North–South Expressway Central Link

Expressway 6
North–South Expressway Central Link (ELITE Expressway)
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Route information
Part of
Maintained by PLUS Malaysia Berhad with its subsidiary Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama Berhad (Former concessionaries known as Expressway Lingkaran Tengah Sdn Bhd (ELITE))
Length:	60 km (40 mi)
Existed:	1994 – present
History:	Completed in 1996
Major junctions
North end:	Shah Alam, Selangor
	Guthrie Corridor Expressway New Klang Valley Expressway Shah Alam Expressway Damansara-Puchong Expressway South Klang Valley Expressway Putrajaya Link KLIA Expressway North-South Expressway Southern Route
South end:	Nilai North, Negeri Sembilan
Location
Primary destinations:	Batu Tiga, UEP Subang Jaya, Putra Heights, Hicom, Puchong, Bandar Saujana Putra, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Nilai
Highway system
Highways in Malaysia Expressways Federal State

North South Expressway Central Link, NSECL , (Malay: Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan Hubungan Tengah) also known as ELITE or ELITE Expressway (Expressway Lingkaran Tengah), is the main expressway in Malaysia. The 60 km (37 mi) expressway starts from Shah Alam Interchange EXIT 601 until Nilai North Interchange EXIT 612. This expressway is still within the North South Expressway network and it is a critical link for the North-South Expressway providing northbound and southbound travelers with an uninterrupted journey bypassing the city congestion in Kuala Lumpur. The expressway is part of the Asian Highway Network of route .

Route background

The Kilometre Zero starts at Shah Alam Interchange in Shah Alam, Selangor and its interchange with the New Klang Valley Expressway and the Guthrie Corridor Expressway .

History

When the opening stages of the North-South Expressway on 1994. The new expressway bypass for the North-South Expressway in the Klang Valley was announced. Construction started on March 1994 and was completed on August 1997. The Section 1 of the North–South Expressway Central Link from Shah Alam Interchange (NKVE) to USJ (Hicom East) Interchange was opened on June 1996. On October 1997, all of the sections in the North–South Expressway Central Link and KLIA Expressway opened to traffic. When the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) was opened on 27 June 1998, it became a main route to the airport replacing the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang. The Putrajaya Link which was connected to Putrajaya was opened in 2000.

The Expressway is divided into three sections as follows :

Section 1 of the Expressway, which extends from the Shah Alam Interchange (NKVE) to the USJ (Hicom East) Interchange, inclusive of the ramps in (Ebor North) and out (Ebor South) connecting the Expressway to the Jalan Subang-Batu Tiga .

Section 2 which extends from just South of the USJ Interchange to the Nilai (North) Interchange and includes that part of the KLIA Expressway up to the bridge crossing Sg. Langat.

Section 3 includes Putrajaya Interchange, Bandar Baru Nilai Interchange, Salak Tinggi Interchange and the -2.74 km continuation of the KLIA Expressway (KLIA Expressway Extension) , just south of Sg. Langat up to the boundary of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

On September 2003, the company Expressway Lingkaran Tengah Sdn Bhd (ELITE) is now a member company of PLUS Expressways Berhad.

Features

Main features

Closed toll system (refer to PLUS)
Batu Tiga flyover longest in NSE network.
Act as bypass from bustling Kuala Lumpur travelling from north to south and vice versa.
Smooth access to KLIA
PLUS Speedway (formerly ELITE Speedway) in USJ Rest and Service Area is the first highway go-kart circuit in Malaysia
Extension to KLIA.
Safety CS Team (PROPEL) roadworks.

Batu Tiga flyover Jejambat Batu Tiga
Carries	Motor vehicles
Crosses	Section 13, Shah Alam, Batu Tiga, Federal Highway Damansara River
Locale	North-South Expressway Central Link
Official name	Batu Tiga flyover
Maintained by	PLUS Malaysia Berhad (Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama Berhad)
Characteristics
Design	box girder bridge
Total length	2 km
Width	--
Longest span	--
History
Designer	Government of Malaysia Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) United Engineers Malaysia Berhad (UEM)
Constructed by	United Engineers Malaysia Berhad (UEM)
Opened	1996

Batu Tiga flyover

The Batu Tiga flyover is the longest flyover in the North-South Expressway network. The 2 km flyover connects Shah Alam Interchange in the north until Ebor Interchange in the south.

List of Interchanges, and Rest and Service Areas

Legend:

I/C - interchange, I/S - intersection, RSA - Rest and service area, OBR - overhead bridge restaurant, L/B - layby, V/P - vista point, TN - tunnel, T/P - toll plaza, BR - bridge

