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Prolintas clinches RM11.5b deals
SHAREN KAURPublished: 2013/11/30

CONCESSION AGREEMENTS: Company inks pact for DASH, SUKE highway projects in Klang Valley.




PROJEK Lintasan Kota Sdn Bhd (Prolintas) has inked concession agreements (CAs) for two Klang Valley highway projects worth an estimated RM11.5 billion.

Agreements were inked last month for the Damansara-Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (DASH) and the Sungai Besi-Ulu Klang Elevated Expressway (SUKE), says Works Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusof.

Construction and land acquisition costs for DASH is estimated to be RM4.18 billion and RM880 million, respectively.

For SUKE, the construction cost and land acquisition cost is expected to be about RM4.3 billion and RM1.14 billion, respectively.

Prolintas, the country's second biggest highway concessionaire, is a unit of Permodalan Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's biggest fund manager.

It operates and manages the Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway, Guthrie Corridor Expressway and Kemuning-Shah Alam Highway.

DASH and SUKE were awarded to Prolintas under the build-operate-transfer concept.

Fadillah said although land acquisition for both projects is ongoing, Prolintas will have to meet the conditions precedent before it could commence construction.

The conditions include details such as the financial aspect and technical capability of the company, and all reports pertaining to public consultation.

"Prolintas has 12 months, from the date of signing the CAs, to comply with the conditions precedent. Go or no go for the projects will depend on whether Prolintas comply with the conditions precedent.

"There will be a special committee to analyse the details and reports. If they can fulfil all the terms and conditions, they can start early. Otherwise, it will be 12 months from now," Fadillah told Business Times.

Fadillah said Prolintas has given his ministry the initial documents for both projects, which include questionnaires to have a public consultation.

"DASH and SUKE will help ease traffic congestion in certain places. However, I do not want to guarantee that it will be a total solution as there will still be bottlenecks along certain stretches.

"The first told plaza, especially, will have a bottleneck. The second bottleneck will be entry into the city and out during peak hours. We are looking at improvements.

A total solution would mean integrating all new highways with public transportation, including the LRT and MRT," he said.

DASH



SUKE

just build a highway above a highway.. the upper one with less interchanges...

Fuuuu...

i thought residents along the route are protesting ?

not along, just mutiara damansara.
BTW i'm not agree on that part too.

I think better stop building somemore HW.

Ain't better use that money for MRT or LRT?

Or a HW for Sabah and Sarawak?

coz HW concession can earn more money. have to feed the cronies.

tolong la ada good signage. all the current signage on most highways let it be new or old leads me somewhere else,other than my destination !

concession how many centuries?

all i see are tolls everywhere

SUKE
DUKE

Are they getting interest-free loans from the government as well?

and the agreements will last a hundred years or so. after the concessionaire nearly finish, make it longer again, cronies reap profits yoh.

Highways will support not only cars but bus rapid transit.

In 2010, Selangor saw 25% increase in labour force. Very explosive population growth due to inter state migration. Thats equivalent to 10% of sabah sarawak population moving to selangor

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Nov 30 2013, 11:24 PM

Not all highways support BRT. In the plan, only Kidex (Kinrara-Damansara Expressway) might have something to do with proposed Kinrara-Damansara BRT.

in the long run. one of any highway lanes can be converted to bus lane only.

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Nov 30 2013, 11:27 PM

The number of roads will never beat the number of cars

I fully support DASH to help ease current NKVE traffic which is getting really bad nowadays.

Waze kan ada

more tolls inkambing...

More money wasted....

wonder what is the toll rate? If I'm from Denai Alam going towards Midvalley using penchala link then sprint hwy. I think my toll per way almost RM10. How to sustain this kind of life in malaysia?

Let me guess, awarded by direct tender again?

go mid valley with dash, penchala link and sprint was a waste. unless you really want to beat the traffic jam.

the good thing is from denai alam to penchala link only need 1 dash toll, so i think around rm7

yup... beat the jam. Time is money mah.... woh... but use too much money to buy time.

do you mind to share what is your current routine path, time (go and back) and duration?

I notice there is two toll plaza according to the map.
one for RRIM and the other one for mutiara damansara. Have they change the plan ?

But 1 toll rm7 ???

according to study, the design was 2+1 toll, means max only 2 toll.
of course this may change.
from the plan, denai alam toll and mutiara toll was must (means that max from u10)
PRIM toll only paid for exit persiaran surian, jalan sungai buloh and jalan lapangan subang, plus kwasa damansara too.

i just estimate the cost by multiply twice for penchala link rm2, kerinchi link rm1.5 = rm3.5 ~15km

Highway will promote car usage, car usage will go up, traffic jams will not be reduce.

MRT/LRT/Whatever will promote public transport usage, car usage will go down, traffic jam can be reduce.

i think the contributor towards car usage is cheap gas, despite our expensive car price, our petrol is 7th cheapest in the world.

SUKE SUKE, saya SUKE lah ada banyak highway ni

Cheap gas or not, there are lot of place not reachable by public transport, too much of a hassle (switching LRT/bus many times) or just plain slow (traffic jam). Alot of people drive to work it is neccessity, not luxury.

This post has been edited by kalandra: Dec 3 2013, 04:10 PM

it is a catch 22. take bus transportation for example, the cause of inconsistent schedule is because buses get stuck in traffic jams. even if Rapid adds more buses, the problem only gets compounded as more buses contribute to the jam. due to inconsistent schedule, less people take public transport, especially since we have cheap petrol. and that means rapid is less likely to add new routes cause demand isn't there.

i think luxury is a significant part why people drive. in developed countries, white collar workers waking at 5AM is normal because they need to take the early bus. in malaysia some ppl do enjoy luxury of waking up after 7-8 and still making it to their office cause they can use their cars.

in any case, I don't think highways contribute to the problem when it can be used for BRT (e.g. bus only lane).

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Dec 3 2013, 04:46 PM

turun rumah, can go straight to sg besi and go to johor..err, why the heck I wanna go to johor?

If public transport is sufficient to take you from point A to point B, driving is a luxury. I know plenty of friends who drive because they have to, not because they don't want to take public transport. And alot of them try leave early, example : leaving home before 6.30am and reaching office at 7.15am even when work start at 8.30am to avoid the traffic jam.

I know ppl who work near lrt station tat stillddrive. I know couple of folks who stop carpooling cause no flexibility, tho arrangement is functional

I dun think there are only 1 group. Some drive for luxury while others drive for necessity. Which 1 bigger can be debated. But if u can encourage the luxury drivers to use public ( e.g. PR is talking about state funded free bus tickets like GO KL as an incentive), then there will be demand increase for more public transport (e.g. rapid increase more bus and routes) which hopefully will get more of the necessity drivers using public as well (e.g. since more routes, they can functionally use buses)

This post has been edited by coolsarawak: Dec 4 2013, 11:14 AM

Oh you mean 2 ways in total rm7. I thought one toll one way rm7

In this case from denai alam to kl city is not going to be cheap then.

one way la, brother

penchala link rm2
kerinchi link rm1.5

so i estimate rm3.5 for the dash highway (2 dash toll) *based on current gce rate too

of course from denai alam only 1 toll

This post has been edited by elmond: Dec 4 2013, 12:41 PM