Additional lanes planned for North-South Expressway

Additional lanes planned for North-South Expressway

The transport ministry says it is looking into the possibility of adding lanes along several busy stretches of the North-South Expressway to improve traffic flow, Bernama reports.

According to deputy transport minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi, the ministry is studying the addition of one or two lanes at congested stretches of the highway. He said that once the study was complete, a proposal will be tabled to the government.

“Several stretches have been identified, one of them being the Johor Baru-Ayer Hitam stretch,” he said, adding that the introduction of additional lanes, as well as an improved railway system in the future, will provide for smoother, more comfortable travel.

Ab Aziz also said that the ministry has identified several stretches of road in the risk category, and will be upgrading them to reduce accidents.

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  • eeeriz on Feb 13, 2018 at 2:49 pm

    About time, yeah!

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    • Iskandar on Feb 13, 2018 at 4:35 pm

      Integrated super highways are planned to provide access into the main southern development corridor Medini and Iskandar to ensure sustainable economic and social development in Johor.

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      • Sri Jayaraman on Feb 13, 2018 at 5:01 pm

        This means someone wants to make more money. Malaysia has the most expensive highways in the world. RM100 million per KM despite using super cheap Bangladeshi labour and without land acquisition.

        Hopefully the additional lanes don’t cost RM100 million per KM.

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        • Ur bluffing. PLUS exist long ago before foreign worker work here.

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          • But the construction of THAT hiway up north island isnt. Oh wai… that cost 3X more.

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    • Autobahn on Feb 13, 2018 at 6:56 pm

      Give 10 lanes also no use when you have 10 cars driving about the same speed on all lanes. Creating a long queue. First educate the road user to use left most lane to cruise. Second or middle lane to overtake and the fast lane to overtake the middle lane. And dont forget to ensure the left most lane road condition is in good shape. Most motorist trying to avoid using that lane because it is not in good shape due to heavy vehicles. Look at autobahn only 2 lanes but very smooth when the right lane speed to 200kmh while the left lane speed at 120kmh

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      • No point. You can educate all you want, but the mentality of those people remains the same.

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        • Sputjam on Feb 20, 2018 at 6:04 pm

          Because we need to translate our laws into multiple languages and dialect.

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  • applegreen on Feb 13, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    Once approved by gov, get ready for PLUS price hike

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  • Not Toyota Fan on Feb 13, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    The entire N-S expressway requires at least an additional lane to cope with existing volume of traffic. If major public holidays, even an additional lane isn’t enough.

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    • Correct, correct, correct 1000000%

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    • Sputjam on Feb 20, 2018 at 6:06 pm

      They already building banting to changkat jering highway to disperse traffic from nse.but hopefully, the new highway will be 6 lanes.

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  • Ji Kao on Feb 13, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    Why border adding more lanes while you keep closing one lane and charge us full toll price.

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    • One lane closure is for maintenance during off-peak periods. Hiway roads dun maintain by itself.

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  • Ben Yap on Feb 13, 2018 at 3:47 pm

    government must make local flights and train more affordable like family package thingy. so people don’t have to drive.

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  • What PLUS going to do between Senawang and Seremban Exit … still congested! Must do like what Ipoh stretche done.

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    • You cannot see along the stretch, left and right side don’t have any road reserve anymore. PLUS need to pay a lot of compensation to possess the residential land and you think that the house owner simply want to sell their house over money? Not worth lah.. the maximum lane for all expressway in Malaysia can go up to 4 lane per direction, depending how much the width of road reserve..

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      • Not necessary same as Ipoh Exit. PLUS can make new lane on top current lane just for that particular stretche!

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  • Not so highway on Feb 13, 2018 at 4:01 pm

    Many times when driving on those 4 lanes stretches from Seremban to KL, we have cases trafficking at 90kmh or slower on lane 3.
    On lane 2, we have cars driven at 60 – 80kmh, many of them slower than the lorries on lane 1, the left most lane.
    So, you can build a 10 lanes highway. People continue to hog it, traffic jams will never be solved.

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    • jibbymah888 on Feb 13, 2018 at 4:40 pm

      lol bro I totally agree on this point.. orang Malaysia lemabab syok sendiri drive 3rd & 4th lane @ 90km/h

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      • peter on Feb 13, 2018 at 6:18 pm

        Aren’t certain stretches between KL and Seremban having a speed limit of either 80kmh or 90kmh?

