The West Coast Expressway (WCE) and Federal Route 5 (FR5) with a combined length of 275.8 km are expected to receive at least 300,000 vehicles daily when fully completed, which is expected to be either towards the end of next year or early 2025, Utusan Malaysia reported.
The opening of the alignments in Bandar Bukit Raja as well as in Hutan Melintang, Lekir and Changkat Chermin in Perak since May 2019 has increased traffic flow by 60% this year, according to the report.
Four new alignments will be opened this year and these will be Sections 1, 2, 6 and 11 in areas including Banting, the South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE), Assam Jawa and Taiping (South), according to WCE chief executive Lyndon Alfred Felix.
The opening of the Section 4 alignment that is the Federal Highway connection that has reached 99% completion will be opened when land acquisition around Jalan Kebun for Section 3 connecting to the Kesas highway in Shah Alam has been completed, he continued.
When these are completed, WCE will focus on the construction of the final, 29.5 km-long Section 7 alignment located in Tanjung Karang that will connect with Jalan Kuala Selangor-Teluk Intan on Federal Route 5, the CEO added.
For the upcoming Hari Raya Aidiladha that falls on June 29, Thursday, the highway is prepared to receive more than 100,000 vehicles as this volume has been achieved during the past Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations, and this in fact has surpassed last year’s figure of 60,000 vehicles, according to Felix.
Felix adds that the WCE is also well-suited for commercial vehicles, as travelling along the highway would save travel time by around 30 minutes to an hour. From a safety standpoint, the WCE is also safer as it does not pass through hilly and high-risk areas, and is instead mostly level and has fewer turns, making it suitable for heavy vehicles.
In addition, the WCE is suitable for residents in and around Shah Alam, Klang and Kuala Langat who want to head north without encountering as much traffic from Kuala Lumpur and from the Hulu Selangor, Gombak and Hulu Langat districts, he said.
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I believe this highway is 15 years late. At changkat jering ( taiping) , there could be a bottleneck as it nerges with NS highway to penang. The highway leading to juru toll has no plan to be widened. So those going north of prai and vice versa will suffer.
completion delayed by so many years thanks to incompetent main con WCE
We need the highway as the alternative to NSE, badly. Imagine enduring traffic jam on NSE every weekend and festive holidays. Will be gone soon if we have the highway ready. I hope the highway will be expanded to Muar.
I am not living in West Coast area, but do people there use NSE frequently anyway?
Going north, no. Going south…maybe, depending on how kiasu you are. going by highway is faster despite the longer distance travelled simply bcs can go faster with no interruption. if you dont want to pay for the tol then just follow federal highway south though this will take longer to reach kl.
Scrap all vehicles above 20yrs n save lots of money on building new highways
Won’t those who scrap their old cars will in turn buy new cars & the vehicle population will still be high?
DAP.Junkie folliwing Sg blindly …Junkie IQ Zero
Building highways is the best solution , each household has min 3 cards this days and this won’t stop even until Y3000
And so now the PR team has announced their target market: commercial vehicles. I would not take this highway knowing the stuff our lorry drivers do while driving… why would anyone want to be on a highway “well-suited for commercial vehicles”.
Suggest to make it official to have all heavy vehicles to use this highway instead since it’s more well suited.
I don’t think I need to elaborate on the cause of accidents, traffic jams and hoggers on the NSE now.
not so convenience highway as u need to exit and go to federal route then enter back the highway..
agree its an idiot location. for people staying within FT/KL they need to travel 1 hour just to reach the entrance of this highway
Already mentioned that the highway is suitable for those staying in Shah Alam area but no… you have to talk about coming from KL. If you want to travel from Nilai to Seremban, are you going to drive up to Cheras and go via Kajang? I wonder who’s the bigger idiot… the one who complained about using Federal hw to access, or the one who agreed to it. I suggest that you 2 use Karak hw to go Taiping instead. Trust me, it’s nearer than using NSE!
YAY… bole pi Teluk Intan direct d
NSE have been long overdue to upgrade to highway with minimum 4 lanes all the way from north to south. Many lanes is still with 2 lanes only. Just a simple accident or public holiday will cause a huge jam. Waste of time and money when jam.
What about LPT 3 and the final connection to east coast of peninsular Malaysia? Every time there is a holiday there will be 1.5-2.0 million vehicles. I am hoping the Madani Govt fulfills its promises.
East coast states anak tiri federal
all major road, highway and railroad should be upgraded not built a skyscraper for no reason.