Johor Bahru – Kota Tinggi Highway

Johor Bahru-Kota Tinggi Highway (Malay: Lebuhraya Johor Bahru-Kota Tinggi), Federal Route AH18, also known as Tebrau Highway (Jalan Tebrau) and Jalan Kota Tinggi is a highway that encompasses federal route in Johor Bahru. The highway stretches from its southern end at Jalan Wong Ah Fook and Jalan Tun Abdul Razak in the metropolitan area of Johor Bahru to the northern end at the underpass flyover with North-South Expressway Southern Route around Pandan. The stretch of Tebrau Highway after this continues as Jalan Pandan and Jalan Kota Tinggi respectively, beyond Pandan.

History

The highway was initially a trunk road. It was later widened into six lane dual-carriageway, and upgraded during the 1980s. The section between Johor Jaya to Ulu Tiram were upgraded in 1995. Traffic is usually heavy during working hours. No proposal of upgrading of Tebrau Highway at this stages whatsoever.

Completed developments

Upgrading of the Johor Jaya Interchange

In 2003, the government has doled in more money to construct a new flyover at Johor Jaya complex Interchange. At the complex interchange, the road (Jalan Pandan) leads on uphill some 50–100 metres away northwards from the interchange. The construction of the interchange has elevated the highway directly from the point north of the interchange.

From 2006 onwards, travellers travelling northward would have to turn into a road which connects carrefour before joining the highway after the interchange. Travellers coming from Jalan Masai Bahru would have to take the flyover which connects with Tebrau Highway, and travelling northbound without diverting into the road connecting carrefour would ultimately lead to vehicles turning off into Jalan Masai Lama.

After several delays of the project to cause criticism from public, this interchange finally completed its construction on June 2007 and open for public use.

Upgrading of the Ulu Tiram-Kota Tinggi road into dual-carriageway

Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan Project and Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA), the main road between Ulu Tiram and Kota Tinggi will be upgraded into dual-carriageway. This include the construction of Ulu Tiram Interchange and some bridges along the road. The project had been started since March 2009, expect to be completed by 2011.

Features

Features of the highway include BLSS LED traffic lights from control centre, variable message system and traffic CCTV.

List of interchanges and junctions

See also

• Federal Route 3
• Malaysian expressway system
• Malaysian Federal Roads system