Good news abound, Klang Valley motorists. The construction of a new elevated highway that will connect Bangsar to Pusat Bandar Damansara is currently underway, and the 1.34 km-long stretch is expected to be completed by June 2020.
Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor told Bernama that the highway, which starts from the junction of the Sprint Highway (from Jalan Maarof to Jalan Semantan) will shorten the journey from Bangsar to Pusat Bandar Damansara. He also said it will have three lanes in each direction, with one direction elevated to help ease traffic congestion around the area.
The RM211 million project would receive RM130 million in allocation from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), he added.
“The project scope covers the upgrading [of] the existing road, earthworks and slope protection to provide a pedestrian path for the comfort of [the] people,” he said at the groundbreaking ceremony of the project.
Tengku Adnan explained that the project was a DBKL initiative, and is designed to ease pedestrians moving between Pusat Bandar Damansara and Bangsar. “We are informed [that] Pusat Bandar Damansara will be undergoing rapid development which required the upgrading of the roads in the area,” he explained.
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With the MRT up and running, and Park n Ride building in concurrent with PBD redevelopment, there needs to be smooth traffic flow in and out. PBD will be the next township hub & the current gridlock traffic during peak hours must be resolved.
As a well regarded town planner, the RM211 million funds should be spent instead in impoverished KL areas like Pantai Dalam, Datuk Keramat & Kg Pandan. In much dire needs of better connectivity & public infra improvement than Bangsar-Damansara.
While those areas r oso jam at times, those r not due to any other factors except spillover from Federal hiway. Cant help much about it.
Meanwhile, this new hiway is to route traffic from Bangsar (Jalan Maarof) towards Jalan Tunku Abd Halim whereby it bypasses the chokepoint at Jalan Johar due to traffic coming from SPRINT. Althou further down another chockpoint is at underpass heading towards KL Sentral. Cant do much about that thou…
Solve what la, buy more cars ,cheap road tax and petrol.Jalan kaki also faster than ride car.
Hopefully will increase jam and traffic .
Would be nice to have a map of the route the highway would take
Hopefully the toll, if there is any, is not too high. Gomen collecting like RM100 bil from GST alone, they should use this money for such projects.
Tido too much until never read news and just pluck figures cave wall kah? Kastam estimate GST collection for 2018 is:
[KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 ― The Malaysian government is expected to collect RM43.8 billion in Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 2018]
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“The scope of work includes site clearance and demolition works, earthworks, drainage works, pavement works, construction of pedestrian walkways, installation of streetlights, reinforced earth wall and upgrading of current roads.”
So yeah… no tolls. Tenkiu gov.
now toll free roads in the city are a blessing if given..as if its normal for govt to build toll roads..we are oppressed too much by govt till thinking like this
Perlaksanaan GST kurangkan kos sara hidup dan harga barangan harian. Syukur azhar…
What will those living along jalan maarof say? Jalan maarof is a residential area.better to build a tunnel underneath the homes.
Its start from the tail end of Jalan Maarof which is beside PBD station. That area has no residentials beside it. Much of the homes adjacent that road ends at Jalan Medan Serai.
DBKL should invest the money in solving existing problems. Just wait till TNB finishes its redevelopments on Jalan Bangsar & Jalan Bukit Patai 3,000 additional office workers, 54 floor storey hotel/retail and DBKL or TNB won’t release the traffic studies..say they are confidential.. may disclose future planned but unannounced developments. Better buy a kampung house in Kampung Bahru before they pull them down and only walk around KL. DBKL need to hire some consultants that can do town and traffic planning because they obviously can’t.