Those who use the Sprint Highway daily, you would have noticed a worsening of traffic from PJ to Bangsar in the past few months, especially during rush hours. Guess what, the already bad congestion is set to go up by a few notches with this latest development.
DBKL has announced that there will dismantling and building work with regards to an overhead bridge at Jalan Johar, Bangsar. The work will start tomorrow, October 29 – as such, the entry to Jalan Maarof and Bangsar from the Sprint Highway (PJ to KL direction) will be fully closed to traffic from the date. No end date mentioned in the press release, so this diversion will be for an indefinite period.
This means that you no longer will be able to go up the Bangsar hill by turning right at the Sprint Jalan Maarof exit (2314). The alternative route is a big hassle – one full round of the ongoing Pavilion Damansara Heights development (formerly known as Pusat Bandar Damansara) before reaching the base of Jalan Maarof at the MRT station.
It’s going to be chaos, affecting everyone using the Sprint and not just those heading to Bangsar. Alternative routes from PJ to KL would be via Penchala Link, the road towards Hartamas and Mont Kiara, Kerinchi Link/Jalan Syed Putra or Universiti Malaya/Jalan Syed Putra. You would know that these routes are all clogged without the extra load, so good luck to us all. In any case, drive safe and be patient, because that’s all we can do.
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Is this part of Pavilion’s plan to capture more customers from Bangsar?
No. Pavilion is a shopping mall while Bangsar is a pub & club hangout spot.
Pav is not open yet. These are the flyovers into the area, probably won’t affect the right turn in the future. However it’ll lead to 6 months of jam for those working in that area
Aiks Danny Tan…sounds like you’re super frustrated bro. It’s OK mate. Can go home via Federal Highway and Bukit Pantai.
The authorities should make it a condition that Construction of new highways should not affect current roads.
The contractors have slready shut down two lanes out of four causing a bottleneck near the semantan mrt station which previously was free flowing.
Main cause of jam where i live in jelatek is due to highway construction which has taken 8 years. We suffer more from construction of new highways than benefit from it.
If I understand the multiple news reports correctly, it’s not an overhead bridge at Jalan Johar, but the actual Damansara Link flyover alongside Jalan Johar that will be demolished and rebuilt? So based on the first photo above in this article, the right side i.e. KL/Jalan Duta/PWTC/PBD will also be closed? Most news reports are also reporting the estimated completion as March 2023. From experience I’m expecting additional 30+ minutes travelling time from PJ to KL, and that’s during semi-peak hours… What a mess and such a major announcement with less than 1 day notice
It was announced at least a week ago but PBD regular users would prolly guess this happen someday and mentally prepared for it.
Endless mess with MRT/LRT on one side and road construction on the other. Never seen a smooth traffic in KL for more than 30yrs except on long public holidays. Looks like it will not end any soon. Authorities need to learn from best practices and put a stop to this.
And during covid lockdown
I have never seen a best practice roadworks that never caused trouble to road users. Can name me one?
All our contractors and highway concession holders are selfish lot. They only think sbout themselves and not the road users. Anyhow block lanes like grandfathers road.
The junction near PWTC cannot done until now for years already. Creating unnecessary traffic jam. Cap ayam nominated contractor by DBKL.
this is madness.. but oh well, typical Malaysian authority