
Duke Highway
#1
Posted 11 February 2009 - 04:10 PM
News extracted from The Star Online.
Saturday January 10, 2009
Expressway now open to traffic
By ROYCE CHEAH
THE Klang Valley’s newest highway, the Duta-Ulu Klang Expressway (DUKE), is now open.
The 18km highway, 40% of it elevated, provides an alternative route through and out of the city as it bypasses many roads that are usually congested.
The highway is divided into three sections – Section One, from Jalan Duta to Sentul, Section Two from Sentul to Greenwood (near Batu Caves), and Section Three from Sentul to Hillview (Ulu Klang).
There will be three toll plazas at Batu, Ayer Panas and Sentul Pasar.
The seven elevated interchanges will be at Jalan Duta, Jalan Kuching, Sentul Pasar, Setiawangsa, Hillview, Bandar Dalam and Greenwood.
Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed, who offcially opened the highway, said the DUKE was the vital missing link in the current road network in the Klang Valley and would help ease traffic congestion in the inner city.
He said the DUKE took three years to construct and was built at a cost of RM892mil, with land acquisition costing about RM255mil.
“Highway users will be exempted from toll payments for one month. The highway will have an open toll system with 46% of the highway being toll-free,” he said.
Good start: Motorists cruising on the new highway.
Mohd Zin said the DUKE was expected to cater to some 120,000 vehicles a day and that toll charges would start at RM2 and would only be increased after six years.
He said the highway concessionaire had also agreed to make the agreement public and it could be viewed at the Works Ministry library from today.
Mohd Zin added that the DUKE had also undergone two safety audits, one by the concessionaire’s consultant and one by the Road Unit of the Works Department.
“The results were satisfactory considering the geometric constraints that were faced. It was also important to look into the safety in the context of the landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa,” he said.
Mohd Zin also said he had submitted an interim report on the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide to the Cabinet and a full report would be submitted soon.
“Basically, what it has shown us is that it was all our creation. We did not respect mother nature,” he said.
Jaime
#2
Posted 11 February 2009 - 04:19 PM

Driving from Gombak to UK via The Duke:
The partially completed D.U.K.E. or Duta-Ulu Klang Expressway (Lebuhraya DUKE) is now accessible. The new highway spans a heavily populated and highly-congested part of Kuala Lumpur. It starts near the NKVE toll plaza at Jalan Duta and ends at Ulu Klang, near Bukit Antarabangsa. Midway, it also branches out into the Greenwood Interchange for travel to Batu Caves, Karak Highway, Genting Highlands and the East Coast Expressway.
On this journey, UK-bound road users from Karak Highway (through the opposite-facing Sentul Toll Plaza) can view the locations of the exits and entry points at Air Panas, Semarak, Setiawangsa, Jalan Enggang and at the Hillview Interchange in Ulu Klang. By connecting to the MRR2, one can also proceed to AKLEH (Ampang-KL Elevated Highway), to the KL-Seremban Highway and KESAS. For Ampang residents, it may be the quickest way to get to Petaling Jaya when the highway fully opens. For Petaling Jaya residents, it might be the easiest way to get to busy Jalan Tun Razak and the Bukit Bintang area. MyCen Video will follow up with a full edition when the currently closed stretch between Sentul and Jalan Kuching is completed.
Other useful info/link (still good as at date of posting):-
http://en.wikipedia....lang_Expressway
http://www.mycen.com...arak_to_uk.html
Jaime
#3
Posted 11 February 2009 - 04:22 PM
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#4
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:22 PM
Where got open? From duta to ampang still cannot!
Some more cannot turn towards ampang from semarak / air jerneh, where there clearly have plenty of land.
#5
Posted 14 February 2009 - 11:29 AM

What says the opposition in term of safety, value for money and reliability of the highway?
Surely doesn't want another MRR2 Kepong Highway....blame it on mother nature.

#6
Posted 16 February 2009 - 10:29 AM
Nope, not fully yet.
Jaime
#7
Posted 16 February 2009 - 07:08 PM
Not bad la da highway very fast(if u drive fast)
Not fully open yet..... ahead of schedule, sud open in April 2009 but wat to do??? wanna get money fast fast fr toll collection dy...deng

#8
Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:48 PM
Not bad la da highway very fast(if u drive fast)
Not fully open yet..... ahead of schedule, sud open in April 2009 but wat to do??? wanna get money fast fast fr toll collection dy...deng

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#10
Posted 19 February 2009 - 10:48 PM
That's the problem with Msia highway builder and the authorities. No planning is bad enough, but i believe these people have NO PLANNING at all. Just build without doing any impact study.
One good example is on MRR2...look at how they design the entry and exit into Pandan Indah. Can you imagine, exit and entry at the same point!
DUKE highway...actually before it was opened, i have already predicted that this deadlock will happen. MRR2 is already so congested, and these buggers now let more traffic flow onto MRR2 by building DUKE...it's disastrous!