Agreed. I have study the traffic flow since I started driving to work 10 years ago. Almost every year I need to advance my time to go out to work despite the I changed few companies and the latest workplace was just 15km away taking me 1 hour to arrive. I stay at batu caves and I need to use jalan kuching to reach my workplace. 10 years ago I depart to work at 7.30am and reach office about 8am (company in jalan ipoh nearby dynasty hotel), then work at damansara height I need to go out at 7.20 then become 7.15, 7.05, 6.55 and now comes to 6.45am. The jalan kuching become so much congested due to additional junctions in recent years and there was no additional highway to reach KL (I willing to pay toll if it can shorten my time by 20-30 minutes). So people like me is so much hope to have highway at highly congested traffic areas.

Okay, many people claim how poor the existing public transport either buses or train services. In fact there are two KTM stations nearby batu caves and mastiara, but the usage of these 2 stations were way too low despite having the stations for few years. I believe because people work at different areas and KTM likely not able to reach or it has to take few transit train to bus to reach office. Real example, my ex-colleague who working at 1U bandar utama and she was staying at Setapak. Early morning 6.30am she need to walk to LRT station and take LRT reach kelana jaya. After arrive she has to take public bus from Kelana Jaya to 1U. The total journey take her at least 1.30 hour (waiting time and commuting time). Finish work at 6pm she always take more than 2 hours to reach home as it was peak than morning hour the crowd. After 2 years she decided to drive car to office which took her around 1 hour to office and back home about 1.30 hour. She save total 1 hour at least and sitting in relax (standing inside bus and train mostly).

In fact the public transport coverage is getting better compare to a decade ago but still many people choose to take their own drive reason being taking public transport may not save time, save money and sometimes more danger. There are several cases happen where people getting robbed or kidnapped at bus station in early morning or late night. Security is really a big issue especially for lady who waited at bus station alone. Therefore there are many things the government need to do to ease the traffic such as better security, education to youngster to use public transport more often (those who used to drive hardly change to take public transport), improve coverage and connection between buses and train and so on.

But until then more highway please (quoted yours, hehe). If I used the highway then I pay toll, fair trade but the toll rate must be reasonable la. hehe

This post has been edited by autodriver: Jul 30 2015, 10:02 PM

Yes, I completely agreed with you because I was study college in KBU bandar utama 12 years ago. At that point of time the traffic of LDP is considered smooth though there was little traffic after the toll from Kepong. Damansara Perdana is completely forest and at early of 2000s the development of mutiara damansara has started. The Kota Damansara at that time the postcode was still under sungai buloh and no development at all at Giza mall till mutiara damansara. The access to KD is only from sungai buloh or jalan tanjung behind bandar utama.

With more development over the place of KD, MD and DP, the road has been widen and also penchala link highway take place to ease the highly growth areas. That is the reason why the developers keep developing the areas due to various access roads.

So place like puncak perdana, denai alam, puncak alam, saujana utama etc are also similar situation to KD, MD and DP a decade ago. Therefore the need of highway to ease the burden especially persiaran mokhtar dahari is necessary. Before LDP the road was only 2 lanes of each direction but now LDP is considered as highway and due to booming areas there are multiple interchange connected such as penchala link, sprint (plus highway), MRR2 and federal highway.

So DASH need highway to access to KL or PJ, if the elevated highway road is too close to residence area or the corner is too sharp which may cause accident, then prolintas should do re-alignment to avoid these issues. But re-alignment and removal is completely different thing. Those protesters are demanding permanent removal DASH from KD, MD and DP but there was no revised route provided. The DASH purpose is to connect penchala link (so far still consider under usage), MRR2 and sprint highway.

Since there was MRT and LRT services in PJ areas, they have other option such as take MRT or public buses to workplace. As I know DASH is crossing those places which have very least public commuters, that's why these areas need highway.

By the way people in KD, MD and DP, I bet you guys unlikely take MRT even though the MRT station completed in future as most of you still drive own car. Somemore you guys are always talk about high standard of living and every household own at least 1 or 2 cars and generally earning more compare to rural areas.

DASH is confirmed only the last mile at damansara perdana got issue. The last mile should be re-aligned but not remove because the purpose of last station is direct connect to penchala link and access to KL.