| I was 11 when my parents first drove me to Penang from Sungai Petani for the school holidays and I still have a photo of me standing with my family at the First Penang Bridge midspan and there were hardly any cars around on the bridge.
We love Penang for everything it has offered and has to offer in the future except for two annoying things - traffic congestion and the unreasonable need to oppose everything being planned for the future of Penang's growth by a small group of people. Similar to these two cases, the Penang Transport Master Plan has been heavily criticised by a small group of people and the interesting fact about this is that both sides want to resolve traffic congestion but with totally different approaches.
If Dr Mahathir Mohamad was very concerned with the population prediction way back then we wouldn’t have had the first Penang Bridge nor the unique Free Trade Zone we have now.
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