QUOTE(robert82 @ May 14 2014, 10:40 PM)
to be honest, it might still be tricky unless the main road is enlarged.
At the moment, the main road is already bottleneck / overcapacity.
One may say that the Lekas exit will relieve the traffic, yes undoubtly true, but the additional residents brought in by EM will strain the main road as well.
Unless the commercial area is completed and shifted some business away from the main road, it will forever jam.
No doubt it can grow to be a bigger town, but to grow beyond that, it requires more effort to solve the effort.
A good example can be Seri Kembangan town, main road super jam until recently it was changed to one way and then I think it relieves the traffic a lot.
Robert gor, Boleh land always like that, just try to solve the current problem, no foresee for future requirement.. Whenever there is more requirement, then they will build some extra to ease the condition, after sometime, when the population growth, problem will arise again.
Jalan Semenyih 7-8 years ago mostly are single lane, already jam for quite sometime. After MKH set up Pelangi Semenyih in 2008, the jam become more severe, then only MPKJ try to widen the road near Kajang East, current location of McD and some additional area. The traffic ease for a while, however, when there are more phases coming in to Pelangi Semenyih 1 and starting of Pelangi Semenyih 2, jam problem arise again and become more severe. It used to be only jammed in Semenyih town in peak period, but now has been dragged till the widen road that near to the traffic light of Pelangi Semenyih. No more space for road widening..
That's a good timing when SPS purchase the land in Semenyih and promise to build a direct link to Lekas, with the hope to ease the traffic going to the Semenyih town. Lekas currently still very much under utilized, but starting to notice the car number increment. Nobody will know whether lekas can sustain the requirement 5 years from now, when there are many houses in SEH and EM are in the VP stage. I heard LDP in Puchong also only can sustain about 5 years before reaching the congested stage.
When Semenyih develop to more mature stage, I presume more connecting roads will be built as well. In fact, I am looking forward to the expressway that will connect EM to Putra mahkota and hence to NSE. I am hoping this connecting road can be completed during the VP of EM, as this will definitely divert some traffic to NSE too..