Pedestrian friendly streets in the city and the impact to the urban street users / Mohammad Azral Adanan

The study of pedestrian friendly in a city is based on the current problems particularly that occur at the proposed site, Section 14, Shah Alam, and generally for main city centres in Malaysia. The purpose of this study is to give recommendations for improvements of pedestrian systems in Shah Alam city centre, besides find the way to overcome those pedestrian problems. To make the study successful, there are 2 methods are being used. The methods are consists the primer data collections and secondary data collections. The primer data is based on the surveyed on the street users, besides from the researcher observations. For the secondary data collections, those get from Government Agency like local authority (MBSA). In addition, some of sources are from library and through readings. The result shows Shah Alam city centre has plenty of pedestrian problems. Most of the problems are touched on the pedestrian security, safety, maintenance, pedestrian design and facilities provided.