Kajang–Seremban Highway

2°48′35.2″N 101°54′24″E

Kajang–Seremban Highway
Kajang–Seremban Highway (Lekas Highway)
Route information
Maintained by Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban Sdn. Bhd. (Lekas)
Length	44.3 km (27.5 mi)
Existed	2002–present
History	Completed in 2009
Major junctions
North end	Kajang Perdana Interchange Kajang, Selangor
Major intersections	Template:JKR Kajang Bypass Template:MES-E Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway Template:JKR Federal Route 1 Template:JKR Jalan Banting–Semenyih Template:JKR Jalan Nilai–Pajam Template:JKR Federal Route 86 Template:JKR Federal Route 51 Template:JKR Persiaran Senawang 1
South end	Paroi Interchange Paroi, Negeri Sembilan
Location
Country	Malaysia
Primary destinations	Kuala Lumpur Cheras Kajang Semenyih Pajam Nilai Mantin Temiang Kuala Klawang Seremban City Centre Ampangan Senawang
Highway system
Highways in Malaysia Expressways Federal State

The Kajang–Seremban Highway, KASEH Template:MES-E (Malay: Lebuhraya Kajang–Seremban), or LEKAS Highway, is an expressway in Malaysia connecting Kajang, Selangor to Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. The speed limits on the expressway are 80 km/h (50 mph) for the Kajang Perdana–Kajang South and Setul–Paroi sections, and 110 km/h (68 mph) for all other sections.

Overview

The 44.3 km (27.5 mi) expressway is designed to pass through Semenyih, Pajam, Mantin, Temiang and link to the Seremban Inner Ring Road. It serves as an effective traffic dispersal for the highly congested Kajang in Selangor to Seremban in Negeri Sembilan besides the North–South Expressway Southern Route and the Kuala Lumpur–Seremban Expressway.

• The highway project has achieved several stages of completion.
• "Package 1A" from the SILK Interchange to Kajang South has been completed and opened to the public.
• "Package 1B" from the Kajang Selatan Interchange to Pajam Interchange, earthworks and major drainage have been completed.
• "Packages 2A and 3" from Pajam Interchange to Paroi, all land acquisitions have been completed. Part of the alignment between Mantin Interchange and Setul Interchange has been approved for realignment.

Route background

The Kilometre Zero of the expressway starts right after the Exit 1804 Kajang Perdana Interchange which connects the expressway with the E18 Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway and the Kajang Bypass near Kajang, Selangor.

History

The project was approved by the government in 1997 and the construction of the expressway began on 2002; however, the financial problems faced by the original concessionnaire, Kajang–Seremban Highway Sdn. Bhd. (Kaseh) had forced the construction works to be delayed. The project was revitalized in November 2006 after a takeover by a new concessionnaire, Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban Sdn. Bhd. (Lekas), which 50% of the stake was held by IJM Corporation Berhad and the rest of the stake was held by the original concessionnaire, Kajang–Seremban Highway Sdn. Bhd. This project was scheduled for completion by December 2009.

Phase 1 of the expressway connecting Kajang South to Pajam was officially opened on 23 August 2008. The main subcontractor was WCT, which then subcontracted the beam-manufacturing to Mudajaya. As a normal procedure to allow users to familiarize with the highway, the highway will be toll free for a month from opening.

The highway system was extended with the opening of Mantin toll plaza on 31 December 2008. Again, the main subcontractor was WCT, and the beam-manufacturer was Mudajaya. Most of the shorter beams like the Ms and Inverted Ts were manufactured at Mudajaya's production plant in Ijok, Selangor, whilst the longer and more "treacherous" I-beams were produced on the site itself. As per normal practice, the route was toll free until 30 January 2009.

On 1 March 2010, the Setul and Ampangan Interchange opened for traffic.

Features

• Six-lane carriageway from Kajang to Setul.
• Medium to high speed limits of 80 km/h (Kajang Perdana–Kajang South and Setul–Paroi) and 110 km/h (all other sections).
• A SOS emergency phone.
• The Setul toll plaza is the highest toll plaza in Malaysia located at the hilly top of Gunung Mantin-Seremban at 258 metres above sea level.

Notable events

Pajam Incident

On 27 September 2007, at around 11:45 pm, eight massive I-20Template:Expand acronym beams (each weighing close to 70 tonnes) collapsed at BR 7Template:Expand acronym (approximately Ch.16,400),Template:Expand acronym just about a kilometre from the Pajam Interchange. There were no casualties recorded. In the three months following the incident, the contractor constructed a 4 km. public by-pass road circumnavigating the BR 7 launch site, from the Federal Route FT3265, to the Pajam Interchange, then onto the Pajam Toll Plaza, and coming out again at FT3265 nearer to the town of Nilai, recast the eight I-20 beams, and then re-launched them. There were no public funds involved in the repair work, and all costs were borne by the contractor. The BR 7 is now in service, and is part of the LEKAS Highway.

Other events

• 17 April 2010 – Achik Spin (real name Abdillah Murad Md Shari), vocalist of the Malaysian rock band Spin, died in a car accident on the Kajang–Seremban Highway near Pajam, Negeri Sembilan.
• 3 May 2020 – At around 2:11 am, Koperal Safwan Muhammad Ismail, aged 31, died when he crashed into an Op COVID-19 roadblock near the Kajang Selatan toll plaza.

Toll systems

As part of an initiative to facilitate faster transactions at all toll plazas, all toll transactions on the Kajang–Seremban Highway have been conducted electronically via Touch 'n Go cards or SmartTAGs since 2 March 2016. This is the first closed toll expressway to phase out the closed toll system.

