Skudai Highway

Malaysia road routebox
code= JKR|1
road= 1
length-km= 29
direction= North - South
start= Senai
destinations= Senai International Airport Airport signs
Skudai
Tampoi
Woodlands (Singapore)
end= Johor Bahru
construction-date= 1983
completion-date= 1985
junctions= MES-E|3Second Link Expressway
JKR|16 Senai Airport Highway
MES-E|2 AHN-AH|2 North-South Expressway Southern Route
JKR|5 Skudai-Pontian Highway
JKR|17 Pasir Gudang Highway
JKR|J1 Johor Bahru West Coast Parkway
JKR|188 Johor Bahru Inner Ring Road
JKR|3 AHN-AH|18 Tebrau Highway
Asian Highway Network=AHN-AH|2
(Skudai Interchange - Johor Bahru)

:"See also: Johor Bahru West Coast Parkway."

Skudai Highway "(Lebuhraya Skudai)", also known as Senai Highway (Lebuhraya Senai) Jalan Tun Abdul Razak or Jalan Skudai, Federal route JKR|1 (Asian Highway Network AHN-AH|2 sections from Skudai Interchange to Johor Bahru) is a 29 kilometre partial-access highway in Johor, Malaysia, from the town of Senai to the Johor-Singapore Causeway, which connects Malaysia and Singapore. In Singapore, the causeway connects with Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE). The highway is also a part of Federal Route JKR|1 and also a part of the Johor Bahru expressway network.

Opened to traffic in 1985, Skudai Highway used to be a tolled highway until March 2004 when the federal government decided to abolish the Senai toll plaza. Previously, the concession of the highway was held by PLUS Expressway Berhad as a part of the North-South Expressway project. Today, only the Johor Causeway Toll Plaza is still in operation for Singaporean motorists, and the highway is now administered by Malaysian Public Works Department.

Skudai Highway was originally a four-lane highway (two in each direction) but the stretch from Bandar Baru Uda to Skudai has been widened to six lanes in 2001 to enable the highway to handle higher traffic capacity.

Current development

The Tampoi North Interchange has been upgraded to a Double U-Turn interchange. Construction began in 2005 and was completed in 2008. Meanwhile, Skudai North junctions between route JKR|1 and JKR|5 has been upgraded to trumpet interchanges. Construction began in 2005 and was completed on August 2007.

List of interchanges and junctions

See also

* Federal route 1
* Johor-Singapore Causeway
* North-South Expressway
* Malaysian Federal Roads system
* Malaysian expressway system

External links

* [http://www.plus.com.my Plus Expressway Berhad]
* [http://www.jkr.gov.my Department of Works, Malaysia]
* [http://www.llmnet.gov.my Malaysian Highway Authority]