Gurney Drive

No rail station is named at Gurney Drive. The Mutiara Line LRT, a 29.67 km line with 20 stations plus two provisional ones, has its Macallum to Penang Sentral link due to start building in the third quarter of 2027, with completion targeted for December 2031. Nearer to hand, the seafront is being rebuilt: Gurney Bay's 29.98-hectare second phase is under way, the roundabout near Anjung Gurney is boarded up for sewer piping and a planned multi-lane expressway to Andaman Island, and a 602-bay multi-storey car park is planned after dozens of roadside bays were removed in May 2026.

Gurney Drive is the seafront strip of George Town's north-east coast, between Persiaran Gurney on the sea side and Jalan Kelawai inland. The road was laid on the shore in the 1930s and took its present name in 1952, hawkers have traded along it since the early 1970s, and today its towers, two shopping centres and a few temples stand within a few hundred metres of the water.

The waterfront is changing. Gurney Bay, a reclaimed park beside the road, opened its first 11.2 hectares in February 2024 with a promenade, playground and skate park, and a second phase of about 30 hectares is still being built. The hawker centre is due to move there in early 2027, with space planned for 127 hawker stalls. Roadside parking near Gurney Plaza was cut back in 2026 and a multi-storey car park is planned, because parked cars leave a single moving lane at peak times.

Getting around still means the road. The Mutiara Line LRT is planned across the island, with completion targeted for December 2031, but no station has been named at Gurney Drive.