Can anybody post pictures of malaysian highways eg PLUS ,LPT and others

Welcome to the forums Acela!


I'll post once I got my Internet line in my office fix...... ;) ....I have some images of highways that I took early this year :)

North-South Expressway toll rate to go up by 10%
BY K. SAITHURUKA

KUALA LUMPUR: The toll rate on the North-South Expressway (NSE) will be increased by 10% on Jan 1, announced Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

He said this was in accordance with the 1999 agreement between the expressway's concessionaire Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan (PLUS) and the Treasury.

The renegotiated agreement allowed PLUS to raise the toll rate by 10% every three years instead of 26% every three to five years under the original agreement.

“I don’t think the Government can subsidise the price any more. I have to be very frank about it. People are only paying 12.04 sen per kilometre now because the agreement was changed,” he added, saying PLUS would announce the new rates before Jan 1.

Samy Vellu was speaking to reporters after launching a national workshop on Rethinking MIC for 88 division leaders and secretaries here yesterday.

PLUS was commissioned to build the 848km NSE in 1989 and started operations in 1994. It was originally offered a 30-year concession from 1988 that authorised an annual toll rate increase. But in 1999 the concession period was extended to 42 years until 2030 in return for the agreement by PLUS to review the toll rate only once every three years.

Samy Vellu also said that he had told Rangkaian Segar Sdn Bhd, which operates the Touch 'n Go system, to find ways to reduce the price of the SmartTag to RM100.

“The initial price of SmartTag was RM220 and they reduced it to RM180. But I told them that it was still expensive and not everyone could afford to own one.

“If the cost is lowered, it would reduce queuing time at toll plazas and ease traffic congestion,” he said, adding that more lanes could also be opened for SmartTag users.

On the seminar, Samy Vellu reminded the delegates that those who failed to fulfil their duties would not remain.

“Ego and pride are not the prerequisites for effective leaders.

“Remember my words, 'Change Before You Are Changed',” he told the delegates.

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all secondlink expressway

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PENANG HIGHWAYS
1) North - South Highway (Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan, PLUS)
2) Penang Bridge
3) Butterworth - Kulim Expressway (BKE)
4) Jelutong Expressway (JE)
5) Bayan Lepas Coastal Highway
6) Bayan Baru Elevated Highway
7) Penang Outer Ring Road (PORR)
8) Butterworth Outer Ring Road (BORR)
9) Penang 2nd Link

1 - Completed
2 - Completed
3 - Completed
4 - Phase 1 completed, Phase 2 & Phase 3 proposed
5 - Completed
6 - Phase 1 completed, Phase 2 under construction
7 - Phase 1 & Phase 2 proposed
8 - Phase 1 completed, Phase 2, Phase 3 & Phase 4 under construction
9 - Proposed

PENANG BRIDGE
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BAYAN LEPAS COASTAL HIGHWAY
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BAYAN BARU ELEVATED HIGHWAY
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Overhead Bridge Restaurants | Rest and Service Areas | Lay by | Vista Points | Toll Plazas | Others
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Overhead Bridge Restaurants


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The Overhead Bridge Restaurants are one stop rest areas that provide a variety of facilities for users. Straddling the Expressway, this one stop convenient centre is the first of its kind in the country, enabling users to enjoy the facilities offered at each bound of the highway. OBRs also give the users a chance to enjoy their meals at one of the air-conditioned restaurants as they observe the traffic below.

Located at two major sites: Sg. Buloh and Ayer Keroh, these OBRS namely the Sungai Buloh OBR and the Ayer Keroh OBR are the preferred rest stop areas for many users of the NSE. The number of travellers has increased dramatically over the years due to the excellent facilities and variety of restaurants and eateries provided there.

amenities and facilities
Surau/Stalls/Wakafs/ATM/Public phones

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Penchala
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NS Highway? ;)

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NS Highway? ;)

looks like Karak highway

In which state? :?

Karak Highway link KL and Pahang ( east coast of Peninsula ), which pass through Titiwangsa Ranges.

You use that to get to Genting? :?

yep, it is the East-West highway now, used to be known as Karak highway...turnoff to Genting about 30min from your pic....fantastic road! Great scenery!

Agreed! :okay:

The viaducts can be quite amazing!

Leighton expects at least $180m profit
Feb 16 13:07
AAP


Construction group Leighton Holdings today said it expected a full-year profit of at least $180 million after a solid rise in first-half earnings.

Leighton posted a net profit of $90.9 million for the six months to December 31, 2004, up 20 per cent on the previous first half.

The company added that its longer-term outlook remained good because of record levels of work, an extended construction market upturn and a strong balance sheet.

The value of its work in hand was $15.02 billion at end December, up from $13 billion at the end of 2003.

Its order book was boosted by the award of the $2.5 billion Mitcham-Frankston project in Melbourne.

"The group is expected to maintain a high level of work in hand," it said. "This workload should produce stronger revenues for the second half and full-year revenue of about $7 billion.

"The directors are confident of reporting another solid operating profit in the second half and a full-year profit result of at least $180 million."

Leighton declared an interim dividend of 20¢, franked to 50 per cent, up from 18¢ at the same time a year ago.

In the first-half, revenue totalled $3.58 billion, up 35.7 per cent. Principal revenue sources were engineering and infrastructure of $1.3 billion, mining and resources $881 million, building and property development $852 million and operations and maintenance of $476 million.

Leighton said its balance sheet remained strong, with total assets of $2.57 billion.

"The outlook in the longer-term for the group is very strong, driven by a record level of work, an extended construction market rally and a powerful balance sheet," chief executive Wal King said.

He said the domestic construction market was in the midst of a transport infrastructure-led upswing. "A number of large projects now commencing should provide a substantial base of activity over the next few years," Mr King said.

"In addition, the federal government's AusLink land transport plan is likely to provide a boost to road and rail spending across the country."

The outlook for the building and property market also remained positive, underpinned by the strength of the economy.

Mr King said the commercial and industrial sectors were expected to remain strong until at least 2007 with the hotel, retail, factories and other business sectors providing opportunities.

"Demand for coal is likely to remain buoyant, supporting Australian exports and benefiting Thiess, which has a strong position in this market," he said.

"A number of large minerals and energy projects are currently under development or in planning, which augurs well for construction and mining opportunities."

Leighton said it was also looking to Asia, which was expected to maintain "solid" growth in the next few years driven by China. Mr King said Indonesia was pursuing an ambitious infrastructure development plan, although funding remained the critical issue.

"The group will continue to monitor those infrastructure opportunities closely, as well as other resources related projects," he said.

The company's activity in Hong Kong would continue to be driven by government investment in transport infrastructure, while work on the $310 million Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya highway in Malaysia would resume in the near future.

"The directors remain confident that the group's momentum will drive profit growth and returns to shareholders for the next few years," said Mr King.

Malaysia Map for Highways, Roads and Bridges


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North-South Expressway, Malaysia (http://www.wcte.com.my/projects-civil.htm)

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Improvement of Existing Subang Jaya Interchange, Malaysia

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Simpang Pulai - Gua Musang - Kuala Berang Highway, (Package 3/1B) Malaysia


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LEBUHRAYA LINGKARAN LUAR BUTTERWORTH


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Butterworth Outer Ring Road Project


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Klang valley (incld. Kuala Lumpur)

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Cyberjaya

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LEBUHRAYA PANTAI TIMUR - LPT

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Jajaran Lebuhraya di Lancang

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Jajaran Lebuhraya di Temerloh

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Jambatan Sungai Pahang di Temerloh

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Plaza Tol Kuantan

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PLUS

PLUS TV Commercial (http://www.plus.com.my/plus%20ad/plus%20ad1.wmv)

Peninsular Malaysia now has an excellent road system, but the urban areas are a big problem - traffic jam!!!

PLUS

PLUS TV Commercial 2 (http://www.plus.com.my/plus%20ad/plus%20ad2.wmv)

ITIS (http://www.itis.com.my/index.jsp)

Watch the ITIS launch video here (http://www.itis.com.my/video/atis_high_150k.wmv)

Progress Photo at TMC - 29 October 2004

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Progress Photo of VMS - 2 November 2004

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wah!! promote road accidents ar??

Silk

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what made me interested in malaysian highways is that they tend to put roadlights/poles over the entire length of the highways. when it comes to night time it's like the entire klang valley look pretty much orange yellowish because there are just too many roadlights........

i hope you guys can explain to me the purpose of putting too many roadlights on highways.....

what made me interested in malaysian highways is that they tend to put roadlights/poles over the entire length of the highways. when it comes to night time it's like the entire klang valley look pretty much orange yellowish because there are just too many roadlights........

i hope you guys can explain to me the purpose of putting too many roadlights on highways.....

A strange question... However, it’s obviously to improve night visibility, I guess. Actually, the lights have never struck me as being "too many".

what made me interested in malaysian highways is that they tend to put roadlights/poles over the entire length of the highways. when it comes to night time it's like the entire klang valley look pretty much orange yellowish because there are just too many roadlights........

i hope you guys can explain to me the purpose of putting too many roadlights on highways.....

hmm? that's not quite true...you're perhaps refering to the intracity highways, of which good lighting is a necesscity for safety purposes. BUt the intercity highways are not all lighted, they only get lighted up near urban areas and toll interchanges....

hmm....yeah you right, my judgment was wrong........

hmm....yeah you right, my judgment was wrong........

Charge toll cheats instead, say groups


KUALA LUMPUR: Toll cheats should be handed to police and charged in court instead of being fined by Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan (PLUS).

This is the opinion of various groups on the Government's announcement that it would amend the law to give PLUS the legal power to fine motorists who cheated on toll payment.

The groups felt that errant motorists who cheat PLUS were breaking the law and thus it should be a police matter.

Fomca adviser Prof Datuk Hamdan Adnan said PLUS should report the errant motorists to the police.

“If someone shoplifts, the store cannot fine them, it has to hand them over to the police for action,” he said.

The issue came to light in January when a lorry driver was fined for taking too long to travel on the North-South Expressway, and many groups protested against PLUS' action as illegal.

Investigations by PLUS on Jan 19 detected 709 errant cases out of 221,275 vehicles, while 311 cases were detected out of the 158,343 road users the following day.

Logistics companies said PLUS should look into the root of the problem and clean up its backyard as they claimed the syndicate that operated to allow lorry drivers to cheat the system was an inside job.

Pan Malaysia Lorry Owners Association president Er Sui See said the move to allow PLUS to impose fines would make the company “the complainant, the prosecutor and the judge.”

Er said many lorry companies had received letters from PLUS alleging that their drivers did not pay toll and questioned how this could happen in the first place.

“How can motorists be allowed to exit without paying unless there is hanky-panky by the toll collectors,” he said.

Association of Malaysian Hauliers president Shalimin Shaffie said while the association welcomed the move to curb fraud by motorists, the fine was not the way.

He said while PLUS claimed cheating, lorry drivers were able to produce receipts as proof.

He believes the fraud is an inside job and “lorry drivers were given the chance to do it.”

“We don't want it to be a precedent for other people such as highway concessionaires or utility companies to impose fines,” he said and urged PLUS to listen to the views of the industry players and find alternatives such as using a foolproof system.

Some very nostalgic pics up there...

Pos Selim – Kg Raja Highway (PS)

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Shah Alam Expressway

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In March 2002, I was in a bus on NS highway....

At numerous locations, they're burning vegetation on the slopes, some fires literally just beside the highway..... :eek:

And I can smell the smoke from the air con! :rant:

EXIST POINTS… Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu visits exist site of Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong (LDP) in Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. LDP is one of the newly completed six interchanges costing between RM35 and RM65 million. The interchanges are Kelana Jaya, Puchong Jaya, Taman Industri Puchong elevated U-turn, I0I, PJS7-PJS9 flyover in bandar Sunway and Kampung Baharu Puchong. Five of the six interchanges are completed and opened to traffic.Pix: Azman Firdaus




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South Highway (http://artfiz.fotopages.com/?entry=351999&back=http://artfiz.fotopages.com/?page=0)

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Elevated road to open in July

The RM215mil Bayan Baru elevated highway will be open to traffic by middle of July.

The 2.37km highway would help reduce traffic congestion by 50% along Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, state Works, Public Amenities and Transport Com-mittee chairman Datuk Koay Kar Huah said at a press con-ference yesterday.

He said the project was now 98% completed.

Work is on schedule with only about 250m of the elevated highway left to be constructed, he added.

Phase I of the project covering 1.7km from the Pesta site to the Bayan Baru roundabout was open to traffic last No-vember.

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DUE FOR COMPLETION:Zaini(right)explaining the progress of the highway's construction to Koay(third right)and Pantai Jerejak assemblyman Wong Mun Hoe(second right).

Koay said construction work on Phase II, involving another 675m from the roundabout to the Komag factory in Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah was expected to be ready by end of June.

“Following this, the project's turnkey contractor Seri Meraga Construction Sdn Bhd would require a few weeks for commissioning and to carry out safety checks before the highway is open to traffic in mid-July,” he said.

Koay said work involving utilities, installation and landscaping were being carried out along the stretch.

He urged motorists to be patient and to bear with the works, especially at the Jalan Kampung Jawa–Jalan Mahsuri junction.

“The segment casting plant in Gurun ran into a glitch recently,” he said.

Some parts for the straddle carrier, the machine used to lift the segments, will be brought in from Italy in the next two weeks, he said.

Seri Meraga senior project manager Zaini Ramly @ Ali said his workers were working round the clock to complete the project.

He said the project, which started in January 2001, was originally scheduled for completion in August 2003.

It was re-scheduled to accommodate the 675m extension of the highway from the roundabout to the Komag factory.

The extension work was due to be completed last May but the project ran into technical problems due to the change in the piling system.

The highway is part of Penang’s road improvement programme which includes the Penang Outer Ring Road (PORR), proposed second link and the Jelutong Expressway.

Govt Officially Agrees To Re-Route 2nd Phase Of East-Coast Highway
June 06, 2005 21:42 PM



KUALA TERENGGANU, June 6 (Bernama) -- The Federal Government has officially agreed to re-route the second phase of the East-Coast Highway, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Monday.

He said the Cabinet, at its meeting last Wednesday, agreed to accede to a request from the Terengganu Government, and added that the move to re-route the highway would involve an additional 16-km stretch between Cheneh and Bukit Besi.

The highway would now stretch for 190 km instead of 174 km as previously planned, he added.

He said the decision to re-route the highway would also incur the government an additional cost of RM160 million.

Samy Vellu spoke to reporters at a press conference after the opening of the Terengganu Construction Showcase 2005 by Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh at the Terengganu Trade Centre here.

The route for phase two of the East Coast Highway had been initially planned to start at Jabor and end at Kampung Gemuruh, going through Cheneh, Air Putih, Padang Kubu, Al-Muktafi Billah Shah (AMBS), Bukit Besi, Ajil and Bukit Payong.

Samy Vellu said efforts would be made to expedite survey works and design on the new route.

He said the tender for the project between Cheneh and Bukit Besi, involving eight packages, would be called at the end of the year and the project was scheduled for completion in 2008.

Samy Vellu said the change in the route of the highway would negate the building of interchanges at Air Putih, Padang Kubu and AMBS, as well as a shortcut between Paka and Kertih.

"The new route will only involve construction of interchanges at Cukai, Kijal, Kertih, Paka and Dungun," he said.

He said the new route would be along the coastal areas and believed that it would be a boost to the state's tourism industry.

-- BERNAMA

I think the prettiest highway at night is the stretch of PLUS highway from Ipoh to Penang... part of the road have reflectives of red, blue, orange and white.

Malaysian expressway system is extensive and amazing. How can Malaysia built this system within only one decade. Are they privately funded or publicly?

