THE next time you use pedestrian traffic lights at a zebra crossing, appreciate the fact that it may have cost the government as much as several hundred thousand ringgit to set it up.
The traffic lights themselves are not expensive, but the construction cost, the laying of power cables which involves earthworks can require a large budget, said Penang public works committee chairman Zairil Khir Johari.
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