The works ministry has announced that the government has agreed to the proposal for the widening of the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway on the eastbound stretch, for additional lanes from the Gombak toll plaza to the Bentong toll plaza.
This is in order to accommodate the increased traffic flow and mitigate congestion that often occurs on the highway towards the East Coast, and a new tunnel will also be constructed in Genting Sempah to help ease traffic congestion as well, the ministry added.
Further upcoming highway upgrading works will also include the construction of flood barriers along Phase 1 of the East Coast Expressway (LPT1) due to frequent flooding on the highway.
These highway upgrading works have taken into account the restructured toll rates that will be lower from October across six highways, which were announced following the official launch of the Damansara-Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (DASH), while additional concession agreements are being finalised, the works ministry said.
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Nice. After this become 4 lanes. 70% of the vehichles will use the right most lane thinking they are faster than the 30% and deserved to be on the lane.
While the slower 3rd lane user will overtake the car infront and uses the 4th lane, but because they are slightly slow, they end up slowing down the supposedly “fast lane”.
While the 1st lane and 2nd lane user enjoy driving slower and steady, just occasionally overtake a slow lorry only. (No lorries during festive season).
Have seen this all the times. PLUS Nilai – Seremban strech.
wrong education since beginning thus the outermost lane is presumed as fast lane for car cruising within speed limit instead of outermost lane is overtaking lane…..
Yes. Indeed. That’s why I always drive on the left most lane. Because I drive drive within speed limit, and I don’t intend to overtake because the lane has less vehicle.
5 lanes, not 4. Look at the photo, currently already 4 lanes.
Nah.
We will just have lorries in 3 of the 4 lanes on the uphill sections.
Lol
At KL-Karak highway, what speed do you think slow & steady?
induced demand
beneficiaries? the souped up cars that drive as if they can
Then whats the purpose of having ECRL if Govt still widened the road? Wrong move as always.
What mangkok question is this? Go find out what ECRL is for.
That is like asking if you have bicycles why still need cars. Totally irrelevant things to compare. A stupid comment.
Please build more highway in and out KL. Can’t wait to travel to east coast
Might as well bore a new straight tunnel from Ampang all the way to LPT1, bypassing KL Karak highway altogether…
ECRL currently doing just that. But the most, maybe 4 trains will pass the tunnel every hour.
Should build a new highway connecting Seremban dan Temerloh so people around Seremban, Nilai, Kajang, Bangi, Semenyih can avoid KL altogether making their way eastwards and returning back.
This is the purpose of CSR highway but not sure why they ended it in Simpang Pelangi rather than connecting with SILK
CSR JKR
so ECRL not selling points after widened lanes
The comments here don’t even take into account the busiest stretch of highways. If anything the North South highway southern stretch could have more love, 3 lanes should be standard from seremban all the way to Johor Bahru, current traffic volumes causes congestion even on a normal weekday.
Its already 4 lanes each way to seremban and 3 lanes each way to malacca but its still not enough during long holidays.
KL to ipoh should be 3 lanes each way 15 years ago. I stop driving on highways during holidays due to congestion 10 years ago.
And JB to kluang, sg petani to sg dua in Prai should be widened too.
LPT is one of the worst highway as it’s uneven and bouncy (with flooding it’s even worst). Some cars brake and bounces off to road shoulder. Compacting earth work need to be done soonest.
They should fix each lane with min & max speed, not mahu laju ikut kiri. Lane tengah speed ikut suka aku.
Even 10 lanes r useless if old cars r not scrap