Once bustling, Petaling Street now a ghost town


Angie Tan

Once a livewire, Petaling Street is now reduced to a ghost town as three lockdowns to curb Covid-19 kill businesses. – EPA pic, July 14, 2021.

BUSINESSES in the iconic Petaling Street, a tourist attraction in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, can no longer sustain their operations after three lockdowns to curb the spread of Covid-19.

There are more than 1,000 stores along Petaling Street and around 20% have closed down for good two months ago. Most of them were in the food business, operating from shoplots and from roadside stalls.


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  • This is the opportunity to update and adapt the street. Instead of too many stalls on the road making the passage between narrow, hot, uncomfortable and hunting ground for pickpockets and rip off sellers, build back a wider passage through, more local products instead of counterfeit goods, shade and fewer stalls manned by aggressive sellers who try to overcharge tourists. Reinvigorate and reinvent to get tourists back.

    Posted 2 years ago by Malaysia New hope