Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has announced that the plan to implement a upstream arrangement involving several roads in Petaling Jaya will be permanently canceled from April 19, Star report.
The decision not to proceed with the plan was made after the trial run. In February, the council announced that from March 1, it would begin closing some roads and intersections from 5pm to 7:30pm on weekdays to check for the opposite route. in a period of three months.
Related roads and intersections are the Jalan Othman–Jalan Templer intersection, the Jalan Gasing–Jalan Templer intersection, the Jalan Templer–Jalan 6/29 intersection and any median opening on Jalan Templer.
During the test, motorists traveling from Jalan Gasing to Jalan Othman were asked to use Jalan Changgai 6/22 or Jalan Anak Gasing 6/5-Jalan Tinggi 6/12-Jalan Selangor, while those traveling from the Jalan Othman direction to the New Pantai Expressway (NPE) are required to make a U-turn at the Assunta hospital roundabout.
The newspaper previously reported Rajiv Rishyakaran, a lawmaker for Bukit Gasing, said that on that day, one of the test runs resulted in severe congestion at the Assunta roundabout, with riders vehicles must make an illegal U-turn at the median along Jalan Templer Road.
