Australian tram engineer Ric Francis has come up with a slightly revised proposal for tram routes in inner city George Town and the buffer zone. Ric is the co-author of Penang Trams, Trolleybuses and Railways.
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Anil had to lobby hard for public to engage the authority to deploy Tram system. As far as most readers aware, Team is not in the master plan of Penang Transport of the future.
It IS in the masterplan.
Many many prewar shophouses in heritage zone of Penang Island have been snapped up to be converted into lodges or boutique motels to cater for tourist influx. This can justify tram system to be viable with paying tourists and locals benefiting from that?
Again, some may like the tram system but dislike metropolis lifestyle for fear of higher living cost as tourists spend like nobody business with depreciating ringgit versus their currencies.