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Malaysian footpaths

~ a state of decay

Here are some pics I took on a 500m stretch on my way to work walking along Jalan Ceylon. This is not some distant, far off backwater suburb, this is central Kuala Lumpur and these cracks and holes have existed for well over 6 months.

This is a busy street in a popular area, there are a couple of quite classy restaurants on this street, why won't the Malaysia Govt get it's act together and protect its citizens by giving them a safe footpath to walk on?

Would you walk on this?

.. Being so close to the road, much of the time you have no choice.

Why do they patch the footpath with wooden boards rather than a proper concrete solution?

The smaller grey tiles seen in the above & below pics are actually non-porous and therefore become slippery in the rain.

Who makes the decision to put slippery tiles nearest the road in a tropical country?

I put this down to perhaps a bad decision perhaps years ago, but in the last month the powers that be have replaced a bus stop near my work, and tiled the base of it with even more slippery tiles, no just non-porous, but actually shiny, and these are slippery even when dry.

This is just an example of completely bizarre, nonsensical decision making.
What are they thinking?
Are they thinking?