Official: Revised Penang Hill Special Area Plan to include cable car, Covid-19 countermeasures | Malay Mail

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Official: Revised Penang Hill Special Area Plan to include cable car, Covid-19 countermeasures

Tuesday, 25 Aug 2020 04:03 PM MYTPenang exco Jagdeep Singh Deo looks at a draft version of the Penang Hill Special Area Plan at Cititel Penang in George Town August 25, 2020. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin

“The draft revision will include disaster management plans, for landslides, and also to be Covid-19 resilient,” he said in a press conference after launching a second focus group discussion on the Penang Hill SAP revision at Cititel Hotel here. The previous Pakatan Harapan government had allocated RM100 million for the Penang Hill cable car system but this was revoked after Perikatan Nasional took over the government.

Penang Hill Corporation general manager Datuk Cheok Lay Leng said the original SAP covered 468ha and while the revision involved 742ha.

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