On 29 July 2009 several residents in the Danau Kota area and I presented a Petition signed by more than 500 residents protesting against the Danau Kota Uptown Pasar Malam. The biggest gripe of the residents here is that it operates daily from 10.00 pm to 4.00 am and the miseries the Pasar Malam had brought about.
Datuk Bandar KL and DBKL, to be utterly honest, shouldn’t pasar malams be strictly a once-a-week affair and be confined to the sanely hours of 5.00 pm to 11.00 pm?
A little history: This Pasar Malam was initially operating at Uptown Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya, and due to protests from the residents and shopkeepers in the area, it was moved to Section 2 in Wangsa Maju. Again, the residents of Section 2 protested and it was then relocated to Danau Kota.
Originally DBKL announced that this Pasar Malam would be limited to the trading of
