The annual Standard Chartered KL Marathon will happen this Sunday (August 7), and roads in and around the capital city will be closed in stages. Affected roads are the AKLEH and DUKE highways as well as 22 other main roads.
According to Bernama, KL police chief Datuk Amar Singh said the AKLEH would be closed from 1.30am to 10.30am, while DUKE from 2.30am to 11.30am on the race day. The remaining roads would be closed on the same day from 4am and are expected to be reopened at noon.
The man in blue said the affected roads are Jalan Raja (Dataran Merdeka), Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Jalan Ampang, Jalan P. Ramlee, Jalan Raja Chulan, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan Kuching and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim (Jalan Duta).
Other roads that will be closed are Jalan Langgak Tunku, Jalan Bukit Tunku, Jalan Tunku, Jalan Tun Ismail, Jalan Dato Onn, Jalan Sultan Salahuddin, Jalan Parlimen, Jalan Damansara, Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar, Jalan Kinabalu, Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin and Jalan Tanglin.
Singh said a total of 300 police personnel will be deployed to direct traffic flow throughout the 42 km marathon, which will see 35,000 local and foreign participants run around the city. He advised road users to use public transport and avoid the affected roads.
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Why cause massive traffic jams? Why don’t have the marathon in Putrajaya and Cyberjaya?
The productivity lost due to massive traffic jams amount to milions
Other pipu dun need to work on Sunday. U need to work on Sunday cuz no sales for toyota junks. Its okays, I understandings.
hahahaha
Local Waze team has updated the closures for this coming event.
have some fun & colour in life la….close roads for healthy purpose, I support.
Before this, I was taught only Bersihs’ rally cause inconvenience..
Bersih started the ball rolling for causing mass inconvenience. Now everyone can inconvenience!
Waste time, waste effort. Want to run go run in the park, stadium lar, why kacau orang lain.
Tell that to Bers… oh wai
Pls go run in the jungle instead of closing so many roads inconvenience thousands