In anticipation of another wave of high traffic volume on its highways between April 29 and May 1 in conjunction with the end of the school holidays and the Labour Day holiday, PLUS has announced the continued activation of its SmartLane at various locations.
The SmartLane, which is a temporary opening of the emergency lane at selected critical stretches to increase lane capacity, has been active throughout the Raya festive period at two stretches, the first being from Port Dickson interchange to the Seremban interchange northbound, between KM260.0 and KM263.1.
The second stretch is from the Senai Utara interchange to the Kulai interchange, northbound, from KM19.0 to KM27.0. Both SmartLane locations – which were also deployed during CNY – will remain active until May 1.
Apart from these two locations, PLUS has also identified other locations for SmartLane activation, and these are at the Gua Tempurung to Gopeng northbound stretch between KM306.7 and KM297.0, Slim River to Sungkai northbound between KM367.3 and KM354.1 and Rawang to Sungai Buaya, again northbound, between KM439.9 and KM435.5.
However, PLUS COO Datuk Zakaria Ahmad Zabidi said that the SmartLane activation at these locations is subject to traffic conditions, and can only be implemented upon obtaining approval by the police.
At SmartLane locations, highway users will be allowed to temporarily enter and utilise the emergency lane at selected areas and will be redirected back to the normal lanes to continue their journey. The SmartLane locations can be identified through special SmartLane signages as well as the presence of traffic controllers stationed at the designated locations.
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La, just say activate use of emergency lane. Smart lane kononnya….
Malaysian style..
biggest problem with such thing in malaysia – many people dont know how to use. unless there are policeman on duty to guide (ir highway personnel).
secondly – mmany people will think they can use emergency lane everywhere and anywhere.
UK recently decided to abandon the smart highway scheme (emergency lane is opened to users) as it had led to some fatal accidents due to broken down cars n emergency lane being hit by another highway users.
PLUS can turn emergency lane into third lane by adding gravel as emergency stop lane on either side to save on cost. It does not need to be paved,
With all that money they made, why can’t they just widen the NS highway by another lane each way.
Smart lane does not solve the long term problem. It have been long over due to convert our highway to expressway – from 2 lanes to 4 lanes.for long term solution. At present many stretch are only 2 lanes and if 1 lane accident it will cause a jam several KM aways. Pls consider to expend to 4 lanes.
Smart lane does not solve for long term jam problems. Should change highway from the 2 lanes to 4 lanes expresssway. Many stretch have only 2 lanes and if accidents happen in 1 lane it will cause massive jam to many km.
Bila guna smart lane ni ada celaka lori ni himpit, nasib baik sempat brake. The driver is indian, so stupid. He cant even read and know what is smart lane is
What to do when car is having problem? E.g. can still move but engine heated up. There’ll be no emergency lane for the car to be parked