Preliminary works of the the Jelapang-Selama-Batu Kawan Expressway (JELAS) is expected to start next month and be completed by 2018, The Star reports. The new RM4.6 billion highway will start from the North-South Expressway (NSE) at Meru Raya and link back to the North-South Expressway in Batu Kawan.
Spanning a total length of 116 km, the JELAS Expressway is planned on unused land. Both north- and south-bound roads will consist of three lanes each. Moreover, the entire stretch of the expressway will have solar-powered LED street lighting. Furthermore, the expressway will see a three km tunnel, which will pass through the Bintang Mountain range – claimed to be the longest tunnel to be built in Asia.
It will have a total of 10 interchanges at Klebang, Kanthan Baru, Sungai Siput, Karai, Kati, Anak Kurau, Batu Kurau, Selama, Serdang and Lima Kongsi. Beta Mutiara Corp (BMC) group executive chairman, Tan Sri Bahadon Haji Ariffin said, “we plan to start our preliminary works, which is a survey on the final alignment and soil investigation next month.”
Sanctioned by the Perak and Penang state governments back in 2010, the project is said to be awaiting the final approval from the Public-Private Partnership Unit under the Prime Minister’s Department. “We are very confident of getting the approval. We are preparing for a launch of the project during the first week of next year,” the chairman said.
Bahadon noted that an agreement will be signed between the government to have fixed concession fares for the first 50 years. While the price of the fares have yet to be determined, this essentially means that there will be no fare hikes during the five-decade period.
Aside from boosting the economy of towns in the areas, the JELAS Expressway will ease traffic congestion on the NSE particularly during the weekends or holiday seasons.
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3km tunnel is not the longest in asia..in japan there are a few tunnels more than 5 km long..
Talk by reading or cakap-cakap sahaja?
i lived 6 years in japan..
proof by giving proper evidence that 3km is not the longest in Asia, not by claiming live in certain country for years…
Duhhh.
I live years oversea so I say 5 star Australasian NCAP Preve is disease car compared to my 30 years old Volvo. Stupid.
Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) in Singapore with about 8.5 kilometres underground.
Yes I agree with you. The tunnel road infact is in the sea.
3Km is not even considered as longest in Korea neither. The largest and longest turnnel in Korea is 4 lanes wide for each direction and 11km long.
Maybe the longest in SE Asia tho.
Now, longest in china.
So lets shed some light on Bumi contractor’s business model: the rent-seeking zero-risk world of overnight entrepreneurship.
Exhibit A:
URGENT…hanya untuk lesen kontraktor kelas A
BMT JELAS (Lebuhraya Jelapang Selama Batu Kawan). Nilai projek Rm 2.7B (PIF) melalui Sistem Sukuk Elaf Bank of Bahrain. Jangka take off bulan Mei atau Jun 2011. Syarat utk kontraktor ambil pakej ( 1 pakej 4 -5 km anggaran nilai Rm 80 – Rm 100 juta) iaitu keluarkan surat minat atas alamat (BMT JELAS SDN.BHD. Up: Dato Bahadon Bin Ariffin) bersama profile company. BQ akan dikeluarkan dan buat pengiraan dlm masa 1 minggu dan serah balik utk lock 1.5 % dgn Bank Draf dan bakinya 3.5 % akan dipotong melalui progress payment dan akan dipulangkan balik 5% selepas projek tamat. Utk introduser under taking 3 % drp nilai projek dan bayaran melalui progress payment bulan 1 hingga 3. Claim progress payment 1 bulan dgn Hong Leong Bank. Jika minat kena segera sebab pakej dah tak banyak tinggal .
Bestnya! Jom kita memperkasakan agenda Bumi dan martabatkan usahawan Melayu!
The concession model is a zero-risk get-rich-quick scheme only open to Bumi entrepreneurs who have a konek-si a.k.a. connection aka cable aka kabel besar bro.
Build a highway to nowhere, financing from shady Mid-east banks – in this case Elaf, an Iraqi bank – and get gomen to guarantee the loan. 50 year concession period! collect toll for 50 years, pay off the construction cost in 15-20 years, and 30 years of pure income there-after for yourself your child grandchild great grandchild. The latter will be seen in Jln Doraisamy driving a Porsche 918 and opening 50 Moet in one night bcos daddy-kasi.
Similar schemes: MEX highway, DUKE. No engineering knowledge or commercial acumen needed. Buat jalan, kutip tol 50 tahun. Best business in the world.
Another project with zero capital and expect to “tadahtangan” for 50 years. If traffic volume is low, motorists will suffer with a higher rate. Even with PLUS, high traffic volume, toll rate keep on increasing. Till when??…the answer is “as i wish”.
Users will like it, non-users will curse it. Thats life
will there be exit to kuala kangsar ?
poor thing, kk being bypassed again!
Kati is at Kuala Kangsar bro
Isn’t the Plus highway has kuala kangsar exit? & kati is close to kuala kangsar.
Just upgrade the stretch of North south highway to 6 lanes and it could works for the next 30 years. No point to build this highway
There are points for those affected area. You might not like the implementation but dont deny the benefit for other people.
How do you propose to widen the lane at Terowong Menora? Care to share?
I live in Lenggong and totally see the point.
And adding more lanes is not the solution. How can enabling more cars to fit in at a certain distant is the solution. If you study physics, it is not.
Why dont compare with smart tunnel which 4 km long.
Hopefully this will solve the heavy traffic before plaza tol Ipoh. However, there was always jam from Simpang Pulai to Gopeng too.
Kisah apa panjang ka pendek ka , tak keuntungan langsung kpd rakyat . yg rakyat dpt hnyalah beban .
simpan skt bodoh to..bro…
nak cepat kena bayar la….
Nice move and well done. Hopefully the toll rates not as we call cekik darah otherwise we need to stick with NSE. And wow for the 3km tunnel. That one should consume most of RM4.6b budget.
Sure they toll kau kau at damn high rates ..
So how’s the project? Launched yet?
ah…langsung
got Kati karai and sg siput exit.