YB Jagdeep and YB Yeoh with other assemblymen and city council officials
Soon, visitors to the Esplanade can enjoy the greenery and lush plants at the linear garden currently being set up by the Penang Island City Council.
This is part of the state government’s strategies for the green agenda to tackle climate change.
The 0.74 acre park is located just behind the cenotaph located at the Esplanade.
On hand to perform the ground breaking ceremony was the State Exco for Housing, Local Government, Town and Country Planning YB Jagdeep Singh Deo along with Penang Island City Council Mayor Dato A. Rajendran.
According to Jagdeep, the state’s Green Agenda will always be a priority especially with the climate crisis the whole world is battling with.
“We are happy to be here to launch yet another green lung project at our Linear Park project at Padang Kota. It will be planted with 60 trees of 12 kinds of species.
“This project is part and parcel of the agenda whereby planning has already begun for many other projects, the biggest of which is Gurney Wharf which we have announced last week comprising 101.8 acres whereby the first phase of 27.53 acres will see a public park opened to the public in Penang.
It will be open to all Malaysians and visitors from around the world with some 1,500 trees of 20 species being planted,” said Jagdeep.
Also present at the ceremony were State Exco for Tourism and Creative Economy YB Yeoh Soon Hin, Chief Minister Incorporated (CMI) general manager Datin S. Barathi along with several state assemblymen namely, Daniel Gooi, Teh Lai Heng, Joseph Ng and George Town Conservation and Development Corporation advisor Frencesco Siravo.
Artist impression of the linear garden