State	District	km	Exit	Name	Destinations	Speed limit	Notes
Selangor	Petaling	0.0	601	Shah Alam I/C	New Klang Valley Expressway – Kuala Lumpur (Jalan Duta), Ipoh, Klang, Port Klang , Setia Alam, Subang Guthrie Corridor Expressway – Shah Alam, Bukit Jelutong, Sungai Buloh, Kuala Selangor, Rawang, Selayang	90 km/h
			BR	Batu Tiga flyover Railway crossing bridge Sungai Damansara bridge			Length: 2 km
		4.3	602	Ebor I/C (North)	Jalan Subang-Batu Tiga – HICOM Industrial Area, Shah Alam		On-ramp to southbound only
		4.5	602	Ebor I/C (South)	Jalan Subang-Batu Tiga – HICOM, Shah Alam, Batu Tiga, i-City		Off-ramp from southbound only
		5.3	603	Seafield I/C	Shah Alam Expressway – Pulau Indah , Klang, Kota Kemuning, Subang Jaya, Sri Petaling, Cheras, Kuantan
			RSA	USJ OBR & RSA	USJ OBR & RSA - Caltex, MUFORS Gallery		Southbound, accessible from both directions
			604	USJ I/C	Persiaran Klang – HICOM, Alam Megah Damansara-Puchong Expressway – USJ, Puchong
		13.2	605	Putra Heights I/C	Persiaran Putra Indah – Putra Heights, Bukit Lanchong, Alam Megah, USJ	110 km/h
	Kuala Langat		BR	Sungai Klang bridge
		17.0	606	Saujana Putra I/C	South Klang Valley Expressway – Bandar Saujana Putra, Kajang, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Banting, Telok Panglima Garang, Pulau Indah
		21.0	607	Putrajaya I/C	Putrajaya Link – Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur (Jalan Tun Razak), Multimedia University
		22.9	RSA	Dengkil RSA	Dengkil RSA - Caltex, Petronas		Northbound
		23.6	RSA	Dengkil RSA	Dengkil RSA - Petron, Shell		Southbound
	Sepang	31.6	608	KLIA I/C	KLIA Expressway – Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) , Sepang, Sepang International Circuit, Bandar Enstek
			BR	Sungai Langat bridge
			609	Dengkil I/C	Putrajaya-Cyberjaya Expressway – Dengkil, Sepang, Bandar Enstek		Planned
			BR	Railway crossing bridge
			610	Salak Tinggi I/C	B48 Jalan Besar Salak – Salak Tinggi, Dengkil, Bandar Enstek		Planned
			BR	Sungai Jenderam bridge
Negeri Sembilan	Seremban		611	Bandar Baru Nilai I/C	Labohan Dagang-Nilai Route – Bandar Baru Nilai, Nilai		Planned
Negeri Sembilan	Seremban	46.0	612	Nilai North I/C	North-South Expressway Southern Route – Kuala Lumpur, Kajang, Bangi, Nilai, Seremban, Melaka, Johor Bahru

External links

Malaysian Expressway System

History	Chronology of the Malaysian Expressway System

Interstate (Peninsula Malaysia)	North–South Expressway Northern Route (including New Klang Valley Expressway) North–South Expressway Southern Route North–South Expressway Central Link (including Putrajaya Link) (NSECL/ELITE) Kuala Lumpur – Karak Expressway and East Coast Expressway (LPT/ECE) Butterworth–Kulim Expressway (BKE) Kajang–Seremban Highway (LEKAS/KASEH) # West Coast Expressway (LPB/WCE) ^ Paroi-Senawang-KLIA Expressway (PSKE) ^ Port Dickson-Banting Expressway (PDBE) ^ Jelas Expressway (Jelas) ^ Perlis-Langkawi Bridge

Interstate (East Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan))	Tun Salahuddin Bridge # Pan Borneo Expressway

Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley and Selangor	New Klang Valley Expressway (part of the North–South Expressway Northern Route) Shah Alam Expressway (SAE/KESAS) Cheras–Kajang Expressway (CKE/Grand Saga) Besraya Expressway (BESRAYA) New Pantai Expressway (NPE) (including ^ NPE Extension Expressway) Damansara–Puchong Expressway (LDP) Ampang – Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway (AKLEH) Kemuning – Shah Alam Highway (LKSA) Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway (SILK) Maju Expressway (MEX) (Kuala Lumpur – Putrajaya Expressway (KLPE) and KL-KLIA Dedicated Expressway) Sprint Expressway (Kerinchi Link, Damansara Link and Penchala Link) Kuala Lumpur – Kuala Selangor Expressway (KLS) (Assam Jawa-Templer Park Highway (LATAR)) South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE) New North Klang Straits Bypass (NNKSB) Duta–Ulu Klang Expressway (DUKE) (including # DUKE Extension Expressway) Guthrie Corridor Expressway (GCE) East–West Link Expressway and Kuala Lumpur – Seremban Expressway Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART Tunnel) # East Klang Valley Expressway (EKVE) (Kuala Lumpur Outer Ring Road (KLORR)) # Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (DASH) ^ Sungai Besi–Ulu Klang Elevated Expressway (SUKE) * Kuala Lumpur Arah Serendah Expressway (KLAS) ^ Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya Expressway (SKIP) * Kinrara–Damansara Expressway (KIDEX)

Iskandar Malaysia and Johor	Second Link Expressway (Malaysia–Singapore Second Link) (MSSC/LINKEDUA) Johor Bahru Eastern Dispersal Link Expressway (EDL) Senai–Desaru Expressway (SDE) ^ Johor Bahru-Pasir Gudang Elevated Expressway (JOPGEX)

Penang	Butterworth Outer Ring Road (BORR) * Penang Outer Ring Road (PORR) Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge (Penang Second Bridge) Penang Bridge * Penang Undersea Tunnel

Others	Seremban – Port Dickson Highway (SPDH) ^ Malacca Strait Bridge ^ South Kedah Expressway (Lekas) D-- # Kota Bharu–Kuala Krai Expressway ^Jelas Expressway

#: under construction, ^: under planning and development, *: cancelled / postponded / on hold

PLUS Expressway Networks

North-South Expressway Northern Route and New Klang Valley Expressway North-South Expressway Southern Route Malaysia-Singapore Second Crossing and Second Link Expressway North-South Expressway Central Link and Putrajaya Link East Coast Expressway (Phase 2) Butterworth–Kulim Expressway Seremban-Port Dickson Highway Johor-Singapore Causeway Federal Highway Penang Bridge

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