In the meantime, tow-truck patrols will likely be deployed at Padang Kota Lama ranging from 6pm to handle unlawful parking and site visitors bottlenecks.
To enhance response time, MBPP will utilise its citywide CCTV community as “Clever Eyes” to observe real-time site visitors circumstances. It will enable enforcement groups to be dispatched shortly to congestion hotspots as they come up. As well as, the working hours of the council’s Enforcement Division Site visitors Unit will likely be prolonged from 10pm to midnight, with additional patrols assigned to different congestion-prone areas.
Individually, all metropolis council building and public works, together with roadworks and utility excavations, will likely be suspended from December 23 to January 1, 2026, apart from emergency repairs. A 24-hour upkeep group will stay on standby to handle pressing points and guarantee site visitors move is just not disrupted.
Whereas welcoming guests to Penang, MBPP urged all motorists to adjust to site visitors laws, plan their journeys upfront and park solely in designated areas.
Earlier, Bernama reported that greater than 2.2 million automobiles are anticipated to enter Penang in the course of the festive interval. Penang police chief Datuk Azizee Ismail stated the projection relies on earlier festive site visitors traits, compounded by the continued Penang Pageant operating till January 10, 2026.
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