Malaysian Federal Roads system

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Malaysian Federal Roads System (Malay; Sistem Laluan Persekutuan Malaysia) (Chinese: 马来西亚联邦大道系统) (Tamil: please fill in), is the main national road network in Malaysia. It was built and maintained by the Public Works Department Malaysia (JKR).

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[edit] History

Most of the federal roads in Peninsular Malaysia were built during the British colonial era before 1957. At that time, the British government built the roads in order to enable them to transport goods and commodities easier.

In Sabah, most of the federal roads were built during the occupation of British North Borneo under North Borneo Chartered Company administration, and unlike most federal roads in Peninsular Malaysia which uses only numbers to label federal roads, Sabah federal road codes begin with the letter A followed by route number.

However, in Sarawak, no road network system was developed during the rule of White Rajah Brooke dynasty. As a result, right after Sarawak joined the federation of Malaysia in 16 September 1963, the federal government of Malaysia began to built a road network system connecting Sarawak to Sabah, known as Pan Borneo Highway.

[edit] Federal road standards

The total length of federal roads is 49,935 km

Federal routes are labeled with only numbers for example Federal Route 1 while state routes are labeled with the state code letter followed by assigned numbers, for example Route J32 is a Johor state road. Both federal and state roads have blue road signs and the text colour is white.

For more information, please refer to Road signs in Malaysia articles.

Most of the federal roads in Malaysia are 2-lane roads. Malaysia implements a right-hand driving system where drivers drive on the left side of the road. However, there are in certain places where additional lanes are available. In town areas, federal roads may become 4-lane roads to increase traffic capacity. In hilly areas, additional third climbing lane is available for slower vehicles such as buses and lorries.

Some federal roads may have motorcycle lanes. On Malaysian federal roads, the motorcycle lanes are placed at the extreme left side of each direction and only separated from the main lanes by black-and-white stripes to enable motorcyclists to overtake slower motorcycles and to turn right to exit the road.

Some expressways in Malaysia such as Federal Highway and Skudai Highway are federally funded, therefore all federally funded expressways are also classified as federal roads.

[edit] Federal road maintainances

Before early 2000, the Malaysian federal roads have maintained by Public Works Department. And began on 2000, the main contractors and mantainances company have responsibility to maintained all federal roads in Malaysia.

  • Northern region - Belati Wangsa (M) Sdn Bhd
  • Central and east coast region - Roadcare (M) Sdn Bhd
  • Southern region - Selia Selenggara (M) Sdn Bhd
  • Sabah region -
  • Sarawak region - Cahaya Mata Sarawak ( CMS ) Sdn Bhd

[edit] Safety

[edit] Speed limits

The default speed limit and National Speed Limits is 90 km/h, but in town areas the speed limit is reduced to 60 km/h. Speed traps is also deployed by the Malaysian police at many places along the federal roads.

[edit] Accidents

Malaysian federal roads are always sites of most of the road accidents in Malaysia, especially during festive seasons.

[edit] List of accident-prone areas in Malaysian federal roads

[edit] During festive seasons

During festive seasons such as Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Deepavali, Christmas and Chinese New Year, activities such as construction, road repairs and maintenance works have been stopped. A massive nationwide operation known as Ops Sikap are held annualy by the Malaysian police to ensure safety on all roads in Malaysia during festive seasons.

[edit] Natural hazards

The Public Works Department has monitored all federal roads in Malaysia and make sure that no landslides, flash floods and other natural hazards may happen again.

[edit] List of landslide-prone areas

[edit] List of flash floods-prone areas

[edit] Malaysian federal roads as a part of Asian Highway Network

Asian Highway Network is an international project between Asian nations to develop their highway systems which will form the main routes in the Asian Highway network. There are 2 Asian Highway routes passing through Malaysia - Asian Highway Route 2 and Asian Highway Route 18.

The Malaysian section of Route AH2 consists of:-

The Malaysian section of Route AH18 consists of:-

[edit] List of federal roads

[edit] Peninsular Malaysia

[edit] Sarawak

(see Pan Borneo Highway)

[edit] Sabah

  • A1: Kota Kinabalu - Tamparuli - Kudat
  • A2: Kota Kinabalu - Lawas (Sarawak)
  • A3:
  • A4: Tamparuli - Ranau - Sandakan
  • A5: Route A4 (Sandakan) - Lahad Datu - Tawau

(Source:Public Works Deparment Malaysia (JKR))

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Useful links

[edit] See also
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