ITIS (Integrated Transport Information System) launched

>>> ITIS (http://www.itis.com.my/itis/prog_photo1.jsp)

Really? Are the ITIS electronic information displays on the roads in KL working now?

I have seen some of the ITIS electronic info display in operation. Eg. along Jln Mahameru. Not too sure whether all are in operation in other areas.

Great news! Yay ITIS!

Malaysian expressway system is extensive and amazing. How can Malaysia built this system within only one decade. Are they privately funded or publicly?

Most of the highways in the country are under private concessions so ordinary people have to pay to use..it will take decades before they become free for public use. The Entire length of penisula is connected by PLUS (North South expressway).. the main tolled higways..old federal highways are free of charge.

The old and winding East coast highway in the north of peninsular connecting Grik in the west and Jeli in the east, several thousands feets high, cutting through Titiwangsa mountain range and jungles, manmade lake, which is located near the Thai border is an engineering masterpeice. It's government funded so it's no tolled, took decades to complete, some of its workers were ambushed by communist terrorists in early 80's when it's still under construction. Great scenery and if you love driving you SHOULD use this highway at least once in your lifetime..no regret.. it is one of the most beautiful highway in the world I believe...

The new east coast espressway is under constrcution and first half of its lenght is already completed..got same characteristic with modern highwasys like PLUS which are traight and wide could reduce your journey time.

Klang valley(Kl's metro) has the most intensive network of highways in the country...it's quite stunning actually.

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Picture shows Simpang Pulai-Kuala Berang east west highway.The Grik-Jeli east west highway is way to the north :eek: ...wowow I thought there's only a route to Gua Musang which os from KL...that means we already have 3 east west highway including the new one..Ithink this one is no less a stunner cos it's going trh Titiwangsa in central peninsular. I'll try digging out pics again if I have time.


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good, can i get more info oon the east west expressways? thanks
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Picture shows Simpang Pulai-Kuala Berang east west highway.The Grik-Jeli east west highway is way to the north :eek: ...wowow I thought there's only a route to Gua Musang which os from KL...that means we already have 3 east west highway including the new one..Ithink this one is no less a stunner cos it's going trh Titiwangsa in central peninsular. I'll try digging out pics again if I have time.


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Works go on to connect 'missing links'
Monday December 12, 2005
By BAVANI M
Photos by CHUA KOK HWA



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A view of the highway from a control tower in Pantai Dalam. New Pantai
Expressway Sdn Bhd (NPE), is a step closer to providing motorists with a
smoother drive.



WHILE construction works on the Jengka and Tujuan Inter-changes in Subang Jaya are underway, the projects' concessionaire, New Pantai Expressway Sdn Bhd (NPE), is a step closer to providing residents in the area a smoother drive.

After all, the area has been tagged a motorist’s nightmare for years. The Bandar Sunway and Subang Jaya stretch, for instance, is known for its traffic congestion.

The additional works, which began two years ago, are expected to be completed in April.

“The ongoing works are part of the final stage in an overall traffic im-provement scheme designed to bring about an end to congestion in Subang Jaya and USJ,” said Subang Jaya assemblyman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng.

He said the recent opening of the Kewajipan Ramp was proof that what was deemed impossible could be made possible.

“Since its opening, traffic congestion along Jalan Kewajipan, particularly in front of the Summit shopping complex, has eased considerably,” he added.

In fact ever since the Subang Jaya-KL stretch and vice versa stretches were opened, many considered these as a boon to the community, said Lee.

“I have no qualms about paying toll as the highway is an alternative route to the Federal Highway and people have a choice,” said Stanley Lim, a USJ resident.

“It takes me about 15 minutes to get to work and a little longer to get home, but it’s worth it as I feel a whole lot happier and the quality of my life has improved,” he said.

NPE senior manager Simon Thiang said more benefits were in store for motorists as the key to the city’s traffic problem was connectivity.

“The highway is not just about providing traffic free roads, but providing connectivity to different areas in the city,'' he said. “It is like connecting the missing links of our local highway system in the Klang Valley.”

According to Thiang several upgrades and new interchanges were being constructed at various parts of NPE.

Apart from the Jengka, Tujuan interchanges, and the Kewajipan Ramp, another project at Jalan Templer in Petaling Jaya, called the Gasing Ramp, is also underway.

Motorists who use the Jalan Othman roundabout during peak hours may not appreciate the work NPE is doing now, but once this has been completed it will alleviate traffic congestion considerably.

“The ramp will enable traffic coming in from Jalan Kelang Lama to Jalan Templer to bypass the Jalan Templer roundabout to get into Jalan Gasing,'' said Thiang.

“The ramp will ease congestion, not only at the roundabout, but in the surrounding areas too,” he added.

Another project in the pipeline is the Kuchai Ramp project, which will be built at the end of Jalan Kuchai Lama.

“These separate upgrades, costing RM140mil, will ease congestion in all areas and provide motorists with a jam-free and, more importantly, a stress-free drive,” said Thiang.

The upgrades will not result in additional toll for the motorists. “In fact, they will only enjoy faster travel time, have better connectivity and additional quality time,” said Thiang.

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Overhead Bridge Restaurants on PLUS expressway (http://www.plus.com.my/pebberhad/index2.asp) (Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan)


Overhead Bridge Restaurants


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The Overhead Bridge Restaurants are one stop rest areas that provide a
variety of facilities for users. Straddling the Expressway, this one stop
convenient centre is the first of its kind in the country, enabling users to
enjoy the facilities offered at each bound of the highway. OBRs also give the
users a chance to enjoy their meals at one of the air-conditioned
restaurants as they observe the traffic below.

Located at two major sites: Sg. Buloh and Ayer Keroh, these OBRS namely
the Sungai Buloh OBR and the Ayer Keroh OBR are the preferred rest stop
areas for many users of the NSE. The number of travellers has increased
dramatically over the years due to the excellent facilities and variety of
restaurants and eateries provided there.

Surau/Stalls/Wakafs/ATM/Public phones



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i think its a section of LDP (Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong) near Sunway?

i think its a section of LDP (Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong) near Sunway?

yep yep, it's a section of LDP near Subang Jaya

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aaaaaaaaaaa... lawa nya

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this is my favourite part of NPE...counting the pillars!! :D
this highway really amazed me..

Litrak to spend RM30m-35m on road upgrade
By Kevin Tan, 25 Jan 2006 4:13 PM


Lingkaran Trans Kota Holdings Bhd (Litrak) is allocating between RM30 million to RM35 million this year to upgrade roads and other related-facilities, its chief executive officer Sazally Saidi said.

Of that, more than RM20 million would be used to resurface the Damansara-Puchong Highway (LDP), he told reporters after Litrak’s EGM in Shah Alam on Jan 25.

He said the company was spending a considerable amount for the LDP upgrade works this year considering it only spent about RM10 million for such works in the past.

Sazally said Litrak planned to start the upgrade works by the first quarter of the year. Litrak is still identifying the areas for upgrading and staggering them for work in stages.

Besides LDP, Litrak also holds a 33-year concession for the 26.5 kilometre-long Sprint Highway, which consists of Kerinchi, Penchala and Damansara links.

Litrak chief operating officer Richard Lim Kim Ong said while the Sprint highway contributed a positive cashflow, the returns had yet to match the investment.

He was however confident of Sprint’s contribution to the company over the long run. “Overall, the project will give us a positive return in the concession period,” he said.

Minetech lands RM18m road-widening contract
25 Jan 2006 6:50 PM


Minetech Resources Bhd has been awarded an RM18 million contract for part of the third-lane widening works between Rawang and Tanjung Malim on the North-South Expressway.

In a statement on Jan 25, it said its unit, Angkasa Tegas Sdn Bhd, has been awarded the project, which is due to be completed in 22 months.

“Our scope of work for this project involves site clearance and fencing, earthworks, drainage and other related civil engineering works,” said its executive chairman K S Chin.

“We expect the project to contribute positively to the group’s revenue in year 2006,” he added.

Minetech said the group has been active in the small- to mid-sized civil engineering and construction works, with its current order book valued at RM40 million.

“The civil engineering and construction landscape in Malaysia has undergone some interesting changes in the last couple of years, from one that was mega project-centric to one that is now concentrated in small- to mid-sized projects.

“This benefited mid-sized players like Minetech as we bank on one of our core competencies and experience in civil engineering. We are confident of securing between 20% and 25% of the projects we have tendered so far,” he said.

Getting to KL in no time at all
Thursday January 26, 2006
By SALINA KHALID

What? New Damansara Perdana interchange
Who? MK Land Holdings Berhad executive director and Works Minister
Why? To provide better access to residents



DAMANSARA Perdana residents can now get to Kuala Lumpur faster with the opening of a new interchange in their township.

The RM24mil project by MK Land Holdings Bhd connects Damansara Perdana to Sprint Highway (Kerinchi Link).




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The new interchange makes travelling
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“Previously, residents have to go through a tunnel under the LDP and use an old road towards Sungai Penchala before getting onto the highway,” MK Land Holdings executive director Datuk P. Kasi.

“Although the highway is visible from Damansara Perdana, it takes about 10 to 15 minutes to get onto it. The situation is worse during peak hours,'' he added.

With the new interchange, Kasi said, residents of Damansara Perdana could not only get to Kuala Lumpur faster, but also to Mont Kiara and its surrounding vicinity.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu opened the interchange on Tuesday. Present at the event were MK Land Holdings executive chairman Tan Sri Mustapha Kamal Abu Bakar and Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) chairman Datuk Ali Bahari.

Kasi said MK Land Holdings had also built a slip road that connected LDP from southern Petaling Jaya to Damansara Perdana. It also connects Damansara Perdana to Kepong.

“We are also upgrading the traffic dispersal at the exit and entrance of the township (at the tunnel under the LDP),” he said.

“We have managed to reduce the four-phase traffic light system to a three-phase one, which means less waiting period for the motorists.”

Kasi said, MK Land Holdings was in the process of improving Damansara Perdana's existing infrastructure.

“For instance, we are proposing for a new road that can be used to access Damansara Perdana from LDP via the second tunnel under the LDP,” he said. The tunnel is currently not in use.

Samy Velly commended MK Land Holdings for easing residents' travels around the township. He said other developers should do the same.

“Some build thousand of houses, but do not provide proper exits or interchanges,” he said.

how many kilometers of expresways has been built in Malaysia.

^^ i m not so sure of the exact figure but for already completed expressways in Peninsular Malaysia (not including Bornean part of Malaysia) appox 1,300Km, u can access info about the different expressways in Peninsular Malaysia from http://www.llmnet.gov.my/English/main.asp

Sorry to bother.What is the standard design for Malaysian Highways e.g the lane width , vertical clearance etc. Than you.

Sorry to bother.What is the standard design for Malaysian Highways e.g the lane width , vertical clearance etc. Than you.


The standard lane width for highways in Malaysia is 3.6m. Vertical clearance is approximately 5m......should be more than 5 metres ;)

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i think its a section of LDP (Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong) near Sunway?


yep yep, it's a section of LDP near Subang Jaya


Actually you're both correct....it is near Sunway and SJ. Sunway is actually nearer ;)

However that intersection is called the Motorola Interchange thanks to the huge ex-Motorola factory beside it. :yes:

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great find, nazrey! the view from Karak highway looks beautiful

All hail our highways!

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wow can see the very rarely seen JAbatan Audit Negara building!!!

Malaysian highways are excellent. Would one consider it to be world class?

Truly world class!

Plus To Complete Third-lane Upgrading Works At NSE By 2007
16-06-2006


PUTRAJAYA, June 16 (Bernanma) -- Plus Expressways Bhd (http://www.plus.com.my/) expects to complete the upgrading works of its North-South Expressway (NSE) at the Seremban-Senawang stretch in the south and the Sungai Buloh-Tanjung Malim stretch in the north from two to three lanes by December next year.

Its assistant general manager, corporate communications, Khalilah Mohd Talha, said the third-lane widening construction at the stretches will then continue up to Ayer Keroh in the southern side and Tapah in the northern side.

Speaking at a business journalism workshop participated by about 60 journalists and United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd staff here today, she said the upgrading works on the affected stretches were currently proceeding smoothly.

Khalilah said Plus did not have plans to extend the third-lane upgrading works over the 773-kilometre expressway at the moment.

"Plus feels that there is no need for that (extension upgrading works throughout the NSE) yet," she said.

Nevertheless, she added, Plus has plans to upgrade its services and facilities on and around the expressway under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.

Khalilah said Plus identified the road stretches to be upgraded based on the traffic volume as well as the capacity of user vehicles.

"From our observation, the stretches from Rawang to Tapah are very important because of the congestion during festive seasons and peak hours," she said.

On another development, Khalilah said under the concessionaire agreement with the government, Plus has the right to apply for another toll review by January 2008.

"We have to keep the government informed (on the toll review)," she said, adding that the review was scheduled once every three years.

According to Khalilah, the next toll hike proposal by Plus will be based on the traffic volume updates.

She also said that under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, Plus will be committed to improve safety at its highways, reduce travelling time and improve the road transportation system.

Through the NSE, Plus managed to promote other privately-funded initiatives in improving the highways' surroundings, providing other additions to the network and boosting the development of new townships and industrial areas, she added.

this is my favourite part of NPE...counting the pillars!!
as long as u dont 'hit' one of them ;)

ini yg kat kg medan tu ker? tepi fed hi-way?

Great pics Nazrey .. those pictures should be reposted to southeast asian highway thread in infrastructure and mobility forum

Wi-Fi access at R&R spots on highway

05 July, 2006

TAPAH: If you are travelling along the North-South Expressway and need access to the Internet, look no further than the rest and recreation (R&Rs) areas at the Sungai Buloh overhead bridge restaurant, Tapah, Sungai Perak and Gunung Semanggol. These are the hotspots for wireless connection for Internet access from laptops, personal digital assistants and mobile phones.

The connection was made available yesterday by PLUS Expressway Berhad, which had invested RM600,000 to equip the four R&Rs with the facility.

PLUS chairman Tan Sri Mohd Sheriff Mohd Kassim said the wireless connection would be made available at the remaining 16 R&Rs before the end of the year, adding that PLUS would be investing another RM2.4 million for the venture.

"Internet access through wireless connection will soon be available at all the R&Rs, from Johor right up to Kedah.wow :okay:

"And it is free access, 24 hours daily. Everyone can use it," he said after the launch of the wireless connection at the R&R here yesterday by Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali.

Mohd Sheriff said the wireless connection was an additional facility PLUS would be providing by next year at all its R&Rs besides the usual amenities of a food court, restroom complex, surau and others.

The wireless connection provided by PLUS uses the Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) technology with 2.4 GHz, which is Internet connectivity without the hassle of wires.

Access to the Wi-Fi network is usually available in all laptops, mobile phones and PDAs which are Wi-Fi enabled.

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Meanwhile, Tajol Rosli said more than 80 per cent of areas in Perak would have Internet access via the wireless broadband connection before the end of next year.

Also present at the launch were Perak Multimedia and Human Resources Committee chairman Datuk Dr Zambry Kadir, PLUS Expressway managing director Datuk Idrose Mohamed and TM Net Sdn Bhd chief operating officer Michael Lai.

^^ Now our highways are friendlier to Internet users compared to our airports! :dizzy: :D

Seriously.......getting a free Internet terminal at KLIA is like getting a seat in a Chinese restaurant during Sunday dinner hours. :D

Projects to be completed before Raya
Friday September 15, 2006
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SINTOK: The new Pendang Interchange and the Senawang-Seremban third lane will be opened to motorists before the coming Hari Raya in October.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan (PLUS) gave the assurance yesterday.

He said the ministry had urged PLUS to complete the projects before Oct 24.

“We want motorists to be safe and comfortable when driving home to celebrate,” he told newsmen after opening the Public Works Department Games 2006 here yesterday.

