ACCESSIBILITY AND CIRCULATION

3.4 ACCESSIBILITY AND CIRCULATION

3.4.1 ACCESSIBILITY (Macro Scale)

The accessibility to Gunung Lang Recreational Park can be access from South East Expressway, Kuala Kangsar road and ‘Persiaran Gunung Lang’. However

70% of user used their private vehicles, another 20% are private bus, taxi and tourist minivan also another 10% are motorcycle.

Gunung Lang Recreational Park

Gunung Bilike

Gunung Lang

Plan 2.4: Accessibility plan pf GLRP.

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Legend North South Expressway Kuala Kangsar road

Persiaran Gunung Lang Railway Site Boundary

3.4.2 CIRCULATION There are two types of circulation pattern in Gunung Lang Recreational Park which is vehicular and pedestrian. Both serve the purpose of providing linkage and demarcation for Gunung Lang and its vicinity.

Vehicular circulation There are several roads that connect to Gunung Lang Recreational Park. They are categorized into 3 types which is freeway, primary road, secondary road and waterways. The vehicular road used asphalt for the entryway, main frontage and exit.

3.4.2.1 TYPOLOGY OF ROAD

i. Freeway – North South Expressway

The North South Expressway consists of 8 lanes and one way, the middle 4 lanes are access to north and southern region of Malaysia. Between that, the 4 lanes can access to nearest streets and Ipoh city center. The total width of the lanes is 50 meters.

Figure 5.9: North South Expressway.

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ii. Arterial/Primary – Kuala Kangsar Road This route can access to Ipoh city center and Sg. Siput area. This roads consist of 6 lanes and two ways which divided by 2 meters width of island. The road have moderate congestion during peak hour on work, lunch and off hour. The total width of the lanes is 25 meters. (Refer figure)

Figure 6.0: Kuala Kangsar road.

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iii. Collector/Secondary – Persiaran Gunung Lang

This route can access to smaller street within the vicinity of Gunung Lang area and it consist of 4 lanes and 2 ways which are divided by

3 meters width of green island. The roads have low congestion during peak hours. The total width of the lanes is 17 meters.

Figure 6.1: Persiaran Gunung Lang.

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3.4.3 TRAFFIC FLOW The traffic flow at Gunung Lang Recreational Park were even because low numbers of car and motorist even though during peak hour and weekend.

Desa Lang Damai

Gunung Lang

Department of Landscape and Recreation Ipoh

Man-made waterfall

Lake

Plan 2.5: Vehicular traffic flow. Source: author

Legend

One way road Two way road Entrance Exit Maintenance Access

3.4.4 WATERWAYS The waterways in Gunung Lang Recreational Park was used to transport visitor from jetty area to the island area via tourist boat. The length of the route is 300 meters and estimated time is 15 minutes. The boats were used to operate during weekday and weekend. The small boat can carry 10-12 passengers and the medium boat carry 18-23 passengers.

Lake

Gunung Lang

Gunung Bilike

Plan 2.6: Tourist boat flow.

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Legend

Exit Tour Gunung Lang Recreational Park jetties is in perfect condition, thus the boat

Jetty 1

Jetty 2

Entry Tour

tourist service are quite slow during weekend because of high demand.

Figure 6.2: Jetty 2 at island area.

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Figure 6.3: Jetty 1 at entrance area.

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The condition and services of tourist boat were in good condition. From the boat ride activity, soil erosion occurred at some part of the park.

Figure 6.4: Lang 1 – Medium boat (18 -23 passenger).

