Comment posted Mourning the loss of a green space by tan cairong.
The people who run our city don’t derive benefit by keeping that green patch. In fact by concreting they save the bother for its upkeep. They don’t look at greenery as people who move around the city by walking. If we wish to keep the environment green we need to have city officials who take bus or cycle to work. Only then they will realise their action’s impact on the quality of life in our city. In London, it’s not rare for ministers to take bus or train to work. Can you imagine our ministers going around the city without outriders?
Recent comments by tan cairong
- Penang Hill Railway: Heritage lost
A people without heritage, is a people without history. A people without history is a people without culture. A people without culture is not a people at all…. Big Ben has been there for over a 100 years and it is still keeping time. Why did they spend millions to keep the leaning tower of Pisa from toppling over? Both these perform no economic function at all. It’s simply competency of the maintenance people that keep them working. Bring back the propeller planes? We might as well send our ferries to Bkt Beruntung with the buses. Why are the Hong Kong cross harbour ferries still running? The under sea road and MRT tunnels have made the ferries redundant. And don’t forget the Victoria Peak tram and the tram lines. It is by looking back that we move forward. They say the only thing we learn from history is that we have learned nothing from history. By not keeping our heritage, we have no history to learn from. - Penang Hill Railway: Heritage lost
In the early to mid 70s maintenance of the hill railway was entrusted to the Electricity Supply Department (ESD) of the then Penang City Council. Besides the late James Tait who was based at the Mains Department at Lorong Kulit, mechanical engineers from the ESD’s power station at Gelugor, then headed by the station superintendent Mr. K. Nithyanatham was in charge of major maintenance like replacement of the cables. In 1976 the City Council’s ESD was taken over by the Lembaga Letrik Negara (LLN) which today is the Tenaga Nasional Berhad. - How to fix a submarine (Part 2)
A submarine that does not submerge is not a problem. Just send it to Bkt Beruntung and keep it there with the buses. What needs fixing is our country that keeps sinking deeper and deeper. Now we better call the manufacturer and find the way to keep in afloat. - Pollution and dumping: The price of Penang’s progress?
“i have been telling all DAP state assemblymen to organize more gotong royong … except charles santiago the king of gotong royong …”. Any politician listening to your plea must be crazy. Gotong royong is a Malaysian invention, you don’t find in anywhere else in the world. Politicians here love litter bugs. If nobody threw rubbish around, they will have no opportunity to organise gotong royong and have their picture splashed on the front page of newspapers. It cost a lot to buy advertising space. In Singapore, they make litter bugs do the clean up. In Malaysia they get suckers and students to pick the rubbish so that politicians get free publicity. - “Surface subway” vs Porr
“…. Cycle – would you cycle in the heavy rain (maybe face floods)/dry hot humid weather to lets say the nearest LRT station in Penang (if any) to go to work? Be sensible rational & pratical. People, lets try it for a week.”I have tried it for years from Primary school till Form 6. People in my generation living in small towns cycled to school. Even when I was studying in Form 6 in Ipoh I cycled. Some cycles for 5 km or more each way. If you are cycling to the LRT station at 7 or 8 in the morning, there is no question of hot humid weather. Same when you return from work at 5.30 – 7 pm. If you have lived in Britain you will realise that the rain there is much worst. During winter rain may come continuously without stop for 1 – 2 weeks at a stretch. The frost on the road will trip and fall you off. Your hands will go numb. Despite all these people cycle. Go see it for yourself in small towns like Oxford or Cambridge, not to mention Copenhagen. Malaysians simply have it too comfortable. Unwilling to change your easy lifestyle. Parents ferrying their kids to school, even to university classes. Overseas you can’t rely on domestic help like Indon. maids. Talking of saving the environment!
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The fences everywhere are ruining George Town. The Supreme Court, the Cenotaph, the Legislative Assembly building have all been fenced. The worst is the one in front of the Legislative Assembly, as the fence is too ornate, high and too close to the building so that it ruins the facade of the building and makes it look like a cage.
Andrew,
What do you want ???. Without the fence, there will be vandalism and graffiti etc etc. You just can`t please all.
Anil, as a student of CLS in the 80s, I know that this green space has been there way back. We schoolgirls used to cross it to walk to the light street bus stop. There were lovely large trees which offered shade and many used to stop and rest beneath them. It was in the 1990s that the grass was dug up and the ground concretised. An odd arrangement of concrete structures was set up on the space, and the tress were brought down. It was no longer suitable for walking across or resting. The fencing is, of course, new. I agree with you that the space should be restored to its original condition, and made accessible to everyone. No point having decorative planting if no one can enjoy or appreciate it. Trees will do just fine.
The Penang State gov. should remove the concrete, re-plant the trees and grass and remove that unsightly fence. The concrete space looks dead. Wonder what the Penang gov. intends to use it for? Why the horrible hard fencing? No hedges, not even dustbins. What is it keeping this defaced space for? Is this how they save public funds?
Viva Green Anil, but people are not, then what do you do about it without the support of the public, shout and make noise, but end of the day it is all political. The charade can only be unveiled as seen by the earlier commentor, if the public are subjective for an objective purpose to create the ambience rather than be the tool for the political need for the others’need that had led us to be what we are today in Malaysia. This is individual not some superficial agenda for the betterment of the society that we live in. It starts but diluted for truth and reality fails for their own political reasons.
Please give LGE a break. His DAP Perak government already gone. Please respect the mourning period.
The people who run our city don’t derive benefit by keeping that green patch. In fact by concreting they save the bother for its upkeep. They don’t look at greenery as people who move around the city by walking. If we wish to keep the environment green we need to have city officials who take bus or cycle to work. Only then they will realise their action’s impact on the quality of life in our city. In London, it’s not rare for ministers to take bus or train to work. Can you imagine our ministers going around the city without outriders?