Samy Vellu said the Rawang-Tanjung Malim and the Seremban-Ayer Keroh third lane projects on the North-South Expressway would be completed by the end of next year.

^^ Now our highways are friendlier to Internet users compared to our airports! :dizzy: :D

Seriously.......getting a free Internet terminal at KLIA is like getting a seat in a Chinese restaurant during Sunday dinner hours. :D


Well.... not really..

12-09-2006: MAHB’s domestic airports to be WiFi enabled by end-07
By Tamimi Omar


Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) aims to have all its domestic airports WiFi-enabled by end-2007 for the benefit of all its users, said its managing director Datuk Seri Bashir Ahmad.

“We will start with our international airports first, then on to other airports including the LCCT (low cost carrier terminal),” he told reporters after the launch of KL International Airport (KLIA) as a “hotspot airport” on Sept 12.

MAHB has five international airports at KLIA, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Langkawi and Penang.

Bashir said the value-added services were timely given the expected increase in the inflow of tourists for Visit Malaysia Year 2007.

The WiFi service allows MAHB’s community and passengers free and easy Internet access. The service is available at the satellite buildings, contact pier, as well as arrival and departure halls.

The expanded Internet access service was made possible with the recent upgrade of the backbone network at KLIA by MAHB. It is learnt that the KLIA upgrade cost MAHB RM25 million.

Bashir said annualised, passenger arrivals this year rose between 4% and 5% in the first half of the year from 23 million passengers for the whole of 2005.

He said the growth for the first half of this year was almost the same as last year. He expected growth in the second half of the year to be slightly better.

On MAHB’s bid to operate airports in the Middle East, Bashir said: “We expect to know something before year-end.”

IJM named main contractor for Kajang-Seremban highway
By Anna Maria Samsudin
November 9 2006
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To fund the project, IJM Corp, together with its partners, plans to raise RM750 million local currency bonds within the next three months

IJM Corp Bhd had been appointed as the main contractor to reactivate works on the RM840 million Kajang-Seremban Highway.

The highway concession is now held by Lebuhraya Kajang- Seremban Sdn Bhd (LEKAS), of which IJM holds a 50 per cent stake in the company and the rest held by joint-venture partners Kaseh Lebuh Raya Sdn Bhd, Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Ja'afar and Bumiputera institutions.

The concession was initially given to Kaseh in 1997, but was later put on hold due to difficulties in obtaining funding as a result of the Asian financial crisis.

To fund the project, IJM managing director Datuk Krishnan Tan said the group, together with its partners, plans to raise RM750 million local currency bonds within the next three months.

He said the company has been talking to several investment banks to help with the fund-raising exercise.

"There would not be a problem raising the debt because IJM has a decent name and the project has got a decent rating," he told reporters after the signing ceremony for the privatisation of the Kajang-Seremban Highway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

The ceremony was witnessed by Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

LEKAS, incorporated on June 22 last year, was intended to be a special purpose vehicle to undertake the concession.

With a concession period of 32.5 years, the project, comprising a 48km three-lane dual carriage highway between Kajang and Seremban, is scheduled to be completed within 33 months.

The Kajang-Seremban Highway contract will be IJM's first road concession project in Malaysia.

The group has several road concessions abroad, namely in India, China and Argentina.

IJM expects the Kajang-Seremban concession to start contributing positively to the group's earnings in 2014.

Meanwhile, on IJM's bid to take over rival Road Builders (M) Holdings Bhd (RBH) for RM1.56 billion, Tan said RBH is now in the process of making the recommendation to its shareholders.

"We are now waiting to get the approvals from RBH shareholders as well as the regulators," Tan said.

Tan said IJM's offer for RBH was final. "I think we have made a good offer. I don't think we will be increasing the offer price," he said.

Great news. This long awaited project is able to pull off the ailing SILK highway and reduces the traffic load on Seremban highway.

Muar-Segamat road to be upgraded
12 Nov 2006
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MUAR: The Johor government will be applying to the Federal government for an allocation to widen the Muar-Segamat road from two to four lanes under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP).

Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said he was surprised that the 9MP did not include plans for the construction of the road.

He said the 90km road should be widened and straightened for safe driving to the northern districts.

"This is important due to the increasing traffic flow in tandem with the rapid development in north Johor," Ghani said at the Umno Pagoh division’s Hari Raya open house in Pagoh on Friday night.

He said the proposal to upgrade the road was mooted by the state government more than l0 years ago.

On the proposed construction of a bullet train between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Baru, he said it would bypass major towns in Johor and this would defeat its purpose.

Ghani said the bullet train project would complement the Iskandar Development Region if such service could be extended to towns.

216km link awaiting approval
By Brenda Lim NST

19 November, 2006

SUNGAI SIPUT: The Works Ministry will ask the Cabinet this Wednesday for the green light to build the West Coast Highway, a 216km link from Taiping to Banting and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. The project, shelved due to lack of financing, will take three years to complete, said Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

The concessionaire for the project has already been "there for a long time" and will sign the contract within two months of the Cabinet’s approval, he said.

"The Economic Planning Unit has already approved it, but the working papers have yet to be sent to the Cabinet," he said after launching a gotong-royong hosted by the Kuala Kangsar municipal council and the state health department. He declined to reveal the cost of the project.

He said it will ease congestion along the North-South Expressway, which is used by up to 1.2 million vehicles a day on weekends.

The highway will stretch 127km in Perak, from the south-bound Changkat Jering toll exit of the North-South Expressway to a federal road near the Sungai Bernam bridge.

The remaining 89.3km in Selangor will be an existing state road passing through Tanjung Karang and Batang Berjuntai (south-bound), linked to a state road passing through Banting and KLIA.

It is learnt that it will most likely be a toll road as it will be built by private contractors.

The West Coast Highway will be the third longest highway in the country, after the North-South Expressway (966km) and East Coast Highway (330km).

216km link awaiting approval
By Brenda Lim NST

19 November, 2006

SUNGAI SIPUT: The Works Ministry will ask the Cabinet this Wednesday for the green light to build the West Coast Highway, a 216km link from Taiping to Banting and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. The project, shelved due to lack of financing, will take three years to complete, said Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

The concessionaire for the project has already been "there for a long time" and will sign the contract within two months of the Cabinet’s approval, he said.

"The Economic Planning Unit has already approved it, but the working papers have yet to be sent to the Cabinet," he said after launching a gotong-royong hosted by the Kuala Kangsar municipal council and the state health department. He declined to reveal the cost of the project.

He said it will ease congestion along the North-South Expressway, which is used by up to 1.2 million vehicles a day on weekends.

The highway will stretch 127km in Perak, from the south-bound Changkat Jering toll exit of the North-South Expressway to a federal road near the Sungai Bernam bridge.

The remaining 89.3km in Selangor will be an existing state road passing through Tanjung Karang and Batang Berjuntai (south-bound), linked to a state road passing through Banting and KLIA.

It is learnt that it will most likely be a toll road as it will be built by private contractors.

The West Coast Highway will be the third longest highway in the country, after the North-South Expressway (966km) and East Coast Highway (330km).

They should have extended this highway to Butterworth or Sungai Petani ideally. Some streches of the NSE in Seberang Perai has six lanes but they are congested still congested like hell during peak hours and holidays all thanks to all the traffic from the Penang Bridge. The volume on those streches is significantly higher than the volume of the Perak stretch.

Non-Stop Route Replacing Jelapang Toll Plaza

November 19, 2006 10:01 AM
By Zuhafizah Ahmad Zaki

IPOH, Nov 19 (Bernama) -- Motorists using the North-South Expressway will no longer have to pass through Jelapang Toll Plaza (North Ipoh) and Ipoh South Toll Plaza one year from now for they will pass through a non-stop route which will be ready by then.

Both toll plazas will be demolished next year once the non-stop route built alongside the 15 km highway is completed, said Perak Infrastructure, Public Utilities, Energy and Water Committee Chairman Datuk Ho Cheng Wang.

He said work on the RM280 million non-stop route project which entails the widening of the present expressway from two lanes in each direction to three lanes began in July and would be completed in October next year.

With the removal of the two toll plazas, two new interchanges and toll plazas costing RM40 million will be built, he told Bernama Sunday.

The Cabinet decided to demolish the Jelapang Toll Plaza and build a new route to replace it as a result of frequent fatal accidents mostly involving heavy vehicles travelling downhill to the toll plaza.

Earthworks for the new route and road expansion is now in progress.

Motorists passing through the 15-kilometre toll-free road between South Ipoh Toll Plaza and Jelapang will be diverted to a two-lane alternative route when the non-stop route is built next year.

Ho said once completed motorists heading to Ipoh would use the new toll plazas at Km 266.85 (Jelapang) and Km 281.44 (South Ipoh).

Inferring on statistics from UEM Group dan Projek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan Berhad (Plus), he said accidents involving 87 brake failures and 55 other cases were reported at the Jelapang Toll Plaza especially during school holidays.

To reduce the accidents at the notorious toll plaza, Plus had built an escape ramp along a stretch of 200 metres measuring between seven and 14 metres wide along the steep road leading to the plaza, said Plus Corporate Communications Director Khalilah Mohd Talha.

Several heavy vehicles which had encountered break failures managed to stop safely at the escape ramp, which was the first ever built at the 847.7 km North-South Expressway which was completed in April.

-- BERNAMA

Malaysia may rise road toll rates

Malaysia is expected to announce tomorrow a sharp rise in road toll rates to help trim state subsidies.

This according to source in Kuala Lumpur who declined to be identified.

Reuters quoted the source as saying that tolls would go up by as much as 60 percent and will affect users of five highways in and around the capital.

A spokesman for the Works Minister confirmed that an announcement would be made tomorrow afternoon.

He declined to give details.

LDP toll will be from RM1.00 to RM1.60...eurgh...

DRB-Hicom to leverage on Kaseh highway
By Isabelle Francis, 14 Dec 2006 10:33 PM
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DRB-Hicom Bhd expects its next "sizeable" property development project to benefit significantly from the proposed construction of the RM1 billion 48km Kajang-Seremban Highway.

DRB-Hicom group director for property and infrastructure Amir Salleh said the highway, which is slated to be completed in three years, would dissect its yet-to-be-developed 600ha landbank at Connemara Estate in Hulu Langat.

“The Kaseh highway actually dissects through our land and connects to the SILK highway. Once it comes up, it will open up our block for development.

"We held the land for a long time. Land cost is low; we do not have funding pressure to develop it.

Maybe over one or two years time, we would look for something,” he told FinancialDaily on Dec 14 after the official unveiling of DRB-Hicom's Glenmarie Cove in Klang by the Sultan of Selangor.

Amir said the possible township at the Hulu Langat site could replicate the success of its Kota Kemuning development, which was jointly carried out with Gamuda Bhd.

“This area is a very competitive. This next sizable project can present a lot of opportunities for us to have a very stable profit," he added.

IJM Corporation Bhd is acquiring a 50% stake in the Kaseh highway via a special purpose vehicle, Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban Sdn Bhd (Lekas).

The remaining 50% will be held by debt-laden Antah Holdings Bhd's unit Kaseh Lebuhraya Sdn Bhd (Kaseh), Antah executive chairman Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Ja’afar and bumiputera institutions.

Kaseh was awarded the project by the government and work was to have started in 1997. However, the project was delayed due to the Asian financial crisis.

Speaking to reporters earlier, Amir said DRB-Hicom now had a total of 3,400ha undeveloped landbank, which includes its plantation and resorts operations that will last it between five and 10 years.

“We are in no rush to divest the land (for property projects); the plantations make money every year and there’s a profit from it,” he added.

Amir said moving forward, it would strengthen and leverage on its Glenmarie brand name that has had presence in the property market for over a decade.

“Glenmarie is for high-end properties and Glen would be for the middle-end for our branding strategy,” Amir said.

On its RM690 million Glenmarie Cove development, Glenmarie Cove Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Ng Tet Min said the second phase of the 10-year project would be launched in April next year.

Glenmarie Cove is an over 80ha-riverfront lifestyle development project that will be carried out over five phases and scheduled for completion by 2012.

Ng said response has been encouraging with a full take-up rate for all 147 units of semi-detached and bungalows in Precinct 1 with a total sales value of about RM66.5 million.

In its current development of Precinct 2, it is already enjoying 70% take up.

He added that its last phase in 2010 might involve the development of a service apartment or a three-star hotel as well as a boat club for the residents of Glenmarie Cove.

New toll rates for five Klang Valley highways
By Eileen Ng and Norazlin Mohd Nor
15 December, 2006

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KUALA LUMPUR: Klang Valley residents have been spared a much higher toll hike from Jan 1 through the cushioning effect of RM2.589 billion in government compensation to concessionaires. With this, tolls for five highways will increase by between 30 sen and RM1.

The highways are the Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong (LDP), Shah Alam Highway, Cheras-Kajang Highway, KL-Karak Highway and the Guthrie Corridor Expressway.

The increase for those using cars works out to between 20 and 60 per cent.

The new rates for cars plying the LDP is RM1.60, up from the current RM1; Shah Alam Highway RM2.20 (up 70 sen from RM1.50); Cheras-Kajang Highway RM1 and 90 sen for Batu 9 and Batu 11, respectively (up 30 sen each); KL-Karak Highway RM5 for its Gombak exit (up RM1) and RM3 for its Bentong exit (up 50 sen); and, Guthrie Corridor Expressway RM1.40 (up 40 sen).

The new rates will be in place until 2011 with the exception of tolls at the LDP which will lapse in 2010.

Toll collection on the Cheras-Kajang Highway will end in 2012.

The compensation is in the form of cash and concession extensions.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said motorists would have been heavily burdened if concessionaires had been allowed to raise rates according to concession agreements.

"But they have been spared this because of the RM2.589 billion compensation paid by the government," he told (reporters at) a Press conference.

According to the agreements, motorists using the LDP would have had to pay RM2.10, Shah Alam Highway RM2.40, Cheras-Kajang Highway (Batu 9) RM1.20 and (Batu 11) RM1.10, KL-Karak Highway (Gombak) RM8.80 and (Bentong) RM3.70.

Samy Vellu said the government had to pay Litrak, the concessionaire for the LDP, RM150 million in compensation besides giving it a one-year extension.

For the Shah Alam Highway, compensation amounted to RM371.8 million and a two-year extension.

Compensation for Cheras-Kajang Highway was RM226.69 million and a one-year extension.

For the KL-Karak Highway, it was RM1.197 billion and a six-year extension.

Samy Vellu said the government had tried to make the toll increase as manageable as possible.

"But we cannot do away with tolls as we do not print money. We get money from taxes and some is used to subsidise toll rates," he added.

Asked whether the hike was fair to road users, Samy Vellu said: "Of course, it’s not fair. The government can pay for everything and allow the roads to be free.

"If someone wants something, he has to pay for it."

He said despite the hike, local toll rates were among the lowest in the world.

The average toll rate for Malaysia is 13.6 sen per km compared with 14.8 sen per km in Indonesia, Thailand (22.76 sen per km), China (27.62 sen per km) and the Philippines (35.57 sen per km).

Samy Vellu said concessionaires would have to improve their services such as traffic flow.

He said several toll agreements would be due for revision on Jan 1, 2008.

Among them are the Ampang Elevated Highway, North-South Highway, Kulim-Butterworth Highway, the Second Link and Seremban-Port Dickson Highway.

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"kerajaan terpaksa tanggung hutang blablabla...ladar lebuhraya malaysia masih rendah berbanding blablabla"....hujah basi lah Datul Samy!!

PLUS will increase their toll in 2008....:ohno:

everything is increasing, why our salary no increase????

next year petrol will increase again, and the unexpectible increasing amount may kill our country economy recovery.

MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what to do...these are people's choice...yes,keep voting dacing!