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Figure 6.5: Lang 2 and 3 – Small boat (8-12 passenger). Source: author

Figure 6.6: Soil erosion due to boat ride activity and loose soil structure. Source: author

3.4.5 PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION There are several tertiary road in Gunung Lang Recreational Park and its vicinity which are differentiated in 3 types which is footpath, cow path and boulevard. The materials used for the entryway, jetty and park area are different

Legend Footpath

Cowpath

Hotspot area / view

Plan 2.7: Pedestrian flow at Jetty area. Source: author

Legend Footpath

Cowpath Boulevard Decking path

Hotspot area / view

Plan 2.8: Pedestrian flow at island area. Source: author

3.4.5.1 TYPOLOGY OF PATH a)

Footpath The footpath linkages are located at the entrance of the Landscape and Recreation Department building, ‘Laman Perak’, jetty, and island area. The

width of the footpath varies within the specific area and the material also varies from asphalt, pebble wash, concrete imprint and fiber. Most of the footpath are in good condition, however there are some footpath area are not well placed and some of it have crack which can harm the users.

Figure 6.7: 12 meter wide asphalt footpath around Figure 6.8: Building frontage of Ipoh Landscape and

Gunung Lang Recreational Park are in good condition. Recreation Department made by concrete and pebble Source: author wash finishing. Source: author

Figure 6.9: ‘Laman Perak’ walkway are varies in materials Figure 7.0: 3 meter wide of fiber-like-wooden walkway at

and are 2 meters wide. island area that give connection to playground area. Source: author Source: author

Figure 7.1: 3 meter wide of concrete imprint walkway Figure 7.2: 5 meter wide of asphalt road at the island area.

throughout the island area. This man made cave access were used for maintenance

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and emergency purposes. Source: author

Figure 7.3: One of the concrete imprint walkway were Figure 7.4: 3 meter wide of concrete walkway near the damage from the uprooting of Samanea Saman trees.

exit of island area was in good condition.

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b) Boulevard The boulevards mostly were located at the island area having 5 meters width and 200 meters of length. The materials used were concrete imprint.

Figure 7.5: View towards the observation tower from Figure 7.6: View towards the heritage plaza archway from heritage plaza. The condition of the boulevard are in boulevard direction.

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great condition.

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c) Cow path The cow path linkages are based on the human behavior that tend to take the nearest path to the desired destination. Most of the cow path are scattered around the park. It is mostly scattered at the parking area, man-made waterfall area, ‘Laman Perak’ and playground area. The cow paths in the park that are unpaved are less attractive to the users.

Figure 7.7: Unpaved path to man-made waterfall area Figure 7.8: Unpaved path to resting area at ‘Laman Perak’.

which lack of physical linkage.

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Figure 7.9: Cow path from the parking to the playground Figure 8.0: Cow path from the parking to the man-made area.

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3.4.6 PEDESTRIAN FLOW The rate pedestrian flows vary according to the climate, point of interest and accessible to the destination. However the flow during weekdays are low in human movement, whereas during weekend the flow occurred from moderate to high during peak hour. The hotspot areas are mostly centered to jetty, man- made waterfall, playground areas, mini zoo, heritage plaza, mural wall, observation tower and natural limestone wall.

a) Hotspot at entrance area.

Figure 8.1: View towards man-made waterfall. During peak Figure 8.2: Playground area for children in front of hour, this spot become crowded with visitor and activity.

Jetty building equipped with resting area. Source: author Source: author

Figure 8.3: Tourist waiting for their boat ride at Jetty near Figure 8.4: Natural limestone wall and lake near exit of

to cascading waterfall.

the park.

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Figure 8.5: Attractive mural wall with seating equipment are the Figure 8.6: Dinosaur theme playground give

stop by for visitors to take picture. attraction to family and children at island area. Source: author Source: author

Figure 8.8: View towards mini-zoo. During peak hour, this Figure 8.7: Malay traditional house architecture at

heritage plaza at island area. spot become crowded with visitor and activity.

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Figure 9.0: The decking pathway is a spot for tourist to feed

monkey and fish beside act as a linkage to playground area.

Figure 8.9: Observation Tower give a glance view of Figure 9.1: Man-made cave give attraction to visitor to the island area and create an attraction to visitors.

experience cave features like stalactite and stalagmite.

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