00:00Penang Island City Council Mayor Datuk e Rajendran said the repairs on the Jalan Burma sinkhole
00:07are expected to take five days.
00:10However, the council has urged Inda Water Consortium to speed up the process by carrying
00:15out night works.
00:17Rajendran said one lane may be closed at night to allow repair works on the damaged 21-inch,
00:2313-metre-long underground pipe.
00:25He said restricting repairs to night hours would ease congestion from Penang Road and
00:30nearby junctions, although some traffic disruption is still expected.
00:35IWK confirmed the entire pipe section must be replaced, with the traffic impact possibly
00:40extending across a 200-metre stretch up to Penang Road.
00:45A sinkhole measuring 1.5 metres wide and 2.5 metres long appeared along Jalan Burma on Sunday
00:52morning.
00:53The incident is believed to have been triggered by a burst underground sewage pipe.
01:00in terms of the
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