The economy is sluggish ... an average 4.8%-5.2%. The inflation keep increasing ... Good job Mr.PM !!

any updates about Trans-Borneo Highway???

Come on Borneo Highway....!

KL-KLIA highway a boon to Putra Nilai township
By Rizalman Hammim
December 21 2006
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The highway, together with the development of the Bio Innovation Centre, is seen accelerating the development of Nilai, where its flagship Putra Nilai township is located

PROPERTY developer BBN Development Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of PK Resources Bhd, said the construction of the dedicated highway from Kuala Lumpur to the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang will accelerate the development of Nilai, where its flagship Putra Nilai township is located.

"Once the highway is completed, our development will move southward. Nilai is already considered a part of the Klang Valley," PK Resources executive director Chor Eng Choon said in an interview.

He said the low land price is an advantage to Putra Nilai, but BBN will not compromise on the quality.

"Putra Nilai is ripe for bigger development. We plan to make it a conducive living area for the residents," he added.

The developer has completed about 60 per cent of the 2,524ha Putra Nilai, and sold properties worth some RM1 billion.

"Next year, we plan to start the development of our higher-end properties. By February, we will start construction of our cluster homes that are priced at RM350,000 and above," Chor said.

BBN is expecting a 10 to 20 per cent increase in sales for Putra Nilai next year.

This year, the company sold properties worth about RM60 million.

"Another factor that will boost Putra Nilai is the development of the Bio Innovation Centre (BIC)," Chor said.

Once the centre is completed, multinational corporations (MNCs) in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors are expected to move there.

"This will mean that more visitors and expatriates are likely to come to the township. Therefore, BBN needs to be ready to welcome them," Chor said.

BBN plans to upgrade the facilities and amenities in Putra Nilai, including its clubhouse, so that they will meet the requirements of the visitors.

The BIC, which is being built by Inno Bio Ventures Sdn Bhd, is expected to be completed by the middle of 2008 and will provide purpose-built, attractive and secure space and facilities for biotechnology entrepreneurial activities in the country.

The 6.48ha centre will also provide research facilities for the MNCs.

"A research-based university has also been approved under the Ninth Malaysia Plan and will be located in the area.

"This is part of the Government's plan to turn the country into a medical and pharmaceutical research and development hub," Chor said.

The Negri Sembilan State Government has gazetted a 145.8ha land in Putra Nilai for that purpose.

Inno Bio Ventures is owned by the Ministry of Finance Inc. Another of its subsidiary, Inno Biologics Sdn Bhd, already has a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Putra Nilai.

Chor said BBN is also planning to build a five-star hotel in the township, in anticipation of the expected surge of arrivals once BIC is completed.

"We figured that these visitors would need a place to stay, meet or relax when they are here," Chor said.

He said the company is currently in the planning and designing stages in the development of the hotel. It has allocated an investment of about RM50 million for the hotel.

Another factor that will further boost Putra Nilai is its emergence as an education hub.

"There are currently four colleges located in the area with an enrolment of about 13,000 students.

"More students are expected once the campuses are completed. This will present numerous economic and business opportunities," Chor said.

The colleges that have opened a campus in Putra Nilai are Kolej Universiti Islam Malaysia, INTI International University College, Nilai International College and Murni Nursing School.

"We are also planning to build a private primary and secondary school in Putra Nilai," Chor said.


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:ohno: any name/info for this new highway project over KESAS highway at Bukit Jalil? don't have a clue larrrr... :ohno:

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^^ Could it be Sri Petaling - Putrajaya Highway?

I think this new highway is KL-Putrajaya Highway, this one no need pay toll one, becoz this is for some "people" use one, most of the people from the largest group in malaysia use one ma.

Malaysia Boleh!!!!!!!

yup. its KL-Putrajaya Elevated Highway..

Thanks for the info! :) :)

I think this new highway is KL-Putrajaya Highway, this one no need pay toll one, becoz this is for some "people" use one, most of the people from the largest group in malaysia use one ma.

Malaysia Boleh!!!!!!!


What grass are you smokin' man? :nuts:

Why don't you just spill out whats in your mind, o.k.? We don't like vague mischievious inferences and innuendoes, not least from a self-proclaimed "alien."

Jeeez .......

Government urged to make public all highway concession contracts
Updated : 05-01-2007
Media : The Star


KUALA LUMPUR: The Opposition has asked the Government to make public all highway concession contracts.

Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang said all privatisation contracts, including those for the North-South Expressway (NSE) and five other highways that had increased toll rates this year ¨C Guthrie Corridor Expressway (GCE), Shah Alam Highway (Kesas), Damansara Puchong Highway (LDP), Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway and Cheras-Kajang Highway ¨C must be made public if the administration believed in accountability, transparency, integrity and good governance.

Earlier, at a joint press conference by Parti Keadilan Rakyat, PAS and the DAP, Keadilan information chief Tian Chua said the public should know how much toll they should pay for the next 30 years, since the rates had already been decided upon.

PAS treasurer Dr Hatta Ramli said the LDP concession contract did not indicate that the concessionaire would reduce toll charges with increases in traffic volume.

¡°It favours stakeholders rather than the people,¡± he said.

The Opposition, along with some non-governmental organisations and trade unions, will organise a demonstration in front of Sunway Pyramid, Subang Jaya, on Sunday to protest against the recent toll increase.

What grass are you smokin' man? :nuts:

Why don't you just spill out whats in your mind, o.k.? We don't like vague mischievious inferences and innuendoes, not least from a self-proclaimed "alien."

Jeeez .......

Hear hear putramaya...think every malaysians who use the highways will suffer wherever there is tolls and not just certain groups. so all of us should as the govt to hav our best interests at heart whenever they privatise the roads to the private sectors. Shame on the greedy toll operators and the ppl who shortchange the rakyat when negotiating the toll contracts

Highway to growth in the east coast
Tuesday January 9, 2007
By NURAZIRA RASHID



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Pahang has outlined projects along the highway’s alignment
to spur economic activities.



BEFORE the East Coast Highway (LPT) was opened to traffic on Aug 1, 2004, the journey from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan on the federal road could take up to five hours.

However, the 169km LPT from Karak to Kuantan has cut down the travelling time by half not only to Kuantan but also to other areas in the east coast.

Now an average of 16,000 vehicles ply the RM1.2bil highway daily which is seen as the catalyst for the growth of the east coast corridor. It was opened by Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.

Pahang’s Housing and Growth Centres Committee chairman Datuk Mohd Soffi Abd Razak said the LPT had opened the doors for new development projects and attracted foreign investors to the east coast states.

“Other than boosting development projects, the LPT is also seen as a boon by foreign investors. As the Klang Valley is getting increasingly congested, Pahang can provide an alternative to local and foreign investors through the LPT,” he said.

As the LPT connects major agricultural areas in the state, namely the vast oil palm and rubber plantations, this will ensure the sector continues to grow.

Realising the expressway’s potential, the state has outlined projects along the highway’s alignment to help boost economic activities.

For example, the areas around Maran, Chini and Lanchang have been earmarked for orchards, agro-tourism activities and animal husbandry.

Other than that, LPT is also expected to boost new development projects like the Gambang Technology Park that encompasses the Halal Food Hub Park, Biotechnology Centre, E-Village and Agritech Park near the Gambang interchange; the development of a new industrial area in Bentong; and the development of a resort city in Jalan Kuantan-Gambang and a new town in Gambang.

Mohd Soffi said the development projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan would offer more employment opportunities to the people of Pahang.

Apart from promoting development projects, the LPT is also expected to rev up the local tourism industry and this is already evident from the full occupancy recorded by hotels and chalets during weekends and public holidays.

“The arrival of visitors to tourist destinations has recorded an increase. This is partly because of better roads and the shorter journey, so many Klang Valley residents now opt for Kuantan to unwind during weekends,” said Mohd Soffi.

Based on the Pahang State Structural Plan, the Temerloh-Mentakab district has been identified as the second conurbation in the state with the development focusing on agriculture and industry.

The National Food Terminal has been proposed in Temerloh alongside the Temerloh Integrated Transportation Terminal.

Also, the Bandar Ikan Patin development is an extension to the existing site where small- and medium-scale industries and aquaculture development are given priority.

Meanwhile, for the Maran district, the development concept proposed is recreational housing.

“A potential area has been identified to be developed at the Sri Jaya interchange. Sri Jaya, located about 30km from Kuantan, is expected to benefit from the spillover effects from Kuantan and most likely will see an educational institution and mixed residential projects coming up.

“Nursing colleges, teacher training colleges, public and private institutions of higher learning are most suited to the area,” said Mohd Soffi.

Higher educational institutions and aquaculture projects also proposed near the Karak and Temerloh interchanges and the area around the Maran and Sri Jaya interchanges has been earmarked for housing.

However, the old Kuala Lumpur-Kuantan federal route is still important and several development zones have been identified and mostly aligned along the route. Among the earmarked areas are Karak, Temerloh/Mentakab, Maran, Gambang, Jaya Gading, Kuantan and Gebeng.

These development zones encompass settlements and growth areas along the roads linking the settlements.

The land development in these areas covers residential/housing projects, commercial/town centres, industrial areas, airport, and public, educational and recreational facilities.

Altogether, the projects along the LPT and the old route would have a high economic impact to the areas concerned and would also help expand existing agricultural activities.

In a nutshell, LPT serves as a catalyst for all economic sectors. – Bernama

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Projek Lebuhraya Baru Pantai
Jarak Lebuhraya 19.6 km
Syarikat Konsesi New Pantai Highway Sdn. Bhd.

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sorry double posting.. mind delete this?
thanks

South Klang Valley Expressway
Business Times
By Shahriman Johari



January 15 2007


SKVE Holdings Sdn Bhd, a privately-held company, may issue bonds or secure a term loan to finance a RM1.3 billion highway it is building in Selangor, its chief told Business Times.

The firm has a contract to build and operate a 52.6km toll highway, known as the South Klang Valley Expressway, that will link Cyberjaya to Pulau Indah in Klang.

"We have got the necessary commitment from banks. Normally, bonds should be the best; then there're also commercial papers and term loans," managing director Mohamed Raffe Chekku said in a telephone interview.

It plans to fund 70 per cent of the project with debt, while the rest would come from the company. It also plans to wrap up financing by the end of March.

Construction of the highway is due to start in April this year, and will take some four years to finish. The firm signed the concession agreement with the Government on August 29 2006.

"It has been quite smooth so far. The tender (to build the highway) has just closed. We are carefully evaluating all this," Raffe said.

SKVE Holdings invited between five and eight companies to bid for the highway construction job. It decided to ask only the "big boys" to reduce any risk.

CIMB Investment Bank Bhd is the firm's financial adviser, Raffe said.

The new expressway will provide links to the booming towns in southern Klang Valley, including the country's administrative capital Putrajaya.

Of the 52.6km, SKVE Holdings will work on constructing 43.4km as the first 9.2km stretch, called Section 1A, from the Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten) interchange near Serdang to B15/Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong, had been built and completed in 2000.

SKVE Holdings will develop three distinct sections - known as Sections 1B, 2 and 3 - along the 43.4km stretch, which will link Cyberjaya and Pulau Indah.

SKVE will have six toll plazas, four rest and service areas, and three main bridges, among other infrastructure. It will collect tolls based on the closed system for the three distinct sections, but not Section 1A.

"The expressway is being developed to reinforce Pulau Indah as a regional distribution hub for goods by having a conducive infrastructure linking the area to Puchong," Raffe said in September last year.



where is the section 1A? is it the very end of LDP after the last toll with 1 junction to taman equine park and a junction to kajang?

Semenanjung so many fly-overs!! Sarawak has BIG-BIG fly-overs de.

BUT, Sabah oni has one at KK . Tht is small :cry:...and no post for east Malaysia one......so sad.

Here lar.....

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Nazrey, do you have collection of Sabah & Sarawak highways ??

Nazrey, do you have collection of Sabah & Sarawak highways ??
In the meantime, i don't think sarawak & sabah got any highways.:ohno:

Nazrey, do you have collection of Sabah & Sarawak highways ??

Wow Ah-Chuan what`s the name of that highway ??


I think that the quality of roads and highways in Malaysia is much higher than in Japan .
But still compared to Japan, Malaysian railway network is peanuts !

Nazrey, do you have collection of Sabah & Sarawak highways ??

Wow Ah-Chuan what`s the name of that highway ??


I think that the quality of roads and highways in Malaysia is much higher than in Japan .
But still compared to Japan, Malaysian railway network is peanuts !
No highways in East Malaysia at the meantime.
But only a few flyovers...

Considering the terrain in East Malaysia, building a real expressway across Sabah and Sarawak would be prohibitive in terms of cost....

Wow Ah-Chuan what`s the name of that highway ??

Errmmm....fly-overs got names one meh???

Sacofa To Complete Trans-Borneo Fibre-optic E-highway
Updated : 15-02-2007
Media : Bernama


KUCHING, Feb 15 (Bernama) -- Sacofa, a Sarawak state-owned company, is expected to complete the Trans-Borneo fibre-optic electronic highway soon following the recent signing of a business collaboration agreement with Telekom Brunei Bhd (TelBru).

Sacofa and TelBru formalized the agreement to facilitate the joint use of submarine cable network facilities -- linking Miri, Limbang, Lawas onward to Sabah through Sipitang -- for its restoration plan at TelBru's heaquarters in Berakas, Brunei, on Feb 9.

Sacofa managing director/chief executive officer Abang Jemat Abang Bujang signed on behalf of the company while Telbru was represented by its managing director Song Kin Koi.

Abang Jemat said the link would also provide a back-up for both Sacofa's submarine cable and on land fibre-optic besides paving the way for it to complete the Trans-Borneo fibre-optic electronic highway.

"The collaboration between Sacofa and Telbru will position both companies for its strategic business partnership in the future, hence enhancing relationahip between both parties," he said in a statement Thursday.

Song said the signing of the contract signified another achievement in telecommunication services in Brunei, where both companies would beneift from joint venture opportunities in the fields of Internet protocol transit, voice and data services.

It would also provide Telbru another diversity to its existing international links, he said.

Sacofa is a majority state-owned company, has been licensed to provide telecommunications network facilities and multimedia serivces in Sarawak.

It has terrestrial transmission coverage from Kuching to Miri as well as fibre-optic submarine cable connecting Sarawak and the peninsula.

Another access for Subang
Tuesday February 27, 2007
By LIM CHIA YING
TheStar


ONCE complete, the RM315mil Subang-Kelana Jaya link will provide motorists with an alternative access and exit to and from Subang Jaya, connecting Jalan Kewajipan in Subang Jaya, Jalan Subang (FT 15) and Federal Route 2 (FT2), as well as the NKVE, NPE, and Kesas Highway.

The link starts from the old Subang airport road and ends at Persiaran Kewajipan near the 3K Complex in SS13, Subang Jaya.

During a site visit behind Mesiniaga in SS12, Ahmad Zaki Resources Bhd (AZRB) executive operations director Bakri Ishak said the link would be toll-free as it is a project by the federal government.

AZRB is the main design and build contractor for the link.

Also present during the visit was Subang Jaya assemblyman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng, AZRB project manager Mohd Noor Ali, and engineer Johaidi Giman.




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Work in progress: According to Bakri, the project is
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Bakri said there were two main work elements involved in the project.

The first is to upgrade and improve the existing road, and secondly, to construct elevated structures from Jalan Subang, crossing the Federal Highway and along Jalan Kewajipan.

“The overall length of this project is 4.5km. It will link the three highways - NKVE, Kesas, and NPE.

“Once complete, this link will help efficiently disperse traffic. It'll be of great benefit to Subang and USJ residents, as well as those coming from Kuala Lumpur and the three highways,” said Bakri.

