GEORGE TOWN, Oct. 2 -- Major traffic diversion along the busy main roads in Bayan Lepas will start early next year to make way for the Penang LRT Mutiara line construction works.

SRS Consortium project director Adil Putra Ahmad said preparatory works for the construction of the LRT line is now underway.

"We are expecting to start major traffic diversion and rerouting traffic along Japan Sultan Azlan Shah sometime mid-January next year," he said during a town hall session on the LRT project with industries in the Free Industrial Zone organised by InvestPenang at PSDC here today.

He said the traffic diversion will start at the junction from Kampung Jawa to the junction of Mayang Pasir.

He said this meant that the three-lane road will be...