Comments on: Ipoh’s Polo Ground No Longer A Perak Icon We Can Be Proud Of

By: Pak Abu

Pak Abu — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:41:03 +0000

I went to Padang Polo yesterday afternoon/evening, about six o’clock. Couldn’t get parking spot. Hawkers occupying parking spots near the padang. All of them occupying more than one spot. There were more than half a dozen hawkers there.

I don’t undertand. The padang is mainly for exercising, not eating/drinking. If you have picnic, OK fine. But hawker stalls? Not enough with fried mee at pasar malam, pasar tani, pasar pagi, food courts, mamak, kopitiam etc etc?

I’m going to complain to MBI. http://aduan.mbi.gov.my/index.php?page=post

By: Rashid

Rashid — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:43:49 +0000

I have been following the comments on this article with increasing interest and agree 100% with Nigel, Friend of the Community and other like-minded readers on the Polo Ground situation. I deliberately drove by the park at 5.30pm one day and found that the entire Pesiaran Brash is filled with hawkers who set up their stalls on car park bays reserved for park users. They even provide tables, chairs, canopies and music for their customers. And their patrons are not at the park to jog or exercise, but simply to park their cars anywhere they can find space along the road and lepak over teh tarik and laksa. So, instead of being a recreational park, the taman rekreasi has become a hawker centre. This is definitely not the gith image for a community park; plus the traffic is terrible.

I’m surprised that the residents around the area hv not complained about the aituation so far; and if they have, then why isn’t MBI doing something about it?

I hope very much that Mat Rempit’s opinion is not true i.e. that MBI is turning a blind eye to the situation jsut because the hawkers are Malay. What is all this talk abuot 1Malaysia if such double standards exist?

As a bona fide Malay with very good Chinese friends, I hope Mat Rempit is wrong. And MBI must do something about the situation to prove that Mat Rempit is wrong!! Zam has my full support here.

If it is not about bangsa, then what is it about? Corruption?? Here, MBI must also prove that they are not being paid off by the hawkers.

The whole situation has made me very uneasy. I smell a rat, a very big rat. And the sooner MBI comes out to respond to all the complaints, the better.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:39:07 +0000

We strive to be a developed country but the uncivilised sight that greets visitors to some of our parks speaks volumes that we have a long way to go before this can happen. For one thing, if the authorities continue to hold on to their “third world mentality” of allowing hawkers free rein anywhere and everywhere they please, we will forever be nothing more than a backward “kampung” nation.

No amount of investment into facilities and landscaping by the authorities can compensate for the ugly sight of hawkers flogging their wares, while flies abound and rodents run rampant around the park.

Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh, it is time to stop this “kampung” mentality! Stern action must be taken immediately to relocate these illegal hawkers to a designated hawker zone away from the residential area surrounding the park.

When there is law and order at Taman Rekreasi Sultan Abdul Aziz, only then can we turn the park one that tourists will want to visit, and all Perakeans can be proud of.

By: Mat Rempit

Mat Rempit — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0000

Where do you live, Tamna? Why not we get hawkers to turn your street into another hawker street so that all the housing estates in Ipoh will soon be full of penjaja? Syoknya! Then no problem kan klau nak makan mee goreng bila bila saje.

All right!

By: tamna

tamna — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:11:32 +0000

MAYBE SALBIAH IS RIGHT.not everywhere and anywhere.
still,memang saya suka kalau “hawkers”surrounding my house.senag order mee goreng.lol

By: cilane

cilane — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:22:50 +0000

Whenever I pass by the stalls, I will have the same thoughts as Pushpa. But then, as when I observe more, those who eat at the stalls are not joggers but just individuals looking for somewhere with a nice view to eat. Sometimes I feel they are also there to observe the joggers and having the stalls there gave them a reason to sit at the side to ‘watch’.

Speaking of irresponsible/ignorant vendors, do the stalls along Jalan Sri Chempaka legal?
I still remember about two decades ago, whenever the elections are on, the candidate would promise a road widening for the Taman Chempaka entrance. Now, after all the sweat, tears and joy, we finally have a considerably wide road. But the vendors seem to mushroom at the side since then and worse, they have also make full use of the space to put tables and chairs. Will these vendors cause traffic congestion when cars stop by to buy from them? Will they cause the drain to clog too?

By: salbiah

salbiah — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:39:07 +0000

I love hawkers stalls too and i agree with tamna they must be clean, clean, clean! but not just anywhere and ehverywhere.. then our city would look like a rojak town.. haha!! definitely not in a housing area. tak kan tamna likes the idea of living in a house surrounded by hawkers? kekekeke..

By: Park lover

Park lover — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:37 +0000

Hahahahaha!! Good one, Pushpa S. I salute you!

By: Pushpa S.

Pushpa S. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:08:21 +0000

I don’t think it’s just MBI that needs to do something, it’s also the people who go there to eat at the stalls and give business to the hawkers. Afterall, if business is not good, there will not be anymore hawkers, right?

So people of Ipoh, stop patronising these illegal hawkers! If the people stop buying, the hawkers will stop selling, it’s as simple as that. These hawkers can sell their food somewhere else, not in front of the park and people’s houses.

And people of ipoh, when you go to polo ground, it is for exercise, not to eat and put on more weight lah! You will be wasting your efforts!

By: Bernard

Bernard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:03:26 +0000

Well said, Friend of the Community. I couldn’t have written a better article myself and I share your sentiments entirely. Being a retired school teacher who used to love sitting under the shade of the lovely trees at polo ground reading and contemplating, I find the environment at polo ground nowadays totally unconducive, with the hawkers spoiling the landscape, and the noise most distracting.

What a shame.