The elevated structure, he said, was a dual carriageway (four lanes), and built between 6m and 26m above ground level.

The project began in Feb 2, 2004 and is expected to finish by Dec 2008.

“We are using three types of construction methods for the entire project. The first is called the 'pre-cast box girder' segment using the gantry launcher for construction work along Jalan Kewajipan.

“These structures are designed as balanced cantilevers.

“The second is the 'travellers' form cast-in-situ box girder', where casting is done on the bridge structure in segments as the formworks are moved between 4m and 5m with the support of previously cast segments.

“This method will be used for the bridge spanning 130m that will cross the Federal Highway.

“The third is called the 'cast-in-situ box girder' through the use of falsework and scaffolding to support it, mainly used at Jalan Kewajipan and Jalan Subang, without affecting the traffic flow,” said Bakri.

Currently, the project is 47% complete and, according to Bakri, well ahead of schedule.

Lee said the link will act as a second access from Subang Jaya to the Federal Highway as there is only one access at the moment.

“The link will be a welcome boost for many who can now use a second exit to get onto NKVE or Federal Highway without paying toll.

“This would allow non-Subang traffic to be taken off local roads, and even enable Subang residents to get onto NKVE without the Federal Highway, which is constantly congested,” said Lee.

Bakri said as part of the construction works, the pedestrian bridge at the 3K Complex in SS13 would also be replaced.

“Because the project is close to public roads, we place a high priority on safety,” said Bakri.

He said AZRB was recently awarded the Occupational Safety and Health Gold Medal Award (Construction Sector) 2006 by the Prime Minister on Feb 6.

LEBUHRAYA LINGKARAN LUAR BUTTERWORTH
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Projek : Lebuhraya Lingkaran Luar Butterworth
Panjang : 12.1 km
Konsesi : Lingkaran Luar Butterworth (Penang) Sdn. Bhd.

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LPB Project Costing More Than RM3.1 Billion To Go Ahead

March 04, 2007 22:19 PM
KUALA NERANG, March 4 (Bernama) -- After a delay of more than a decade, the cabinet has given the go ahead for the West Coast Expressway (LPB) project stretching 215.8 kilometres to be implemented soon.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the expressway, costing more than RM3.1 billion, would link Taiping in Perak to Banting in Selangor and was expected to be completed in seven years.

Speaking to reporters after the ground breaking ceremony for the Alor Star-Kuala Nerang-Durian Burung Road upgrading project, here today, he said the Konsortium LPB Sdn Bhd had been appointed to implement the project.

It will be the third longest expressway in the country after the North-South Expressway (PLUS) stretching 966 kilometres and the East Coast Expressway (LPT) which is 330 kilometres long.

Upon completion, 1.2 million vehicles are expected to use the LPB daily.

The Perak state government had earlier urged the Economic Planning Unit in the Prime Minister's Department to speed up the long-delayed project as land acquisition had been completed.

On the 47.8km Alor Star-Kuala Nerang-Durian Burung Road upgrading which cost RM246 million, Samy Vellu said it was expected to be ready in September 2009.

Taiping-Banting highway plan revived
Monday March 5, 2007
TheStar


ALOR STAR: The RM3.1bil West Coast Highway project linking Taiping and Banting, which had been postponed for 10 years, will be implemented by Konsortium LPB Sdn Bhd, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.

He said the Cabinet had given the go-ahead for work on the 215.8km expressway project to start.

Konsortium LPB is 64% owned by Kumpulan Europlus.

“The RM3.1bil project will take about seven years to complete.

“It will be the third longest highway after the 966km North-South Expressway and 330km East Coast Highway,” he said, adding that once it was completed 1.2 million vehicles could use the new highway each day.

He was speaking to reporters after the ground-breaking ceremony of the Alor Star-Durian Buring road upgrading project here.

The RM246mil project is expected to be completed in 2009.

Earlier in the day, when visiting the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital project, Samy Vellu told reporters that the RM557mil hospital would be handed over to the Health Ministry on March 15.

The hospital project, which started in August 2000, was to have been completed in 2003.

The delay attracted royal concern with Sultan of Kedah Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah expressing his disappointment over the delay in his speech during his 79th birthday celebration recently.

Samy Vellu said the hospital would have 730 beds with 23 normal wards and 11 intensive care units.

Bentong Toll Gate (from Kuala Lumpur)
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Is it me or is the roof a bit senget?

Woah..... :eek::lol:

it's not the toll gate..but the photographer is 'senget'

^^The highway is in hilly terrain, the right roadway is on higher ground while the left road in on a lower level slopping down towards the outer lane. Different lengths of supporting pillars were used for the single straight roof. Therefore the roof is level but the right & left roadway are at different levels. QED

^^ Yeah....I can see tht.

Smoother travel on the NSE
Monday March 12, 2007
By HAH FOONG LIAN
TheStar

SUNGAI SIPUT: Motorists will have a smoother drive on the North-South Expressway when certain stretches become six lanes by year-end.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said there were now “a lot of problems” when travelling on the expressway particularly on weekends.

“The traffic starts on Friday night and will only clear by midnight. The same thing happens on Sunday when travellers return to KL,” he said.

Citing his own travelling experience on the expressway, Samy Vellu said: “Today (Sunday) I have an event in KL and if I leave at 1pm, I will only get there at 5pm. If I am lucky, I get there by 4pm.”

Instead of the usual two-hour drive, he said, it would take between three and four hours to get to Kuala Lumpur from Ipoh during weekends.

The upgrading works involve the Ayer Keroh-Seremban stretch and from Rawang to Slim River.

“The upgrading works are expected to be completed by this September or October,” he said yesterday after a briefing on the RM9.5mil orang asli transit health centre here.

The centre is expected to be completed next May.

On the setting up of the electronic gantry to allow for free flow of vehicles on highways, Samy Vellu said it was likely to be implemented in the middle of 2008.

“The studies will be ready in July this year,” he said, adding that there were existing laws which had to be amended so that the system could be implemented.

He also said there was a need to speed up the toll collection to help ease congestion.

He said he had to wait in a nearly 2km queue while getting off the highway at the Jalan Duta toll plaza although he was using a smart tag because the smart tag lane was blocked by other vehicles.

“The gantry toll collection system will be better. It will make travelling more efficient,” he added.

On making toll concessionaire agreements public, Samy Vellu said:

“I can’t say when they will be made public. I can only say we have put in the papers to the Cabinet. I can’t decide if the papers will be discussed at the next Cabinet meeting.”

Finally....after more than 2 years one of the simple fly-overs has completed and can use liao!!! Pheww~~~~

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Realignment of Route B15, Along Putrajaya and Cyberjaya

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Construction of Gebeng Bypass Road, Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur

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Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong, Subang Jaya

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My turn to post....heheh Kuching's turn....but sad to say some flyover in Kuching doesn't have much use anymore. esp on this road. This road is called Jalan Simpang Tiga. This whole stretch of road is always badly congested. I think this road should be turn into a highway with no traffic lights!! S'wak gov quick as Fed gov to help out.....:cry: :omg:

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^^ Let me guess....King Centre!!!! This I noe can lead to Kenyalang one...is it??

Btw, so congested...the last time I went not really jam.

^^ Let me guess....King Centre!!!! This I noe can lead to Kenyalang one...is it??

Btw, so congested...the last time I went not really jam.

Yeah!! Ah Chuan youget 100 marks hahahahaha:lol: Yeap it is the King Cetre flyover.... easy to see coz of smart green and yellow building hehehehe.

It is very congested these days this photos that I have taken was around 7 to 8am and later on around 2-3 pm another round of jam and 5-6.30/7pm another round.

Those pix remind me to this
Taken by me (2004)

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Nice to see Kuching roads... Thanks dwinz ;)

Yeah!! Ah Chuan youget 100 marks hahahahaha:lol: Yeap it is the King Cetre flyover.... easy to see coz of smart green and yellow building hehehehe.

It is very congested these days this photos that I have taken was around 7 to 8am and later on around 2-3 pm another round of jam and 5-6.30/7pm another round.

Hahaha...I love kuching fly-overs!!! Very nice!! The gyratory system there very smooth and good la!!!! dwinz...can show us the 3rd mile gyratory?? Thx...

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Btw...wat they contruct there?

Hahaha...I love kuching fly-overs!!! Very nice!! The gyratory system there very smooth and good la!!!! dwinz...can show us the 3rd mile gyratory?? Thx...



Btw...wat they contruct there?

That one you can refer to the the Cat City thread on Swinburne University Campus Expansion hehe. I study there hahaha...

3rd mile one ok when I free I got take some photos of it hehehehe

^^ Oh I see....wat course u take?? Or u taking foundation now??

Btw...I love the 3rd Mile gyratory the most!! More big...is it??

The BDC one oso kinda look big...

^^ Oh I see....wat course u take?? Or u taking foundation now??

Btw...I love the 3rd Mile gyratory the most!! More big...is it??

The BDC one oso kinda look big...
3rd Mile one is kind of intersection only i think, there has 4 lanes flyover and 4 lanes underground tunnel link.

Currently, the biggest gyratory might be King Centre one, while another one is still constructing (Stutong Gyratory).

^^ Oh I see....wat course u take?? Or u taking foundation now??

Btw...I love the 3rd Mile gyratory the most!! More big...is it??

The BDC one oso kinda look big...

I am taking Bachelor of Business Accounting hehehe


3rd mile the flyover is quite long because teh roundabout is huge.:nuts:

But in terms of size King Centre one looks bigger haha. The BDC looks big might be because of teh desgin not sure but looks nice at night with al the spotlights hahahhahahha:lol: :okay:

^^ Uhh~~~ Accounting...Nice wat...can bcom accountant in big company!!!

Oh I see...when will be the BDC one completed??

^^ Uhh~~~ Accounting...Nice wat...can bcom accountant in big company!!!

Oh I see...when will be the BDC one completed??

Supposingly to be completed in April which is next month hehehe fast le.

But hard 2 study ler.....

^^ Fast lo!!! The contruction started oni last year which is somewhere end of year. Oni 5-6 months!! Super fast!!! Not like KK one...oni ONE fly-over took 2-3 years....so freaking slow...

Hard eh?? Then study hard looo....If like tht, ur SPM prinsip akaun is A1 la...hehehe..

All road are jammed up!

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'West Coast Highway on track'
By Francis Fernandez
bt@nstp.com.my
March 27 2007



THE Cabinet is likely to discuss this week the implementation of the RM3.12 billion West Coast Highway project, sources said.

The project was mooted 11 years ago, approved by the Works Ministry, but put on hold in 1997 after the Asian financial crisis.

Sources said under the terms agreed by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), the Government will pay the contractor some 18.9 sen per meter to build the country's third-largest highway which spans 216km.

This will give the contractor, Konsortium LPB Sdn Bhd, an internal rate of return of about 15 per cent per year.

The highway, which aims to link Banting and Taiping, was supposed to cost some RM6 billion, but under the revised plan, the project will cost just over RM3 billion.

The project was awarded in 2002 to joint venture firm Konsortium LPB.

Talam Corp Bhd, once the country's biggest builder of low-cost houses, owns 40 per cent of the joint venture company that will build the highway, while its associate Kumpulan Europlus Bhd, formerly Larut Consolidated Bhd, owns a 20 per cent stake.

The finalisation of the revised terms of the West Coast Highway project has been stalling the planned purchase of a 25 per cent stake in Kumpulan Europlus by IJM Corp Bhd, the country's second largest builder.

IJM is proposing to acquire a 25 per cent stake in the loss-making Kumpulan Europlus, with an option for another 5 per cent for 28 sen a share.

The emergence of IJM will likely help stabilise Kumpulan Europlus, which suffered a net loss of RM323.4 million for the financial year ended January 2006, as well as help in the restructuring of Talam.

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this highway is such a paint in the *** for me during the construction days...back then..i used to stay at Sg Ramal Kajang when i was studying at uniten...everyday on the way home...for sure stuck in the traffic jam and the dust..:ohno: after two days..my car sure very dirty one..:bash:
but its nice to see that it is complete already..infact..i'm a regular user to this highway everytime i wanna go to bangi...:cheers:

West Coast Highway
gets go-ahead
RM3.12 billion project to link Banting and Taiping
29 Mar 2007
Minderjeet Kaur
NewStraitTimes


KUALA LUMPUR: The West Coast Highway project, to help ease traffic flow along expressways and trunk roads between Perak and Selangor, is on.

The project, mooted in 1996 but put on hold because of the Asian financial crisis, is expected to cost RM3.12 billion and link Banting and Taiping.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the decision to resume the project, covering 215.8km, was made at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting.

“The project will be given to the original contractors awarded 11 years ago,” he said.

Concessionaires for the project, touted to be the alternative to the North-South Highway, include Kumpulan Europlus Bhd.

A source said the project was expected to start by the end of this year.

"The highway will run parallel to the North-South Expressway with linkages to several major towns, which will give motorists an option to switch highways," said the official.

The highway, which is scheduled to be completed in 2014, will pass through Banting, Klang, Tapah, Asam Jawa, Tanjung Karang, Sabak Bernam, Teluk Intan, Air Tawar, Kampung Gajah, Bruas and Taiping.

The toll rates on the new highway are expected to be similar to the rates on the North-South Expressway.

Kumpulan Europlus was awarded the contract in 1996, but the project did not take off.

Two million cars pack the North-South Expressway during the festive and holiday seasons doubling and, sometimes tripling, travel time.

The new highway can help ease the situation.

The source added that the contractor, Konsortium LPB Sdn Bhd, was expected to take three years to complete the Selangor stretch and four years to finish the Perak stretch.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu had said in November that the Economic Planning Unit would re-submit a working paper on the project to the Cabinet.

Meanwhile, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohd Effendi Norwawi said the Economic Planning Unit would hold a meeting soon with the concessionaires.

"We will not be wasting any more time. We will call them for a meeting to discuss the details of the project," said Effendi.

The original cost of the highway was RM6 billion, but under a revised plan by the EPU, the project would cost over RM3 billion.

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Picture shows Simpang Pulai-Kuala Berang east west highway.The Grik-Jeli east west highway is way to the north :eek: ...wowow I thought there's only a route to Gua Musang which os from KL...that means we already have 3 east west highway including the new one..Ithink this one is no less a stunner cos it's going trh Titiwangsa in central peninsular. I'll try digging out pics again if I have time.


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Second east-west link nears completion
By YUEN MEIKENG
Thursday March 29, 2007
TheStar


PETALING JAYA: The Second East-West Highway which stretches 306km from Simpang Pulai in Perak to Kuala Berang in Terengganu is 92% complete and expected to be ready by the end of the year.

Five of the nine packages that make up the project have been completed, said a Terengganu Works Department project management team member who declined to be named.

The three viaducts, which serve as wildlife crossings along Sungai Kembur, Sungai Kelempai and Sungai Purun in Terengganu are also nearing completion as the final touches are being made on the highway dubbed the “Eco-system Expressway,” by Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh.

All that is left to be done is to construct the road along packages five, six, eight and nine.

Package five involves the stretch between Chiku and Aring in Gua Musang, Kelantan, while package six covers the area between the Kelantan-Terengganu border to Tasik Kenyir.

Package eight involves the stretch from Kg Jeneris to Telemong in Terengganu. The road would also be connected to the existing Second East Coast Highway.

Package nine covers 20km from Kg Kuala Betis to the Gua Musang area.

Plans for package 10 have been dropped as it overlaps the Second East Coast Highway.

Construction work is going on rapidly along the remaining packages.

Central Terengganu Development Authority (Ketengah) general manager Abdul Ghani Che Man said the authority wanted to set up an observation tower at one of the five rest stops along the highway in Terengganu.

