TRISHAW – THE FADING MASTERPIECE OF CULTURE IN MALAYSIA 🌞 BY:- HANNANI SYAKIRAH BINTI MOHD IDRUS (2015105681) (PHM1114A1) & MAZNI SAADON (2015734307) (PHM1114A1) When my partner and I look at my photo albums, we noticed that both of us have some trishaw pictures and decided to write about it. Mazni and I were no historian but we all know that trishaw was one of the main transportation in Malaysia up to the 70s. Since then, rapid urbanisation has increased demand for more efficient public transport, resulting in the decreasing numbers of trishaws. We try to remember hard the memories that we had been through but both of us can only remember when we rode on two during our trip in Malacca and Penang. Rickshaws were a common mode of transport in urban areas of Malaysia in the 19th and early 20th centuries until gradually replaced by cycle rickshaws ( beca in Malay). Today, they are operated as tourist attraction, mainly in Melaka, Penang,
