Road maintenance work on all Malaysian highways halted for Hari Raya, until May 7 – works minister

Along with the upcoming Hari Raya festival days, the government has announced that all maintenance work on all highways across the country will be temporarily halted until May 7th. Bernama report.

Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi said this was to ensure that traffic would be as smooth as possible during the Aidilfitri period. “While maintenance work is needed to ensure that our motorway is at its best, we are postponing it so as not to disrupt commuters during the festival. This. That’s important,” he said.

He said the suspension of maintenance work had been agreed to by all motorway franchisees and the directive was issued after a video – which has gone viral on social media – showed severe congestion. on KL-Karak Expressway yesterday due to emergency closure and left lane for maintenance work.

Many users reported expressing dissatisfaction with having to deal with severe congestion from KM20.1 to KM30.8 on the route caused by road works and questioned why the operation was like this. so it is done in this phase.