George Town's Pitt Street: Focal point of religions

Pitt Street in George Town is the focal point of religious beliefs in Penang. Call it a Heritage trail if you like, because if you walk from one end of the road (junction with Farquhar Street) to the other (junction with Jalan Kampong Kolam), in quick succession you'll come across the St George's Anglican Church, the Kuan Yin Temple, the Mahamariamman Temple and the Kapitan Kling Mosque, all dating back to at least the 19th Century.


So I found it rather incongruous to see that several years ago, the authorities - must be the Penang Island Municipal Council - had erected (sic) these rather silly barriers along both sides of the road. Methinks, they could have chosen a more appropriate design than this. I would think that they are hardly suitable. Someone in the Council must have had a warped sense of humour, and I'm being wicked.


But what else is new? Already, Penang owns the world's two largest sex organs. These rows of silly barriers in Pitt Street hardly measure up to the majesty of the Komtar tower/geodesic dome complex or the Penang Hill funicular railway, or do they?