Malaysian artists join opposition to Penang’s land reclamation project

“It looks as if someone was trying to build something as large and expensive as possible, without taking the effort to plan it properly,” entrepreneur Curry Khoo said as we sat in a coffee shop in Bayan Lepas, close to Penang International Airport.We discussed the proposed Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP), consisting of five light rail and monorail lines, highways, viaducts and tunnels – one undersea, another cutting through the hills of the picturesque Penang Island.Earlier this week, Khoo…