Kepong residents interesting for brand spanking new interchange to ease site visitors congestion on Kepong-Selayang Freeway

In line with a report by The Star, residents in Taman Daya, Kepong need the authorities to evaluate their proposal to ease site visitors congestion alongside the Kepong-Selayang Freeway by constructing an interchange that hyperlinks to the Center Ring Street 2 (MRR2).

The excessive quantity of site visitors over time has resulted in insufferable day by day site visitors congestion on the freeway, with residents saying it now takes over an hour to move to Kuala Lumpur throughout peak hours. A proposal for an interchange was first initiated approach again in 2014 however was rejected.

“There may be all the time a protracted queue alongside the Selayang-Kepong Freeway as a result of site visitors lights, and it may be fairly irritating. Generally, autos queueing on the site visitors lights block motorists who need to flip left in direction of Batu Caves,” stated Victor Chiam, a resident dwelling in close by Taman Intan Baiduri, who added that motorists used different neighbourhood roads as a detour to move to Kuala Lumpur.

In a written reply, senior works minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof stated site visitors congestion resulted from the lengthy line of autos queuing the site visitors lights alongside the Kepong-Selayang Freeway. He added that the site visitors situation worsened when the T-junction was made right into a cross junction.

The works ministry has proposed the development of a 300-metre-high flyover on high of the MRR2 to handle the issue, though this is able to contain excessive land acquisition prices on restricted house. As such, the short-term answer was to vary the queue time of the site visitors lights. Residents stated they’d proceed to put in writing to the works ministry to push for the interchange. Are you a day by day person of the Kepong-Selayang Freeway? Would you assist the proposal for an interchange linking to the MRR2 to be constructed?