WAY OUT: The traffic gridlock is now a thing of the past with the implementation of a one-way traffic system
GEORGE TOWN: THOSE using Jalan Ibbetson in the morning peak hours can heave a sigh of relief as a periodic one-way traffic flow system was implemented on Monday.
Traffic is one way from 6.30am to 8am and 12.30pm to 2pm, starting from the main entrance of the SJK(C) Chung Hwa Confucian school until the front of the SMK Teknik Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra.
The gridlock caused by parents picking up schoolgoing childten at the road side and the number of buses fighting for space is now a thing of the past.
Air Itam assemblyman Wong Hon Wai said the single-session school had 1,350 students and over 500 cars traversed Jalan Ibbetson before and after school in the morning and afternoon.
"After a dialogue with the school Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), we came up with an amicable solution that would help make their lives easier," he said.
He said, for the the time being, Rela were deployed at the starting and ending points of the new system to ensure proper traffic flow.
Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) engineer Zainuddin Mohamad Shariff said the one-way system here would be on a three-month trial.
"We have sent out pamphlets to the government quarters next to the school and the parents of the schoolchildren informing them of the new system," he said.
He said MPPP was also in discussions with other schools in the island to implement a similar one-way system to improve traffic flow.
PTA chairman Koay Eng Loh said the number of parents picking up their children had gone up, contributing to the increase of cars there.
"During peak hours, parents are stuck in traffic for up to 30 min stuck in traffic," he said.
As reported in Sinchew.
黃漢偉和中華A校校長鍾保杉、家協主席郭榮羅、B校校長黃渼茱、家協主席李斯傑、檳島市政局基本設施及交通小組成員普仁阿南市議員，和檳州回教堂路鄉委會主席阿茲米等，於昨日下午放學時到校門口視察。
當局經過2個月時間的研究，結果決定早上6時30分至8時的上學時段，和中午12時30分至下午2時，自校門口朝聖約翰救傷隊大廈的路段，改為只能朝聖約翰救傷隊大廈行駛的單行道。