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        • Having speed limit does not mean that u can hog the right lane when the left lane is empty..

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    • HeavyVehicleNeed2 on Feb 13, 2018 at 6:20 pm

      1st lane for slow heavy vehicles
      2nd lane for slightly faster heavy vehicles to overtake the heavy vehicles on the 1st lane.
      3rd lane is for light vehicles with speed at 70-90 Km/h
      4th Lane is for speeding vehicles..
      So in the end, those who speed at 100 or more get very frustrated…

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      • 4th lane not for speeding. Its for overtaking. 4th lane also need to obey the speed limit.

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    • Lane 1 should be right-most lane.

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  • mansnothot on Feb 13, 2018 at 4:12 pm

    No matter how many lanes, MOST Malaysians will drive at the 2nd lane from the right, no matter how slow they are even if a lorry high beam them.
    The most right will then be for the one trying to overtake but it will also be over-crowded, because u cannot overtake from the left!.
    The notice of “kenderaan berat ikut kiri” is being misunderstood by most of us.

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  • Honda Fan on Feb 13, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    The main reason for traffic jam in all the major highways in Malaysia in not purely because of number of lanes or too many cars. One of the main reason is still those idiots driving slow but hogging the fast lane. This is just too common as many times I have experienced drivers driving at 80km/h on the fast lane of the 3 lanes highway refused to give way for 3-5km even after I kept flashing the headlights.

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    • Sam 'john' Loo on Feb 13, 2018 at 6:09 pm

      Add how many lanes also, one important point is, Malaysian motorists, be it lane hogger (fast/fastest lane) or speedsters maniac on fastest lane are truly a w**k*rs that need to be pulled off from the road and dragged into Kamunting (northern part) or Simpang Renggam (southern part) detention center, only then the ‘phantom’ traffic jam can be alleviated since many of them DON’T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE.

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      • Borneo Darul Seram on Feb 13, 2018 at 8:27 pm

        Most probably either the road hoggers have right leg/foot arthritis or poor eye long sightness vision. LOL

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  • OrdinaryMalaysian on Feb 13, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    It took the government/minister this long to know the congestion issue. It shows their quality as well…. so sad

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    • Agreed. Our minister is too detailed and cautious in their study and not just take one festival period to fully understand traffic conditions. But best study is still island unstarted tunnel. So many years still in study phase. Most bestest minister there.

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    • Sputjam on Feb 20, 2018 at 6:13 pm

      But what was PLUS doing? They were suppose to i form the minister.

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  • Indyariya on Feb 13, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    The whole north south highway need 3 lanes on each sides.Period

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  • Make the additional lane with minimum 130kph speed limit and ban buses and lorries from that lane.

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  • mobile on Feb 13, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    And pls introduce minimum speed limit on overtaking lanes (middle, most right line). Saman when neccessary. The highways not meant for speed devil but road hoggers too.

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  • Sgt Scoop on Feb 14, 2018 at 7:40 am

    Good idea, Transport Ministry!

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  • still want to study… by the time study is done… proposal is made and eventual additional lanes are added it will already be inadequate.

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  • 2 lanes highway is most stupid decision ever
    bodoh ape la

    atau long term income for cronies?

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    • Back in the 80s, there isnt that many cars now. Paham?

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    • Doh..PLUS/north-south highway are there long long time ago before My pipu got so much money to own a car. Ko gila ka apa when car density is lower years years ago but PLUS build a 8 lane highway at that time.

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  • Hazri on Feb 14, 2018 at 11:40 am

    even we have 10 lanes but malaysians still drive on the right/overtaking lane and ignore remaining 9 lanes eventhough they drive at 50km/h!

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  • One of the way to alleviate congestion is to introduce minimum speed limit (i.e 80-90kmh) for certain stretch of highway. There are still buggers driving at 60kmh on PLUS highway causing massive congestion. These drivers should be throuwn out from the highway…

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  • One of the way to alleviate congestion is to introduce minimum speed limit (i.e 80-90kmh) for certain stretch of highway. There are still buggers driving at 60kmh on PLUS highway causing massive congestion. These drivers should be throuwn out from the highway…

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  • Sputjam on Feb 14, 2018 at 10:11 pm

    They should have widened the highway 10 years ago. Not thinking about it now.

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  • ZeroH on Feb 23, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    Additional lane between Slim River and Sungkai is a definite must! Whole CNY jam no matter what hour…

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