The Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) will deploy emergency response teams (ERTs) at 12 strategic locations in preparation for this year’s Hari Raya Aidilfitri festive season, and it will also activate 873 CCTV cameras nationwide for the monitoring of traffic flow, New Straits Times has reported.
The measures are part of LLM’s measures in anticipation of the traffic volume increase, which is expected to reach up to 3.5 million vehicles during the festive period, said LLM director-general Datuk Mohd Hadzmir Yusoff. ERTs will be deployed in collaboration with the police, fire and rescue department, the road transport department (JPJ) and ambulance services in order to ensure swift responses to any incidents, he said.
“Closed-ciruit television monitoring enables traffic control centres to quickly detect congestion, accidents or breakdowns before relaying information to road users via 277 digital signboards along the highways,” Hadzmir said.
The Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) expects the peak, 3.5-million vehicle volume to consist of 2.3 million vehicles on PLUS highways, the West Coast Expressway (215,000 vehicles), the KL-Karak Highway (210,000 vehicles) and the East Coast Expressway LPT1 (106,000 vehicles) and LPT2 (65,000 vehicles).
For connecting highways, the Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (DUKE) is projected to record 295,000 vehicles, the Kajang-Seremban Expressway (LEKAS) with 159,000 vehicles, and the Kuala Lumpur-Kuala Selangor Expressway (LATAR) with 135,000 vehicles.
The director-general of LLM also said that all concessionaires have been instructed to ensure that there are no lane closures except for emergencies from today until March 30, and that PLUS Malaysia will activate Smart Lanes at 34 locations.
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