Sungai Besi’s SMART tunnel
I’ve been at KLCC for an event these few days, and traffic in KL proper is horrible during rush hour.
I’m not particularly brilliant at navigating KL’s roads at 6.30 in the evening, but I gambled on the Tunku Abdul Rahman flyover and Sungai Besi’s spanking new SMART tunnel.
The tunnel is supposed to trap water during torrential rainfall, by closing up access roads that normally ferry cars back and forth its entire 4km length. In fact, SMART stands for “Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel”… not that you really wanted to know.
The interesting bit about this is that you can pretty much do away without traffic congestion when you’re stuck somewhere around the Kampung Pandan roundabout, or at the end of Bukit Bintang main road, and you just have to get to Cheras, Seremban, or like me, back to PJ.
They haven’t started charging at the tolls yet, so today was as good a time as ever. I breezed through four kilometers of traffic jams that would give you a migraine the size of a durian.
When I got out to broad daylight, the road curved towards the KL-Seremban highway, eventually leading at the Federal Highway where Midvalley is.
I had to weather the jams on Federal, but that’s pale in comparison to the madness along the Sungai Besi road.
The tunnel was good fun, anyway… bad traffic or not.
SMART Tunnel is on Wikipedia: link
Some losers along the Sungai Besi highway as I breeze out the exit of the SMART tunnel:
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