“We are proposing that one rest area be equipped with a watch tower so that travellers can view the natural scenery and, if they are lucky, catch a glimpse of the wildlife,” he said, adding that the proposed rest area would be situated in the middle of package six, close to Tasik Kenyir.

“We have yet to determine the location of the other four rest areas along the expressway,” Abdul Ghani said in a phone interview yesterday.

Certain areas along the highway in the state are also targeted for further development to turn sleepy villages into busy towns.

“We are working on developing Pasir Dula and Kg Basung into towns and have other plans for other earmarked areas,” he said, adding that the wildlife zone would see no development.

this highway is such a paint in the *** for me during the construction days...back then..i used to stay at Sg Ramal Kajang when i was studying at uniten...everyday on the way home...for sure stuck in the traffic jam and the dust..:ohno: after two days..my car sure very dirty one..:bash:
but its nice to see that it is complete already..infact..i'm a regular user to this highway everytime i wanna go to bangi...:cheers:

Actually this area was totally alien to me. The mountain scenery after the Sg. Long toll plaza caught me by surprise and from casual observation, the highway seems well built... ;)

Anyway, you're still working in the same company kah?

Simpang Pulai - Gua Musang Road
Taken somewhere near Lojing if I remember properly.
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Actually this area was totally alien to me. The mountain scenery after the Sg. Long toll plaza caught me by surprise and from casual observation, the highway seems well built... ;)

Anyway, you're still working in the same company kah?

this Silk highway spans from the exit of toll Kajang all the way till Mines..making a big round circle which pass Kajang town and Sg Long..i think there's a direct exit to Semenyih...

im no longer with the road maintenance company...now im with consultant...doing the A380 project at KLIA..

NS highway at the jelapang tunnel
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serene!

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where is this place? if the highway is completely constructed, it will be amazing......

it is in KL, near pudu.
u can see BT square,
it will link jln sultan ismaid to tun razak runabout

^^ i didnt know that the part near pudu is that big....but the thing i hate is that all end up at bulatan kampung pandan...it will mess up the existing traffic there..

it is in KL, near pudu.
u can see BT square,
it will link jln sultan ismaid to tun razak runabout

I tot is in Imbi area...coz BT square is there..

Time unit to implement RSA project for PLUS

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Time Engineering Bhd’s unit Time Quantum Technology Sdn Bhd (TQT) has been appointed by Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan Bhd (PLUS) to implement a digital rest and service area (RSA) project at the latter’s RSAs and overhead bridge restaurants along the North-South Expressway.

In a statement on April 4, Time Engineering said the digital RSA project comprised digital advertising television, multimedia kiosk, WiFi hotspots and closed-circuit televisions for 18 RSAs and two restaurants.

It said the appointment would last for five years until March 30, 2011, and shall be extended after the expiry of the term subject to both parties’ agreement.

TQT is an outsource provider of information technology solutions support. PLUS is a unit of PLUS Expressways Bhd.

Time Engineering is connected to PLUS Expressways by virtue of their relationship with UEM Group Bhd, who is the major shareholder of both companies.

In a separate statement, PLUS Expressways said the digital RSA project would generate new revenue without additional investment cost from PLUS.

It said the project would add values to its RSAs as there would be broadband services and distribution of information and entertainment.

“In addition to direct revenue generated from advertisement, PLUS will also benefit in terms of air time costs for information, dissemination of civic messages and other public relations activities via digital TV at RSA,” it said.

Jelutong Expressway

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NS sedia bantu bina lebuh raya PD-KLIA

Oleh Ahmad Naim Tahir


SEREMBAN: Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan akan memberikan kerjasama penuh terhadap pembinaan lebuh raya menghubungkan Port Dickson dan Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) yang disenaraikan sebagai projek keutamaan bagi membangunkan sepenuhnya potensi pantai peranginan Port Dickson.

Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, berkata setakat ini projek yang dicadangkan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) itu masih dalam perbincangan di peringkat kementerian dan agensi bertanggungjawab.

"Saya difahamkan, setakat ini projek berkenaan masih pada peringkat perbincangan untuk memperincikan semua aspek, termasuk jajaran laluan serta kosnya dan menjangka proses itu mengambil masa sebelum projek dapat dimulakan," katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian selepas merasmikan Dialog Bahasa 2007 Peringkat Negeri Sembilan yang dianjurkan Persatuan Penulis Negeri Sembilan (PEN) dengan kerjasama kerajaan negeri, Gabungan Persatuan Penulis Nasional (Gapena) serta Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), di sini semalam.

Kelmarin, Timbalan Menteri Pelancongan, Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chye, dilaporkan berkata kementeriannya sedang bekerjasama dengan Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan untuk menyemarakkan semula sektor pelancongan di Port Dickson seperti zaman kegemilangan sekitar 1980-an.

Untuk tujuan itu, katanya, pelbagai program dirangka secara bersama untuk membangunkan bandar pelancongan di lokasi strategik itu, termasuk membina lebuh raya dari KLIA ke daerah peranginan itu di bawah RMK-9.

Pembinaan lebuh raya menghubungkan KLIA dan bandar pelancongan berkenaan mula dicadangkan beberapa tahun lalu dalam usaha mempromosikan pakej pelancongan transit di Port Dickson, tetapi masih belum dilaksanakan sehingga kini.

Mohamad berkata, kerajaan negeri memberi keutamaan kepada projek terbabit kerana ia boleh merangsang pertumbuhan sektor pelancongan di Port Dickson yang disenaraikan sebagai destinasi pelancongan pantai negara.

"Kerajaan negeri menyokong penuh pelaksanaan projek itu kerana ia mampu memberi manfaat besar kepada Port Dickson dan Negeri Sembilan, terutama dalam sektor pelancongan," katanya.

^^ personally...its not necessary to build this highway yet...even Seremban- PD highway is under utilise...

yupe...... that time i exit Nilai Toll and pass by through KLIA, the highway is under usage and very less people pass by the road..... now they want to construct NS-KLIA highway, i think is not necessary......

PLUS Highway.

The Seremban - Rehat & Rawat (R & R), North bound

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The Food Court
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Prayer Room (Surau)

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Sign Board
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yupe...... that time i exit Nilai Toll and pass by through KLIA, the highway is under usage and very less people pass by the road..... now they want to construct NS-KLIA highway, i think is not necessary......

if you're heading to KLIA from KL..there's at least 3 different routes that u can take...1. using the PLUS highway..which u have to pay the toll around RM 7.00++ if u exit KLIA toll( frm Sg. Besi)
2. use Elite and pay RM5.00 if u from USJ and exit KLIA toll and (3) no toll at all if ur using the new 2 lanes straight roads from Dengkil..super fast and recommended...most opt for option 2 and 3 nowadays and avoid using PLUS

that highway mentioned is the connection between the Smart Tunnel and the bukit bintang area...

I think it will give direct connection into the Smart Tunnel, plus connection to Kg. Pandan roundabout, Jalan Sg. Besi (which will take you to the Sg. Besi highway and KL Seremban Highway), and the KL-Putrajaya highway (with future extension to KLIA)

Currently a flyover is being built that will go over the Kg. Pandan roundabout, and jalan Sg. Besi and connect (somehow) to the KL-Putrajaya highway.....

This new highway/roadway is the reason why rapidKL will be extending their Area 4 (cheras/bandar tun rezak) trunk bus/bas utama routes into KL city (Bukit Bintang) beginning April 21, instead of just stopping at Maluri LRT.

see Rapid KL tweaks Bandar Tun Razak routes (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/13/central/17414571&sec=central)

Cheers, m

this highway is such a paint in the *** for me during the construction days...back then..i used to stay at Sg Ramal Kajang when i was studying at uniten...everyday on the way home...for sure stuck in the traffic jam and the dust..:ohno: after two days..my car sure very dirty one..:bash:
but its nice to see that it is complete already..infact..i'm a regular user to this highway everytime i wanna go to bangi...:cheers:
Yeah I know wat u meant. I used to study at Uniten too....

Work to start on bridge over Federal Highway
Wednesday April 18, 2007
By Elan Perumal
Photos by CHUA KOK HWA
TheStar


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Expanding link: Work in progress on the second phase of the RM315mil
Subang-Kelana link which will take it across the Federal Highway.

Construction work on the RM315mil Subang-Kelana link, is entering its second phase.

Work will soon begin on the link’s bridge across the Federal Highway.

The construction of the bridge is considered the most vital part of the link. However, the work will not cause any problem to the flow of traffic along the Federal Highway.

Ahmad Zaki Resources (AZRB) Bhd announced on Monday that work on the 130-metre bridge’s main span would be carried out under the balanced cantilever construction method.

“We will not be creating any form of support underneath the bridge as construction work on the bridge will be carried out from the top. Rails will be used for the task as it does not require any kind of support from below the bridge.” its executive director for operations Bakri Ishak said.

”It is a tested method which had been widely used in other developed countries and in Malaysia as well,” he told a recent press conference.

Bakri said all safety precautions had been taken and he hoped motorists would not be alarmed upon seeing the concrete structure jutting out over the highway.

He said work on the bridge would be completed in 13 months and the whole link would be ready for use in December next year.

“The link will provide easy access for motorists heading to Bulatan Kemajuan and Kesas Highway from the Subang airport, Jalan Subang and the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) and vice versa.

“Motorists from Subang Jaya heading towards Kuala Lumpur via the Federal Highway can also use the link which is toll free,” he added

Prolintas plans more highways, acquisitions
By Goh Thean Eu
April 25 2007
BusinessTimes


URBAN highway operator Projek Lintasan Kota Holdings Sdn Bhd (Prolintas), which holds the concession to the Ampang Elevated Highway, plans to build more urban highways and buy existing highways for growth.

The company has submitted a proposal to the authorities to build an urban highway, and is in talks with a few parties on potential acquisitions.

"We are in early talks with two to three companies on potential mergers and acquisitions. We have also submitted a proposal to the Government to build an urban highway," said group chief executive Zainudin A. Kadir, without elaborating.

The aggressive expansion plans are part of the company's objective to become the country's leading urban highway operator, before venturing overseas.

"We can venture overseas anytime, but we want to become a leader in the local market before we do that," Zainudin told Business Times in an interview.

The company's plan to become a local champion began as early as last year, when it bought the Guthrie Corridor Highway and was awarded the Lebuhraya Kemuning-Shah Alam (LKSA) project.

The firm, wholly-owned by Permodalan Nasional Bhd, expects revenue to grow by 30 per cent this year, helped by contributions from the Guthrie Corridor Highway. Contributions from LKAS will start kicking in around 2010.

Its highways, which currently attracts about two million vehicles per month, is expected to draw about 3.5 million vehicles once the Guthrie Corridor Highway acquisition is completed.

The highway projects, though very capital intensive, are viable businesses.

"First, the concession period is long term. This would help the operator to sustain its business during economic downturn. Second, it is a cash business," Zainudin said.

Nevertheless, he believes that there are other ways to grow its revenue besides banking on operating more highways.

"One of our plans is to place more emphasis on growing non-toll revenues, which may come in the form of advertising revenue," Zainudin said.

He said the company has the right people, expertise and experience in managing a highway business. An average highway company takes about 10-15 years to break even. Prolintas plans to take less than 10 years.

"In fact, we expect to break even next year," Zainudin said.

Prolintas, a company under Permodalan Nasional Bhd group, is a sponsor of the ongoing Minggu Saham Amanah Malaysia 2007 in Kuantan, Pahang.

Concrete plans for roads, highways
New Straits Times, April 24, 2007


KUAlA LUMPUR: Malaysians can expect more concrete roads soon in the wake of rising oil prices that have put bitumen beyond the Malaysian budget. The Works Ministry plans to encourage contractors to use concrete in laying heavy-duty roads and highways nationwide.

Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the ministry, Public Works Department (PWD), Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA), and Cement and Concrete Association of Malaysia would discuss the implementation of the policy and a proposal for the cabinet.

He said the PWD and MHA had been entrusted with the task of studying the viability of using concrete in the building of roads and highways.

"There is a growing worldwide interest in the use of cement for road construction because of rising bitumen prices due to escalating and volatile global oil prices. The government is taking proactive steps after recognising the benefits and potential of constructing concrete roads on a larger scale," he said at the official opening of AFCM Concrete"

Road Symposium 2007 in Subang Jaya yesterday. Samy Vellu said concrete roads would provide relief from the fluctuations of global oil prices besides saving foreign exchange and boosting the local cement industry.

The local cement industry is suffering from a significant installed grinding overcapacity with cement consumption registering 15.7 million tonnes and unutilized capacity reaching 12.6 million tonnes last year. "High global oil prices have made the cost of constructing and maintaining asphalt roads more expensive and this has led to budget shortfalls for government road and' high*way agencies, hikes in highway tolls, stalled projects and loss of profits for private road owners and contractors."

Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, the government allocated RM17.3 billion for the building of ma)n roads, and RM3':'6·billien'for rural and village roads. Samy Vellu stressed that the use of bitumen, which peaked at RM1, 300 per tonne last year, was already having an impact on the cost of road projects in the country. He said studies showed that the initial construction cost for a typical, asphalt primary road designed to carry 16 million axles was more expensive than a plain concrete equivalent.

At least 30 per cent of the North-South Expressway is built using concrete and there are plans to use concrete on the East-Coast Expressway, he added. MHA director general Datuk Mohd Noor Yaacob said the highway authority would start discussions with the Works Ministry, PWD and the association to implement the policy soon.

He said building roads and highways with concrete would reduce costs by 20 to 30 per cent with the roads lasting much longer. "Roads built using bitumen would have to be resurfaced every few years. "The yearly maintenance cost is also high compared with concrete roads which don't require much maintenance," he said.

Noor said contractors for recently awarded contracts could opt for concrete instead of bitumen but would have to submit a variation order on completion of the job. He added that a committee under the Works Ministry would look into the claims.

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Concrete plans for roads, highways
New Straits Times, April 24, 2007


KUAlA LUMPUR: Malaysians can expect more concrete roads soon in the wake of rising oil prices that have put bitumen beyond the Malaysian budget. The Works Ministry plans to encourage contractors to use concrete in laying heavy-duty roads and highways nationwide.

Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the ministry, Public Works Department (PWD), Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA), and Cement and Concrete Association of Malaysia would discuss the implementation of the policy and a proposal for the cabinet.

He said the PWD and MHA had been entrusted with the task of studying the viability of using concrete in the building of roads and highways.

"There is a growing worldwide interest in the use of cement for road construction because of rising bitumen prices due to escalating and volatile global oil prices. The government is taking proactive steps after recognising the benefits and potential of constructing concrete roads on a larger scale," he said at the official opening of AFCM Concrete"

Road Symposium 2007 in Subang Jaya yesterday. Samy Vellu said concrete roads would provide relief from the fluctuations of global oil prices besides saving foreign exchange and boosting the local cement industry.

The local cement industry is suffering from a significant installed grinding overcapacity with cement consumption registering 15.7 million tonnes and unutilized capacity reaching 12.6 million tonnes last year. "High global oil prices have made the cost of constructing and maintaining asphalt roads more expensive and this has led to budget shortfalls for government road and' high*way agencies, hikes in highway tolls, stalled projects and loss of profits for private road owners and contractors."

Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, the government allocated RM17.3 billion for the building of ma)n roads, and RM3':'6·billien'for rural and village roads. Samy Vellu stressed that the use of bitumen, which peaked at RM1, 300 per tonne last year, was already having an impact on the cost of road projects in the country. He said studies showed that the initial construction cost for a typical, asphalt primary road designed to carry 16 million axles was more expensive than a plain concrete equivalent.

At least 30 per cent of the North-South Expressway is built using concrete and there are plans to use concrete on the East-Coast Expressway, he added. MHA director general Datuk Mohd Noor Yaacob said the highway authority would start discussions with the Works Ministry, PWD and the association to implement the policy soon.

