The Petaling Jaya city council (MBPJ) has announced that the planned implementation of a contraflow arrangement involving several roads in Petaling Jaya will be cancelled permanently from April 19, The Star reports.
The decision not to go ahead with the plan comes following a trial run for it. In February, the council had announced that from March 1, it would begin closing several roads and intersections from 5pm to 7.30pm on weekdays to test out the contraflow route for a period of three months.
The roads and intersections involved were the Jalan Othman–Jalan Templer intersection, the Jalan Gasing–Jalan Templer intersection, the Jalan Templer–Jalan 6/29 intersection and every median opening on Jalan Templer.
During the trial run, motorists coming from the direction of Jalan Gasing heading to Jalan Othman were asked to use Jalan Changgai 6/22 or Jalan Anak Gasing 6/5-Jalan Tinggi 6/12-Jalan Selangor, while those travelling from the direction of Jalan Othman to New Pantai Expressway (NPE) were required to make a u-turn at the Assunta hospital roundabout.
The news publication had earlier reported Bukit Gasing assemblyman Rajiv Rishyakaran as saying that day one of the trial run had resulted in bad congestion at the Assunta roundabout, with motorists resorting to making illegal u-turns at road medians along Jalan Templer.
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Why berpuluh tahun gone gasing, templer, othman only 1 exit to okr, cannot open 1~2 more exit?
Glad that MBPJ pulled the plug early
Roundabout / U-turn mmg susah
Kekurangan moral tolak-ansur
dan sikap khemah-tinggi
Poor planning, land sold to private developers. It’s a curse,then option is build highway
Once more shortsighted planning by PH appointed councilors never do proper risk & failure analysis and never consider all the other possibilities leading to 1st Day traffic jam failures. This tells me they are not locals coz if they stayed there they would know that Assunta roundabout is constantly jam during peak and by routing more traffic to that area, it only makes the worse become worst.
Woi stop approving more high density dwellings in PJ la. Mature area already no place to build more roads, then you clowns create conditions to build more highways bertingkat-tingkat. Previous government did the same now you also same. Either no insight and can habis kindergarten and become a politician or greed abounds on either side of the political divide or both. Seriously its not rocket science. Contraflow la, one way loop la, Bulatan Bahagia now some abomination of an intersection and accident central. Tak habis-habis trying to reinvent the wheel and keluar roda segi empat.
Do hope that MBPJ would come out a solution for opening another road exit to okr, jamming for us in jalan carey has already been numb all these years. Proper planning and the right solution instead of coming with unsolvable solutions or ideas, its just a waste of time, thats the fact of it. It’s been years and still unsolved for this matter
mbpj just ignored my complaint..testing during ramadhan is just a crazy idea.. it’s among the unreasonable decision, after so many years/attemps the only solution is to create another exit/cross to tmn dato harun. right now having the police traffic controlling the junction is much more practical and faster.
so if malaysians motorist obey the law and wont make illegal u turn, its possible that the contraflow can work.. ahhah but malaysians love to break road laws and blame gov as evidence in this comment group
When I first heard about the redirection, my jaw dropped. How would redirecting traffic from PJ Old Town to Assunta roundabout help the traffic flow?
Long time ‘sufferers’ know the bottleneck is at Old Klang Road. It spills over to Jalan Othman and the surrounding areas. Redirecting the traffic will just move the problem further upstream.
The authorities need to address to OKR traffic problem. MBPJ need to speak their DBKL counterparts and tell them to stop approving anymore new condo projects along OKR.
they should build a direct road towards OKR.
we know cars wont reduce. so just add new road already
MBPJ is also busy not renewing the leases in those areas (99 year leasehold). In time to come, all those houses will be redeveloped into high density residences/commercial lots. So both councils are equally guilty. There will be more people, more cars and not enough roads. Then how? Beli TBM and start building tunnels ah? Siapa mau bayar? We’re paying assessment/quit rent/road tax/income tax/toll all for these morons to make more stupid decisions with no thought for the future and decrease the standard of living. Seems like it doesn’t matter who governs. All also continuing the bodoh. Ptui
so with this plan scrapped, easily said. what is the next course of action? nothing? I wish we can run the government like we run a big corporation. And fire all these useless staff.
yea. bloated public services, paying high salary to lazy useless incompetent servants, sitting in AC rooms and chitchatting. Typical public servants.