Awesome Johor Bahru!

[nazrey]

Project Details: Johor Bahru Bus/LRT Study, Malaysia
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CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT TRAFFIC / TRANSPORTATION STUDY



Client: Johor State Government

CBD REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN





JOHOR PERDANA



http://www.burchillpartners.com.au/3d.htm#majorp

[KJ]

i really hope the project will be build at Johor Bharu as soon as possible. If it had been build, it will be very beautiful in the Johor Bharu skyline

[THT-United]

Wow, the present day JB already looks so nice at nite!

But the JB of the future is even more impressive... Something like KLCC when fully completed...

[TYW]

wow!! that redevelopment plan looks so cool

[baqthier]

Here's a day pic
As for the new development I think it looks cool. Actually should be done very soon lah. I also love how crowded JB streets are.

beautiful.. i think jb downtown look more 'orderly' than kl..

[SEED]

the plan looks veri CUTE!!!! its like a little wonderland... haha~ i like it~ soo different from KL and Penang~ plus the movie world thingz (Universal Studio) its gonna be SUUUPPPPPERRRRR!!!

Disney land of Malaysia!!!!! Gooo JB!!!!

[baqthier]

Another pic by ©Roger Tan Kor Mee
Day time one

[TYW]

Originally posted by SEED

the plan looks veri CUTE!!!! its like a little wonderland... haha~ i like it~ soo different from KL and Penang~ plus the movie world thingz (Universal Studio) its gonna be SUUUPPPPPERRRRR!!!

Disney land of Malaysia!!!!! Gooo JB!!!!

actually i think JB quite similar to KL lah. maybe coz of the buildings' design (glass and concrete) and the way they are lit up.

[baqthier]

Batu Pahat also orderly..see?

[szehoong]

Actually nearly all cities are orderly except for KL due to obvious historical reasons......

[TYW]

Originally posted by szehoong

Actually nearly all cities are orderly except for KL due to obvious historical reasons......

why is KL's road not organised actually?? george town is older than KL but more organised if compared

[Kevinkhoo1986]

not organised look more natural and alive.. i prefer not organised road as it is more fantastic to drive and not easy get boring!!~ heheh

[THT-United]

Wow.. Never realized Batu Pahat is also something like Melbourne... Well-planned with nice grid streets...

Subang Jaya is also another planned city... The whole place is squarish, especially the old SJ... All straight roads, whether the main ones or those in the residential areas...

But yeah, agree with you kevin... A city with more, well, disorderly streets is more interesting... You'll never know what to expect after a certain corner eh?

[TYW]

Originally posted by Kevinkhoo1986

not organised look more natural and alive.. i prefer not organised road as it is more fantastic to drive and not easy get boring!!~ heheh

i perfer grids, not that square grids but with funny shapes like canberra and putrajaya.

[Kevinkhoo1986]

Originally posted by TYW

i perfer grids, not that square grids but with funny shapes like canberra and putrajaya.

yaya i agree~

[szehoong]

Originally posted by CLié-SJ33

Wow.. Never realized Batu Pahat is also something like Melbourne... Well-planned with nice grid streets...

Subang Jaya is also another planned city... The whole place is squarish, especially the old SJ... All straight roads, whether the main ones or those in the residential areas...

But yeah, agree with you kevin... A city with more, well, disorderly streets is more interesting... You'll never know what to expect after a certain corner eh?

That's the whole problem......you get 'interesting' corners and surprises but if you are actually driving and going somewhere you'll be cursing like mad!

It is only fun, adventurous and not too boring if you are driving for leisure but it ain't funny when you're lost!

Actually not only SJ, Sunway and USJ are planned areas but also PJ. When I said planned .....it need not have to be grid - take a look at Putrajaya and some cities like Singapore.

If ya notice ....most smaller town like you've mentioned - Batu Pahat are planned during the British times.......another good example would be Taiping. KL are not....see my next reply on why..... V

[szehoong]

Originally posted by TYW

why is KL's road not organised actually?? george town is older than KL but more organised if compared

Well....not neccessary that newer must be better......

I tot I explain this before........you din read again my friend ......it was sometime ago ....I think a month or two ago, I explained somewhere in the forum about the reasons why KL isn't organised!

You see.......cities like George Town, Malacca and Singapore are port cities with great importance to the British. Smaller towns like Taiping are Tin Ore Meccas thus important to the British as well so they kept the towns and cities organised.

The problem with KL is that it grew out all of the sudden from practically nothing. At that time, there are civil wars ( remember Raja Mahidi, Sultan Ismail.....blah blah....my history getting bad liao )....and KL wasn't too important of a tin mining town compared with the rest of the towns like Ipoh or even Ampang!

When the Chinese (in particular - the Cantonese) arrived from Port Swettenham (Port Klang).....tin mining was booming and when the British realised that this little village became one of Malaya's largest town overnight, they can't organised the town anymore as the confusion had started much earlier.

The only grid that we could actually see till today in KL is the Petaling St (Chinatown) area. That is because when the shophouses there are built, there are proper planning already.

Most of KL roads followed the path of the old dirt roads - for instance - Jalan Pudu, Jalan Cheras, Jalan Ampang etc.....

It doesn't help that even after independence, the Selangor State govt isn''t doing anything concrete about city planning (KL was then Selangor's capital). Only after DBKL are established in 1971, city planning took off but then it was a bit too late - so we ended up like what we see today.

In fact, despite the nearly impossible task to plan a rojak city, DBKL made great stride in implementing changes to the road system to make it more systematic. Not many people agree to this, but that is the only way out......to have more one way streets and funny diversions (like at Jalan Sultan Ismail).

If you are not local and driving in KL I just got one thing to say to ya - GOOD LUCK!

[szehoong]

Originally posted by TYW

i perfer grids, not that square grids but with funny shapes like canberra and putrajaya.

The road layout at Canberra and Putrajaya aren't grid as they are not straight and angular

These cities are planned from ground-up, therefore had much more space to spare so can make the 'funny shapes'...actually they are not funny shapes.......more rounded that's all.....

The roads are spaced out so that there would be green pockets and wouldn't create a congested image....

[TYW]

Originally posted by szehoong

The road layout at Canberra and Putrajaya aren't grid as they are not straight and angular

These cities are planned from ground-up, therefore had much more space to spare so can make the 'funny shapes'...actually they are not funny shapes.......more rounded that's all.....

The roads are spaced out so that there would be green pockets and wouldn't create a congested image....

so, grids should be square?? i dun want them anymore