Bad news for those who need to get from the east to west coast – the East Coast Highway (LPT1) is still flooded. According to LLM’s update just before noon, the Karak-Temerloh (Kuantan-bound) and Temerloh-Lanchang (KL-bound) stretches are still flooded and are closed to all vehicles. The image above, from LLM’s Facebook post, shows how bad it is there.
The main east-west artery was not passable to traffic yesterday due to flooding at the Karak to Lanchang stretch. All this is of course due to the constant and heavy rain that has been pounding the country, bringing with it lower temperatures and grey skies.
According to the official media statement by LPT1 operator Anih Berhad, the KM 84.6 to KM 84.7 stretch (KL-bound) that was flooded yesterday was opened at 9am this morning, but the eastbound stretch is still closed. At KM 113 in Lanchang, the highway is closed to traffic both ways following a rise in water levels since 9pm yesterday night.
If you have to get back to the Klang Valley, delay your journey or take alternative routes, although any such option will be packed with traffic. As the roads are wet, keep a bigger gap to the vehicle in front and stay safe.
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Do you have any further information on the commdnt u have passed here?
P1 should start developing an amphibians vehicle
Why they don’t make the longkang bigger since we have monsoon seasons every year ? Doesn’t the longkang looks too small to drain all the water ?
Look at the longkang bro, water stagnant there means it’s clogged somewhere else the water levels would have slowly subsided lol.
You will need longkangs the size of rivers to flow out monsoon flows la friend. Even countries like France, Japan & recently Norway cannot avoid surge in bad weather despite knowing it will happen. Forces of Nature is not something easily dealt with even with knowledge it will occur.
Imma gonna get meself an APC as my next vehicle. Flood? Traffic jam? Land slide? Just drive through it
The highway now transformed to a Canal.
Our nation is the 1st country to have an infrastructure that can change itself due to rain.
So as Japan, France and recently Norway. Too bad we’re not the first.
take airasia la. support them a bit as a lot of pilots and cabin crew no job.