Trees to be transplanted for road widening project


Hard at work: MBPP contractors looking at the new area where the trees at Jalan Masjid Negeri will be relocated.

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Is­­land City Council (MBPP) is going ahead with the road widening pro­ject in Jalan Masjid Negeri, requiring 16 trees to be transplanted elsewhere by end of next month.

Its traffic engineer Zainuddin Mohamad Shariff said the contractor assigned to transplant the trees had been asked to file the method of statement before any transplanting could commence.

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