3-lane Petagas-Lok Kawi carriageway: 

Work to start

Published on: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 by Daily Express

Kota Kinabalu: The Petagas-Lok Kawi road will be upgraded to a three-lane carriageway starting early April so as to ease traffic congestion there, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Yahya Hussin.

He said the Federal-funded upgrading project would cost RM136.2 million and expected to be completed in October, 2015. "The additional lane is hoped to overcome the serious congestion," he said at the leader-with-people session in Petagas. 

The upgrading project, he said, would also involve the construction of a pedestrian overhead bridge in front of the Putatan train station.

He said the traffic congestion along the Putatan road is getting too serious that the residents' daily activities have been greatly affected.

"It is for this reason that we have to widen the road so as to solve the problem," he said.
He blamed the traffic congestion on rapid development in Putatan under the Barisan Nasional (BN) Government.

However, the three-lane carriageway, he said, is proof of the BN's concern over the problem faced not only by residents but also motorists going through the stretch.

In another development he said the government will be constructing a new school, SMK Petagas very soon.

The new school, he said, is to accommodate the influx of students in secondary schools.


There are two secondary schools in Putatan namely SMK Putatan and SMK Tansau.