Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Kinrara centre of it all

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all our muslim friends and happy holidays to all.

In the Star paper today, Kinrara will be seeing some major changes in the near future.

Coming our way will be a Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya highway (SKIP). 

According to the report the construction is supposed to start end of next year and expected to finish in 2016.

The new Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya highway

From the map I can see that the highway will start someway next to Giant supermarket in BK4, and heads towards Serdang direction. It will then split into two at the middle, with one heading towards Putrajaya while the other towards Sri Kembangan.

Although there are not much details yet, I imagine they will upgrade the road in front of  Kinrara golf course to make it part of the highway, then eventually joining back to Bukit Jalil highway somewhere near Giant supermarket in BK4.

With that highway, there are certainly a few new ramps and road intersections at our area. Is that one of the reasons affecting the LRT alignment that Prasarana is not telling us? It could be.

It is also funny the report mention the new highway will help to ease the congestion on LDP in front of IOI mall. How is that so I have no idea when the highway isn't linked anyway close to IOI mall at all.

What will happen for sure is, with the new LRT line and highway in the future, all at the Bukit Jalil highway area, Bandar Kinrara will see some of the heaviest traffic congestions in the Klang Valley. I wonder we will be able to move around anymore.

Major highways should be designed to join other major highways (for example North-South-Highway to Kesas, Kesas to North-Klang-Valley expressway, etc) in order not to have bottlenecks. By joining the new highway to the smaller roads in our area is a traffic congestion disaster waiting to happen.

And that's not all. There will be yet another Kinrara-Damansara highway linking our area to Pusat Bandar Damansara in the pipe line according to the report. I have no idea where that highway will join to.

Meanwhile, we are still waiting for a reply on our LRT problems. With all the festive holidays, it could be a while.




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