An old town it may be, but Pulau Tikus and its surroundings will soon be given a fresh lease of life with the opening of Gurney Wharf. Alongside this, Pulau Tikus assemblyman Chris Lee Chun Kit has also devised a four-prong approach to further revitalise the area.
The first is to ease traffic build-up – the concentration of traffic coming down from Tanjung Bungah is usually dispersed through Gurney Drive or Jalan Burmah – by potentially relocating the famed Gurney Drive Hawker Centre onto the Wharf itself, with proper facilities in place to ensure health and safety standards.
“One of the main reasons Gurney Drive is always tremendously congested is because of the hawker centre and the lack of parking spaces; and adding to this are the Gurney Plaza and Gurney Paragon malls located next to it,” Lee says.
