TRANSPORT and traffic management have always been a bone of contention for Penang. Currently, a host of projects to counter the state's transport woes which have been in the works have since progressed. 

• The federal government is going ahead with a RM50 million plan to introduce water taxis and build more jetties in Penang and mainland. Designed in three phases, it is to target the foreign tourists in the first, domestic tourists in the second and the general public in the third. Read here
• Signboards and the drawing of bicycle emblems on the road will be completed by end of the year (2009) to mark dedicated bicycle lanes in both the Youth Park-Teluk Bahang and inner city heritage areas. Read here.
• While it was earlier reported that the Penang state government had given the green light to build and commission a RM70-million monorail test track on a 30-acre site in Batu Kawan (read here), the state government now has declined to confirm the deal. Read here

• International city bid on the right track: Penang is on the right track towards becoming an international city. The state had recorded several firsts that had given it an impetus toward striving hard to attain international recognition.
• Need for proper purchasing system to curb budget deficit: The Government should look into plugging the gaps of its purchasing system to curb budget deficit rather than consider the introduction of the goods and services tax.
• Kg Tanjung Tokong should be preserved as heritage village: Kampung Tanjung Tokong residents should negotiate with Uda Holdings Bhd, which is developing the village, to allow a certain area to be gazetted as a heritage zone, a Malacca heritage expert said.
• YTL to develop project in George Town heritage area: The heritage enclave of George Town in Penang may see a waterfront development soon. It is learnt that YTL Corp Bhd will embark on a project, through joint-venture company PDC Heritage Hotel Sdn Bhd, to build luxurious condominiums and an eatery on a 1.4ha seafront site adjacent to the 124-year-old Eastern and Oriental (E&O) Hotel along Lebuh Farqhuar.
• Eleven courts to be relocated from Penang court complex: Merely less than two years after being housed together at the RM87mil Penang court complex here, the George Town civil subordinate courts will soon move out to Northam Towers in Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah.
  

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