Two years ago, paultan.org posted a video highlighting the dangers of the Federal Highway motorcycle lane. This was followed by promises from the previous government that the lane would be upgraded.
Today, a pilot motorcycle lane tunnel upgrade project was previewed by the Works Department (JKR) to the Works Minister, Tuan Baru Bian, at the Sungai Way tunnel in Jalan 222, Petaling Jaya. This is the first of a series of upgrades to 8.1 km of the motorcycle lane, starting at the Selangor Golf Club to the Kota Darul Ehsan Arch.
The upgrade works also include improved drains as well as lane drainage to alleviate the problem of tunnel flooding. The tunnel entry, tunnel itself and exit are now coated in anti-skid paint with a skid number of 60 SN, twice the usual requirement of 30 to 35 SN, along with reflective chevrons and signage to increase visibility.
Painted in three colours, the anti-skid paint is red at the tunnel entrance to warn riders to slow down, blue inside the tunnel proper and green at the exit to signify that riders can now accelerate back to the speed limit.
There are a total of 14 tunnels along the entire 28.5 kilometre stretch of the Federal Highway motorcycle lane, in- and out-bound, with certain areas previously under the care of highway concessionaires and town councils handed back to JKR in January this year. Two tunnels – in- and out-bound from Kuala Lumpur – on the motorcycle lane at Jalan 222 will be closed and replaced by fly-overs, due to be opened in October.
In addition, two more tunnels located at Nanyang Siang Pau and Jalan Utara heading towards Kuala Lumpur will be upgraded as part of the next phase of works. Upgrading works will be carried out in stages by JKR and no completion date was given.
Speaking on the dangers of the motorcycle lane, specifically the design and size, Baru said, “we are constrained by the space available, as there is no room to expand the lanes or construct proper entries and exits.” Baru advised riders using the motorcycle lane to exercise caution and ride to the posted speed limit.
There is no danger if all motorcyclists don’t drive like lunatic
same goes to car drivers
No car driver complaining though
Motorcyclist squeeze through traffic on Federal Hway like zero-value-life… How do you straighten this?
please use your signal. but I am not sure bmw, mazda, p2, toyota, nissan have this function or not.
the govt should ban motorbikes to use the highway instead and save the 500k budget for hospital and school..
All this is a waste of money as the rempits will never use these lanes.
It’s sad that after all these decades, the govt still doesn’t understand the degenerates….
Rempit’s aside there are thousands of peoples commuting on motorcycle day and night to work that will benefit from this.
Not a valid reason for them not to use the motorcycle lane provided for them.
When it rains the motorcycle tunnel gets flooded thus becomes unsafe for ALL motorist not only motorcycles.
The problems with motorcycle lanes in malaysia are that they are not safe. MY friends and i always encounter hooligans or robbers waiting for you. Never ride your motorcycle alone on these paths
Second is the road hazards. No one even bother to manage it because if you think typical roads have lousy potholes to lousy repairs… try motorcycle lane. Its even worse than kampong roads
Third is that there are no surveillance like ever or a help 24/7 phone. If someone caught a accident in there it will cause huge traffic and how do you expect ambulance to go in that tight space?
Motorcyclist starts setting up traps and capture the hooligans or robbers stripped them naked then tied up on the coconut tree lets the big orange color ants bite their cuckoo bird?
From now on, we don’t want to see any motorcycle on the highway.Can we?
How many highways got motorcyle lane? Also, if you tried riding a bike on the Kesas bike lane and can make it out safe you are one lucky fella…
Nope, there’s still construction at Nanyang Siang Pau and Jalan Utara (as per article). Furthermore, several of the additional junctions built does not connect to the motorcycle lane (if I recall the flyover from Midvalley towards PJ), and the Bangsar South/Kerinchi Link area is currently still a mess
Please, finally. There are riding at the between of the 2nd and 3rd fast lane in peak hours. That’s dangerous.
That’s because the mcycle lane was closed la bodoh. For upgrading works. Try riding a bike in the left lane when suddenly a car cuts in front of you because driver wants to exit federal highway into Jalan 222, or glenmarie, or bkt raja aeon.
the reason why they do that is because they closed bike lane since last year.motorist didnt have any other option.
And so motorist have very good reason to use fast lane and risk themselves getting hit, or speed up like a normal car?
It’s a good job to make the lanes safer. However, I think they should not try to polities the event. You can see in one of the pictures a map of Seri Setia and other parliamentary boundaries. So happens Seri Setia by election is happening tomorrow. Coincidence?
great, so they are the clowns that created a massive jam on the federal highway yesterday. whole circus came to view the “upgraded” tunnel.
What happen when the road is slanted and have poor drainage?
1.Water will flow from higher side to lower side.Heavy rain with heavy flow can easily wask away front end of a bike regardless at what speed. Even cars are affected.
2.Flood….even car cannot go thru, let alone bike.
Why need anti skid paint? Its because of poor drainage.it will cause stagnant water and then the road will be covered with moss, not good for vehicle esp bikes. I bet the paint will be covered in moss if the drainage problem is not solve.
Why dont they talk abt thief waiting at these area? CCTV is reactive not preventive. If no proactive action like sending unit when any abnormality detected from CCTV then it will only come into play when shit has happen.
“Upgrading works will be carried out in stages by JKR and no completion date was given.”
This is more constructive comments ever. With unlimited project deadline, this construction taken more than 2 years work++. Very efficient project and caused traffic jam from Subang airport towards federal highway.
Dear journalist at paultan.org, it’s already November. Still not complete. Can we motorcyclist actually sue them since they already promised. I’m still using the freeway to get to work at Midvalley which sometimes are dangerous not only to me, but to other motorist and drivers.