He said building roads and highways with concrete would reduce costs by 20 to 30 per cent with the roads lasting much longer. "Roads built using bitumen would have to be resurfaced every few years. "The yearly maintenance cost is also high compared with concrete roads which don't require much maintenance," he said.

Noor said contractors for recently awarded contracts could opt for concrete instead of bitumen but would have to submit a variation order on completion of the job. He added that a committee under the Works Ministry would look into the claims.

good one..at least maintenance wise...can cut down the cost...:okay:

concrete roads...can get very slippery...as the tire friction reduces the surface and makes it smoother....

but they are easier to maintain, which is important too....

Malaysian way of maintaining bitumen roads is to simply add more...until the road is even a few inches higher than before....sometimes even a few feet ^^ :lol:

Cheers, m

fairul, is the tarmac is made of composite of concrete? if i am not mistaken, the road section of NSE from slim river to KL is made of tarmac.

Concrete roads are create more noise in the cabin. Dont u all notice?:)

Can be quite irritating:ohno:

^^Agree with you. I get this impression that the concrete surface is not doing my tyres any good. Got that ripping sound. Maybe cos we grew up to the sound of tyres on bitumen roads, so more comfortable with that.

Oops. double posting!

concrete roads...can get very slippery...as the tire friction reduces the surface and makes it smoother....

but they are easier to maintain, which is important too....

Malaysian way of maintaining bitumen roads is to simply add more...until the road is even a few inches higher than before....sometimes even a few feet ^^ :lol:

Cheers, m

overlaying/resurfacing is the easiest method for road maintenance...it still can increase the number of years for the pavement and the performance...but it still depends on the pavement defect severity...nowadays..there are many technologies that can determine the life of the pavement and the defects severity..if its too bad..other type of maintenance can be opt for...ie milling( pill off the top layer and lay new layer)...recycling the pavement..and many more

fairul, is the tarmac is made of composite of concrete? if i am not mistaken, the road section of NSE from slim river to KL is made of tarmac.
made from PCC...portland cement concrete...maybe latest technology additive agent added to it...

Concrete roads are create more noise in the cabin. Dont u all notice?:)

Can be quite irritating:ohno:

yes..it can be quite irritating..but it depends on the type of construction...the jointed method are very-very noisy...the unjoined one produce less noise compare to the jointed..

About the noise actually they have a solution called whisper concrete.Actually this JKR is proposing this concrete to be used on future Malaysian highway like the second phase of LPT.
Here is one article about the whisper concrete.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=10842

Portland cement is actually the normal cement used to make any cement structure like building, toilet, roads or cement mortar to glue the bricks if its the suitable word to be used.

About resurfacing yes it is true it is easy to resurface but for concrete highway they are design to last.Did you see any works done on concrete highways in Malaysia?None isn't it. But for asphalt or bitumen every 3 to 5 years the quality deteriorate depends on how long the duration the pavement is design for then you need to resurface it. The only problem is concrete highway initial construction cost is higher compared to a bitumen highway but the fact is the quality remains and last longer.

^^ yerp...heard about this whisper concrete from my former boss last year..widely used in europe..

here's a brief explanation on the concrete road@rigid and the asphalt road@flexible



Difference between concrete and asphalt pavements

Concrete pavement is a rigid structure and asphalt is a flexible structure. Historically, pavements have been divided into two broad categories, rigid and flexible. These traditional definitions, in some cases, are an over-simplification. However, the terms rigid and flexible provide a good description of how the pavements react to traffic loads and the environment.

Flexible asphalt pavement generally consists of a surface of asphalt built over a base course and subbase course. Base and subbase courses are usually gravel or stone. These layers rest upon a compacted subgrade (compacted soil). In contrast, rigid highway pavements are made up of portland cement concrete and have only a base course between the pavement and subgrade using approximately half as much granular material.

By virtue of its rigidity and stiffness, concrete pavements tend to distribute the load over a relatively wide area of subgrade. The concrete slab itself supplies a major portion of a rigid pavement’s structural capacity. Flexible pavement, inherently built with weaker and less stiff material, does not spread loads as well as concrete. Therefore flexible pavements usually require more layers and greater thickness for optimally transmitting load to the subgrade.3
Figure 1 – How Pavements Carry Loads



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overlaying/resurfacing is the easiest method for road maintenance...it still can increase the number of years for the pavement and the performance...but it still depends on the pavement defect severity...nowadays..there are many technologies that can determine the life of the pavement and the defects severity..if its too bad..other type of maintenance can be opt for...ie milling( pill off the top layer and lay new layer)...recycling the pavement..and many more
you are correct, and many times it is the most appropriate method, but I think that sometimes it is just done that way becuause it is the "easiest method" and then in a few months the problems crop up again....

collapsing pavement and potholes caused by water seepage are a big problem here...overlaying wont do much if the foundation is poor

Cheers, m

good one..at least maintenance wise...can cut down the cost...:okay:

Well, Although Concrete is cheaper and least maintenance. But once damage you cannot easily fix with concrete again. you can noticed the NS highway from Tapah to Klang (NKVE) or Jalan Duta. PLUS fix the concrete road with tar (bitumen) instead.

However, I do notice also although Governement commented is Bitumen is expensive. But i notice the Singkai to Rawang NS highway 3rd lane expansion slowly resurface with Bitumen or Tar liao...

Still Think it is not so straight forward to choose either concrete road or bitumen... :)

Well, Although Concrete is cheaper and least maintenance. But once damage you cannot easily fix with concrete again. you can noticed the NS highway from Tapah to Klang (NKVE) or Jalan Duta. PLUS fix the concrete road with tar (bitumen) instead.

However, I do notice also although Governement commented is Bitumen is expensive. But i notice the Singkai to Rawang NS highway 3rd lane expansion slowly resurface with Bitumen or Tar liao...

Still Think it is not so straight forward to choose either concrete road or bitumen... :)

actually it is a common practice to use asphalt for the maintenance of concrete road....like i said..it all depends on the severity of the defects..theres even such cases where the concrete road being resurface by ashphalt...

What's pro-concrete pavement wont tell you:

1. Hidden cost like reinforced steel which prices fluctuate according to market demand.
2. Expensive machineries to pave.
3. Surface may crack due to its rigidity when the road subsoil is soft and crumpy. That's why some stretch from melaka seremban is bumpy and uneven.
4. Maintenance is costly actually. You cut the whole concrete layer and replace with completely new.
5. Concrete pavement makes your tyre wear faster if the surface finishing is bad.
6. Slippery because it has lesser grip onto the tyre unlike asphalt, which has more voids to add friction.

^^ any concrete pavement along the melaka-seremban stretch? correct me if im wrong...the only section with concrete pavement for south bound is right after jasin toll...long term wise..i still think that this concrete pavement is the best choice...esp. in terms of durability..:)

Actually there's no need for a concrete highway.Engineers need to design the base of the road properly.The base is very is important not the surface you see what engineers called it the wearing course.A highway with good base design example like the french autoroute is designed to last at least for 20-30 years before they start digging and throw away the used base and replace it with a stronger one.In malaysia the practice is different.The base is very weak that is why you see some roads are very bumpy even it is new like the LPT.The outer most surface (wearing course) is not the one that gives the highway a smooth surface but the inner one.Personally the best highway in Malaysia with a strong base is the federal highway section from the pintu gerbang to the exit to Subang Airport.The highway is very smooth.New highways cannot match its smoothness the worst have to be the LPT or the Elite highway from Nilai to KLIA.

Actually there's no need for a concrete highway.Engineers need to design the base of the road properly.The base is very is important not the surface you see what engineers called it the wearing course.A highway with good base design example like the french autoroute is designed to last at least for 20-30 years before they start digging and throw away the used base and replace it with a stronger one.In malaysia the practice is different.The base is very weak that is why you see some roads are very bumpy even it is new like the LPT.The outer most surface (wearing course) is not the one that gives the highway a smooth surface but the inner one.Personally the best highway in Malaysia with a strong base is the federal highway section from the pintu gerbang to the exit to Subang Airport.The highway is very smooth.New highways cannot match its smoothness the worst have to be the LPT or the Elite highway from Nilai to KLIA.

are you talking about the subgrade or the road base? its two different things...

it cant be deny that the subgrade of the road is very important...but the ACW ( wearing course) also provides characteristics such as friction, smoothness, noise control and others.....the reason why Federal Highway is smooth compare to the other highway is clearly because of the material..the wearing course for Federal Highway are made from porous asphalt..as compared to other highways in malaysia which used the regular asphalt.....and yes..the subgrade at the federal highway really helps a lot...

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West Coast Highway Project To Start In Mid-2008


KUALA SELANGOR, May 8 (Bernama) -- The construction of the RM3 billion West Coast Highway (WCH) will start in the middle of next year and scheduled for completion by 2011, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu says.

He said the project had been divided into two portions namely Selangor and Perak and the concession period for both was 33 years including three years for construction.

"The agreements between the concessionaires and the ministry will be signed on May 14," he told reporters in Ijok today.

The 215.8-km WCH that will run parallel to the North-South Expressway, will link Banting in Selangor to Taiping in Perak, passing through towns like Tanjong Karang and Sabak Bernam in Selangor and Changkat Jering in Perak.

Samy Vellu also said the toll rate for the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (Smart) had not been fixed but its opening had been brought forward from 1.30pm to 8am on May 14.

Samy who is MIC president, said that works to upgrade roads in Ijok would be completed in two months.

-- BERNAMA

Plus upgrades Sungai Bakap, Ladang Bikam and Behrang lay-bys
2007/05/13
NST Online » NewsBreak
Kuala Lumpur, SUN:

PLUS is upgrading four lay-bys on the North-South Expressway (NSE).

They are the Sungai Bakap (Northbound), Ladang Bikam (Northbound) and Behrang (both directions) which will be equipped with bigger restrooms, more parking space and rest huts.

To facilitate the upgrading works, the four lay-bys will be closed to the public from May 23 until end of September.

"porous asphalt"..may i ask what is the different between normal asphalt?
What is the designed mix like?? Thanks.

Plus Expressways Buys Elite And Linkedua
01-06-2007


KUALA LUMPUR, June 1 (Bernama) -- Plus Expressways Bhd is to acquire two toll operators - Expressway Lingkaran Tengah Sdn Bhd (Elite) and Linkedua (Malaysia) Bhd - for RM866 million from UEM Group Bhd.

Plus Expressways inked a sale and purchase agreement with UEM Group today for the proposed acquisitions.

The company said it will fund the acquisitions via bank borrowings.

Plus Expressways said the acquisitions would provide growth expansion and value enhancement to the group's bottomline in the future.

Elite is the concessionaire for the North-South Expressway Central Link, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) extension link and Putrajaya Link.

Linkedua is the concessionaire for the second Malaysia-Singapore crossing between Tuas in Singapore and Tanjung Kupang in Johor.

TSR Bina Wins Phase 2 East Coast Highway Project
Updated : 06-06-2007


KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 (Bernama) -- TSR Capital Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary TSR Bina Sdn Bhd has obtained the contracts for three construction projects worth RM216 million located in various parts of Malaysia.

In a statement today, the company said the first is the Project East Coast Highway phase two involving the construction of 13.7KM dual carriageways highway for RM145 million. The project is expected to be completed in August, 2009.

It has been also awarded the contract to build a school, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Datuk Abu Bakar Baginda in Sepang, Selangor for RM22 million.

This project includes the building of a block of administration office, five blocks of classrooms and a multipurpose hall. The project is due for completion in February 2009.

TSR Bina has been also awarded a contract for the construction of a main building, quarters and external works for office headquarters in Batu Pahat, Johor for RM49 million. This is expected to be completed by September next year.

PLUS: Check traffic conditions on website
Sunday June 10, 2007
TheStar


KUALA LUMPUR: North-South Expressway users should check traffic conditions with the highway operator's helpline or by viewing real-time visuals on its website before travelling.

PLUS Expressway Bhd corporate communications general manager Khalilah Mohd Talha said its website (www.plus.com.my) had real-time visuals of certain stretches of the expressway where motorists could view road conditions.

Among the stretches with visuals are Damansara, Sungai Buloh, Bukit Lanjan, Seremban, Air Hitam, Jelapang and Juru.

Khalilah, who said traffic was expected to increase because of the end of the school holidays, also urged motorists to follow the 60kph speed limit at stretches where work to construct the third lane of the expressway was being carried out.

The stretches are Seremban-Ayer Keroh, Rawang-Slim River and Ipoh Selatan-Jelapang.

porous asphalt is like u put water on sand.the water just sip thru the sand.This porous surface is very useful to drain the water quickly if the water can't find the drainage fast.Example of porous asphalt is the one used on federal highway section pj where u can see the surface is not as fine as the normal asphalt.

Friday June 15, 2007

RM50 for Smart Tag offer

By SARBAN SINGH

SEREMBAN: The Smart TAG transponder will cost only RM50 for the next three months in conjunction with the 50th Merdeka Day celebrations.

The normal price for a unit is RM100.

The price for a Touch ‘n Go card will also be halved to RM5 during this period.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the Government, in collaboration with the 22 toll concessionaires and Rangkaian Segar Sdn Bhd, had agreed to offer the package to encourage more motorists to go electronic.

He said 30,000 Smart TAGs and 150,000 Touch ‘n Go cards would be offered.

“However, each motorist will only be allowed to buy one set,” he said, adding that it was a good time to buy the gadget which cost RM240 when it was introduced.

Motorists will now pay RM65 for a set, which will include RM10 prepaid credit.

Samy Vellu said the campaign would be held in stages with 2,000 Smart TAGs and 10,000 Touch ‘n Go cards up for sale in June and July respectively.

In June, the items will be on sale from Mondays to Fridays at the Rawang, Sungai Buloh, Kota Damansara, Jalan Duta and Sungai Besi toll plazas.

Motorists will be able to get them at the Penang Bridge, Elite Expressway and Linkedua in Johor next month.

In August, the items will be available at all toll plazas.

Samy Vellu said that at present, only 40% of motorists passing through toll plazas use the electronic system.

At the Penang Bridge, about 60% of motorists use the facility.

He urged motorists to grab the offer as the Smart TAG lanes could process 900 transactions an hour compared with 240 at the manual lanes.

“Also, the same system would form the basis for the gantry system which we hope to introduce soon,” he told reporters after opening PLUS’ northbound R&R area on the North-South Expressway near here.

Under the gantry system, motorists need not stop to pay toll at the booths. Deductions would be made automatically from their prepaid toll cards, almost similar to the present Smart TAG system.

Construction of the Subang-Kelana Highway Link
Completion Dec 2008
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anyone know when the nse to jb new custom expressway will construct? and will it be an upgrade to a current road or build a new one? thanks

MRCB to build and operate RM977m expressway
Wednesday June 27, 2007
TheStar

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) yesterday signed a concession agreement with the Government via the Works Ministry to design, construct, operate and maintain the Eastern Dispersal Link Expressway (EDL) in Johor worth RM977mil.

Group managing director Shahril Ridza Ridzuan said the project would be undertaken by wholly owned subsidiary, MRCB Linkaran Selatan Sdn Bhd (MLSSB).

Shahril said the EDL, which had a concession period of 34 years, would take four years to complete (inclusive of land acquisition) starting from Oct 1.

Stretching about 8.1km, the EDL is an open toll system with dual three-lane carriageway directly linking the new Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (CIQ) at Tanjung Puteri and North-South Expressway via the Pandan Interchange in Johor Baru.

The EDL project also included providing an integrated traffic surveillance and control system, street lighting and traffic information system that would reduce the journey between the Pandan Interchange and CIQ to less than 10 minutes, he told reporters after the signing between MLSSB and the Government yesterday.

Shahril said the EDL, which was the company’s second concession project, was significant for MRCB as it would be playing a major role in the infrastructure works needed to support the Iskandar Development Region.

While the project would help strengthen MRCB’s recurring income stream over time, it would not have a material impact on the company’s earnings for its current year ending Dec 31, he said.

Shahril also said the EDL project would pump up MRCB’s order book, which currently stood at RM2.4bil.

MRCB, he said, would finance the project mainly through the bond market and partly from reserves.

On the Penang monorail project, Shahril said MRCB was hopeful of securing a major slice of the project.

“We are working with two other companies to bid for the project. Each of us have our strengths,” he said, adding that MRCB hoped the Government would announce the winning bids before year-end.

Work on RM977m link to start soon
Wednesday June 27, 2007
TheStar


KUALA LUMPUR: Work will start in October on a RM977mil highway to link the North-South Expressway with the new Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex near the Causeway in Johor.

To be constructed by a subsidiary of Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB), the Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) would help to reduce the daily traffic jams between Johor Baru and Singapore.

Construction and land acquisition for the 8.1km expressway would start on Oct 1 and expected to be ready by late 2011.

MRCB will carry out upgrading works for roads which are affected by the construction of the EDL.

Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu witnessed the signing of the EDL concession agreement between the Government and MRCB Lingkaran Selatan Sdn Bhd here yesterday.

“The expressway will be toll-free, except for those going to and from Singapore through the CIQ. The toll rate will be kept to a minimum,” he told reporters.

Features of the EDL include a three-lane dual carriageway; with 4.4km of it elevated.

There will be a rest stop on either side of the expressway.

Samy Vellu said there would be interchanges at Pandan (where the North-South Expressway ends), Bakar Batu and the new CIQ at Bukit Cagar.

“The speed limit has been set at 90kph and motorists will take less than 10 minutes to travel from the Pandan Interchange to the CIQ.

“This compares to the 45 minutes it currently takes during peak traffic by going through Jalan Tebrau and Jalan Linkaran Dalam,” he said, adding that the concession was for 34 years, including the time it would take to construct the EDL.

MRCB Eyes RM8.98 Bln Revenue From IDR Expressway
Updated : 26-06-2007
Media : Bernama


KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) is eyeing RM8.98 billion in revenue over 30 years, up to 2041, from the proposed 8.1 km Eastern Dispersal Link Expressway (EDL) in Johor Baharu.

The revenue projection is based on the traffic projection for 30 years, it told Bursa Malaysia Tuesday.

The highway will be free for all road users except for vehicles entering or exiting Malaysia at the causeway through the CIQ (customs, immigration and quarantine) complex, said MRCB.

It signed a concession agreement with the Works Ministry today to design, construct, operate and maintain the EDL, witnessed by the minister, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

MRCB wholly-owned subsidiary MRCB Lingkaran Selatan Sdn Bhd will carry out the project.

EDL's construction cost is about RM977 million and the infrastructure work will begin on Oct 1 and be completed by 2011, with the 34-year concession period including the four-year construction phase, he said at the signing ceremony.

The EDL will connect the end of the North-South Expressway southern route with the Iskandar Development Region and Johor Baharu city centre, acting as a bypass to the CIQ complex without using the Tebrau Highway.

About 4.4 km of the highway will be elevated with three major interchanges, Pandan, Bakar Batu and at the CIQ.

Samy said the EDL will address the heavy traffic flow on the main artery roads in Johor Baharu and in the long run help promote economic growth and tourism in the eastern part of Johor state.

On how the project will be financed, MRCB group managing director Shahril Ridza Ridzuan said it will be a combination of equity and bond.

"We will be tapping the local bond market, probably Islamic Bond," he added but declined to give the exact size of the bond issue.

However, he said the normal benchmark for raising capital from the bond market for such projects is 70 percent of the total cost.

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Muhibbah bags RM1.1b expressway job


July 7 2007


MUHIBBAH Engineering (M) Bhd has been awarded a RM1.1 billion contract to build the South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE).
The SKVE will stretch from Damansara Puchong Highway (LDP) interchange to Pulau Indah.


Muhibbah said yesterday the construction project will involve the entire works required in building of the expressway. The contract period is for 42 months.


The company said the contract is set to contribute positively to its future financial results.

^^^ i can smell new job oppurtunity...hahaha

Jabor/Sri Jaya Interchange Opens On July 15
July 13, 2007 22:53 PM

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 (Bernama) -- A 14km Gebeng bypass connecting Kuantan, Pahang with Jabor, Terengganu will be opened to traffic from Sunday, a statement issued by the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) said today.

The last section of Phase 1 of the East Coast Expressway (LPT) has an elevated interchange, which is the Jabor elevated interchange to link Jabor to Kampung Gemuruh, Terengganu, being carried out under Phase 2 of the LPT.

It also serves as a bypass to Jalan Persekutuan 14 (Jerangau-Jabor Expressway), the Gebeng industrial area, Kuantan Port and Cherating.

On the same day, the Sri Jaya elevated interchange at Km 187.2 (Phase 1 of the LPT) will also be opened to traffic heading to Tasik Chini, Pahang.

The two sections of the expressway will be opened beginning 12.01 am on Sunday and at the elevated interchange at Jabor and Sri Jaya, the toll payment will be imposed effective on the same time and day.

The toll rate is between 80 sen and RM63.10 depending on the vehicle class at the Jabor exit and between RM1 and RM40.30 at the Sri Jaya exit.

The LPT is an expressway network to link the states in the east and west coast of the peninsula. It is part of the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway which begins at the Gombak toll plaza in Selangor.

-- BERNAMA

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Zecon gets another Matang Highway project
Tuesday July 17, 2007
By JACK WONG
TheStar


KUCHING: Zecon Bhd has secured a RM124mil (US$35.6mil) contract for the proposed extension project of the Matang Highway near here.

Chief executive officer Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad said the project would involve the construction of a 13.3km new dual carriageway leading to the proposed federal administrative centre in Matang.

When completed in 42 months, the project will see the highway extended closer to the city centre at Taman Matang Jaya.

Zainal said Zecon, an integrated construction and infrastructure firm, had completed nearly 60% of another stretch of 25km of the Matang highway which will link the proposed federal administrative centre to Bulatan Abang Kipli.

Zecon secured this earlier project worth RM314mil (US$90.2mil) in 2002.

"With this latest contract, Zecon’s order book has been brought to RM1.2bil (US$344.8mil)," said Zainal.

PLUS gets RM2b loan to fund road job
July 19 2007
BusinessTimes

MALAYSIA'S biggest toll highway operator PLUS Expressways Bhd has obtained a RM2 billion loan to finance 70 per cent of the cost of building a road in Indonesia.

The 12-year loan will carry an interest rate equivalent to the reference rate of the lenders plus a margin of 5.75 per cent a year. The indicative interest rate now is 12.75 per cent, PLUS said in a statement to Bursa Malaysia yesterday.

It did not identify the lenders.

The loan is to P.T. Lintas Marga Sedaya, a subsidiary of PLUS, which is building the Cikampek-Palimanan toll road.

10-08-2007: Gadang, Mudajaya get highway jobs
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KUALA LUMPUR: Gadang Holdings Bhd and Mudajaya Group Bhd have each secured a contract worth RM278.88 million and RM96.3 million, respectively for the construction of parts of the Kemuning-Shah Alam Highway.

In separate statements yesterday, the companies said they had been awarded two-year contracts by Projek Lintasan Shah Alam Sdn Bhd.

Gadang said its RM278.88 million contract would be undertaken by its equal joint venture with Pembinaan Punca Cergas Sdn Bhd (PPC) for work on the stretch from the Kota Kemuning interchange to the Alam Impian township in Shah Alam.

Mudajaya said its subsidiary Mudajaya Corporation Sdn Bhd was given the portion of the highway stretching from Section 35 of the Shah Alam interchange to Section 24 at Jalan 24/13 in Shah Alam.

Time, PLUS to provide Net access at rest areas
Updated : 17-08-2007
Media : The Edge


KUALA LUMPUR: Time Engineering Bhd, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Cyberplus Sdn Bhd, is working with PLUS Express Bhd to provide Internet access and digital media information in all rest and service areas (RSA) along the North-South Expressway.

The new service, called Splugg, will be available at 18 RSAs and two overhead bridge restaurants (OBR) at Sungai Buloh and Ayer Keroh, respectively, along the 847.7km expressway, said Cyberplus chief executive officer Raihana Ahmad yesterday.

Internet access is available through WiFi access points or Internet kiosks while LCD televisions broadcast entertainment, traffic information and public service announcements.

Raihana said that the initial investment was more than RM2 million for every five RSAs. Currently, all 18 RSAs are equipped with the TV sets while WiFi access is available in all except two RSAs in Rawang, Selangor, and Machap, Melaka.

Meanwhile, PLUS corporate communications general manager Khalilah Mohd Talha welcomed the service as road users would benefit from the live traffic updates and the latest news.

Cyberplus has partnered with companies such as Ntv7, Telekom and the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) to provide the content for the TV broadcast. It is also working with MTPB to come up with a travel magazine named K-PO, said Raihana.

Cyberplus hopes to get the kiosk and K-PO magazine up and running in the next three months.

Miros' Target: Five-star Drivers, Vehicles, Roads
August 18, 2007 10:18 AM
By Alan Ting

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- Five-star drivers, five-star vehicles and five-star roads.

That's the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety (Miros)'s medium and long-term plans in cultivating good and safe driving habits among Malaysians to reduce road fatalities.

Its director-general Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi said: "We have looked at so many cases and without fail, we found the combination of three factors -- driver, vehicle and road -- as the cause of any road accident."

Miros, set up in January this year, was given, among others, the task to carry out relevant research and establish cost-effective road safety intervention to enhance the current level of road safety.

Touching on Monday's worst road accident in which 20 people were killed and nine others injured when an express bus driver lost control of the bus and crashed it into a ravine at Km229 of the North-South Expressway, near Bukit Gantang, Taiping, Radin Umar said the accident could be minimised if the bus operator was more focused and appreciated safe driving aspects.

"Accidents do happen but if you have a five-star bus driver, the impact of the accident could be minimised," he told Bernama here today, adding that was the reason why the cabinet decided to comply with the WP29 of UN-ECE regulations.

The WP29 UN-ECE regulations is a global technical regulation by the United Nations aimed at harmonisation of vehicle regulations which cover a number of guidelines including the construction of quality bus roofs, undercarriage and bumpers.

Radin Umar, who has vast experience in road safety, said most bus operators were against the implementation of new safety regulations since they did not appreciate safe driving aspects in their fleet management system.

"They look at it negatively. If we have CEOs (chief executive officers) who place importance on safety, then it would be part of the daily activities," he said.

Thus, among the measures to be taken under Miros' campaign to instil safe driving, is reviewing the current driving curriculum to ensure greater emphasis on safety knowledge such as defensive driving skills, which is in the implementation stage as a pilot project.

"If this component is incorporated in the training, the drivers can demonstrate and appreciate safe driving which would make them good drivers. Hopefully, by the year end, we can come out with a good programme for it to be extended nationwide," he said.

Radin Umar said Miros was also trying to educated Malaysians on the need to invest in safety equipment, apart from working with the government to make such devices affordable to the people.

Lamenting public attitude for not taking safety seriously and preferring cheap safety devices, Radin Umar said: "Life cannot be subsidised.

"Safety is not the people's main consideration. They want cheap stuff."

He said Malaysians should try to acquire safety devices like airbags and child car seats to reduce road fatalities.

On the increasing number of road fatalities, he said currently on average, 17 people died daily in road accidents, with 10 of them motorcyclists.

"There is a need for the public to regulate themselves as this is the best way to prevent fatal accidents, and not blame it on the government for lack of enforcement," said Radin Umar who was once a professor of road safety engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Radin Umar who was responsible in setting up Miros, said Malaysia had put in place various laws to ensure people drive or ride safely within the speed limits, wear a safety belt or crash helmet, yet people flouted the rules.

"But when a serious road accident happens, involving the loss of many lives, they are quick to blame government enforcement

"But we on our part, are not enforcing safety on ourselves.

"No doubt the police and Road Transport Department have to enforce the law, but they should be focusing on the recalcitrants."

While admitting that it would take some time for road safety to be a culture in Malaysia, he said efforts had been made towards this by introducing road safety education in primary schools this year.

"This is our long-term solution. Perhaps we can see the results in 20 years' time," he said.

-- BERNAMA

Miri receives RM465m highway projects ‘gift’
Saturday September 1, 2007
TheStar


MIRI: This city, the oil capital of Sarawak, received a RM465mil Merdeka Day “gift” yesterday.

A new RM400mil four-lane highway will be built to connect the Sarawak-Brunei checkpoint to Miri Airport while a RM65mil flyover highway has just been completed.

Both the vital infrastructure projects will transform the land transportation layout of this resort city.

Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud made the announcement yesterday to 300,000 people in this northern hub of Sarawak, which hosted the state-level Merdeka celebrations.

“The four-lane highway will be built from Kuala Baram (the checkpoint) to the airport. This project has been approved already and the funds will come from the Federal Government,” he said.

“These projects are vital for the transformation of Miri, which is fast expanding from the shores across Canada Hill to the inland.

“As this city progresses and expands, we need to widen our roads and create new links, and to open up new suburbs to meet the needs of the fast-expanding population,” he said yesterday at a ceremony to mark the completion of the flyover.

Taib, who is also State First Finance Minister and State Minister for Planning and Resources Management, said the flyover would reduce the massive traffic congestion faced by some 50,000 folk living in the Tudan resettlement area and the various residential estates in the Kuala Baram vicinity.

Earlier, at a parade at the Miri Stadium, Taib said Sarawak had been transformed from being one of the poorest to one of the richest states in Malaysia.

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Cheers, m

Miri receives RM465m highway projects ‘gift’
Saturday September 1, 2007
TheStar


MIRI: This city, the oil capital of Sarawak, received a RM465mil Merdeka Day “gift” yesterday.

A new RM400mil four-lane highway will be built to connect the Sarawak-Brunei checkpoint to Miri Airport while a RM65mil flyover highway has just been completed.

Both the vital infrastructure projects will transform the land transportation layout of this resort city.

Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud made the announcement yesterday to 300,000 people in this northern hub of Sarawak, which hosted the state-level Merdeka celebrations.

“The four-lane highway will be built from Kuala Baram (the checkpoint) to the airport. This project has been approved already and the funds will come from the Federal Government,” he said.

“These projects are vital for the transformation of Miri, which is fast expanding from the shores across Canada Hill to the inland.

“As this city progresses and expands, we need to widen our roads and create new links, and to open up new suburbs to meet the needs of the fast-expanding population,” he said yesterday at a ceremony to mark the completion of the flyover.

Taib, who is also State First Finance Minister and State Minister for Planning and Resources Management, said the flyover would reduce the massive traffic congestion faced by some 50,000 folk living in the Tudan resettlement area and the various residential estates in the Kuala Baram vicinity.

Earlier, at a parade at the Miri Stadium, Taib said Sarawak had been transformed from being one of the poorest to one of the richest states in Malaysia.:ohno: :bash: ^^ sigh....Taib, Taib, Taib....do you really want to recreate the worst of peninsular Malaysia in a lovely city like Miri?

How about encouraging more development in the city instead of suburbs...how about building up the public transportation system? Miri has one of the best systems with frequent bus service...How bout a rail connection between Miri and BSB?

C'mon Tan Sri, highways and flyovers and suburbs are not the only options...

Cheers, m

haha...you are to agog on public transportation, allurban. even you can condemn Miri-from their money malaysian get paid(oil revenue). so they deserve their money....not everything has to be poured in KL....we are not willing to see malaysia will be like indonesia where all incomes from oil production province are flowed into jakarta...