Toll rates

(Since 1 January 2023)

Between Kajang Selatan and Setul toll plazas

Class	Type of vehicles	Rate (in Malaysian Ringgit (RM)) up to
0	Motorcycles (Vehicles with two axles and two wheels)	Free
1	Private Cars (Vehicles with two axles and three or four wheels (excluding taxis and buses))	5.50
2	Vans and other small goods vehicles (Vehicles with two axles and five or six wheels (excluding buses))	8.25
3	Large Trucks (Vehicles with three or more axles (excluding buses))	11.00
4	Taxis	2.75
5	Buses	3.69

Ampangan toll plaza

Class	Type of vehicles	Rate (in Malaysian Ringgit (RM))
0	Motorcycles (Vehicles with two axles and two wheels)	Free
1	Private Cars (Vehicles with two axles and three or four wheels (excluding taxis and buses))	2.30
2	Vans and other small goods vehicles (Vehicles with two axles and five or six wheels (excluding buses))	3.50
3	Large Trucks (Vehicles with three or more axles (excluding buses))	4.70
4	Taxis	1.20
5	Buses	1.50

List of interchanges

Km	Exit	Interchange	To	Remarks
			North Template:JKR Kajang Bypass Saujana Impian Cheras–Kajang Expressway Cheras-Kajang Expressway Kuala Lumpur Cheras
		Kajang Perdana Interchange	Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway Kajang Dispersial Link Expressway Northeast Template:MES-E Sungai Long Template:MES-E Balakong Template:MES-E Sungai Besi Template:MES-E Seri Kembangan Southwest Template:MES-E Kuala Lumpur Template:MES-E AH 2 Seremban Template:MES-E AH 2 Johor Bahru Template:MES-E Putrajaya Template:JKR Cyberjaya Template:MES-E AH 2 Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Template:Airport signs	Cloverleaf interchange
Template:JKR Kajang Bypass JKR border limit
Kajang–Seremban Highway Kajang–Seremban Highway Start/End of expressway LEKAS border limit
Template:MES-E 0
	2101A 2101B	Kajang South Interchange	2101B Northwest Template:JKR Kajang town centre 2101A Southeast Template:JKR Rinching Template:JKR Semenyih	Full cloverleaf interchange
		Template:Parking Layby signs Kajang South toll plaza KJS	Template:Parking signs Template:Toilet sign Template:Surau sign Template:Wakaf sign Template:TnG TAG	Kajang bound
Kajang South toll plaza KJS Template:TnG Template:TAG MyRFID Template:TAG Template:TnG Closed toll system Collect transit card and pay a distance toll
	2102	Semenyih Interchange	Template:JKR Semenyih Template:JKR Beranang Template:JKR Bangi Template:JKR Dengkil Setia EcoHill	Trumpet interchange with toll plaza
		Sungai Semenyih bridge
		Sungai Rinching bridge
		Sungai Kembong bridge
	2102A	Eco Majestic Interchange	Eco Majestic Template:JKR Beranang	Trumpet interchange with toll plaza
		Sungai Beranang bridge
		Template:RSA-OBR signs Beranang Rest and Service Area (abandoned except surau and toilet)	Template:Parking signs Template:Toilet sign Template:Food court sign Template:Surau sign Template:Wakaf sign Template:Telephone sign	North bound
		Template:RSA-OBR signs Beranang Rest and Service Area (abandoned except surau and toilet)	Template:Parking signs Template:Toilet sign Template:Food court sign Template:Surau sign Template:Wakaf sign Template:Telephone sign	South bound
Selangor Darul Ehsan Hulu Langat district border
Selangor-Negeri Sembilan border
Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus Seremban district border
		Sungai Batang Benar bridge
	2103	Pajam Interchange	Template:JKR Pajam Template:JKR Nilai Template:JKR Sepang Template:JKR Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Template:Airport signs North–South Expressway Southern Route AH 2 North-South Expressway Southern Route Kuala Lumpur Johor Bahru	Trumpet interchange with toll plaza
		Sungai Pajam bridge
	2104	Mantin Interchange MTN	Template:JKR Mantin Template:JKR(N) Lenggeng	Trumpet interchange with toll plaza
		Sungai Bangkung bridge 230 m above sea level
Template:MES-E --		240 m above sea level
Template:MES-E --		250 m above sea level
Setul toll plaza STL 258 m above sea level (Highest toll plaza in Malaysia) Template:TnG Template:TAG MyRFID Template:TAG Template:TnG Closed toll system Collect transit card and pay a distance toll
		Template:Parking Layby signs Setul toll plaza STL 258 m above sea level	Template:Parking signs Template:Toilet sign Template:Surau sign Template:Wakaf sign Template:TnG TAG	Paroi bound Highest toll plaza in Malaysia
		Setul viaduct 250 m above sea level
	2105	Setul Interchange 248 m above sea level	Template:JKR Seremban town centre Template:JKR Temiang Template:JKR Port Dickson	Directional-T interchange
Template:MES-E --		245 m above sea level		Start/End of six-lane carriageway Start/End of four-lane carriageway
		Sungai Temiang bridge 241 m above sea level
		Template:Parking Layby signs Ampangan toll plaza AMP	Template:Parking signs Template:Toilet sign Template:Surau sign Template:Wakaf sign Template:TnG TAG	Kajang bound
Ampangan toll plaza APG Template:TnG Template:TAG MyRFID Template:TAG Template:TnG Opened toll systems Pay toll
Template:MES-E --				Start/End of four-lane carriageway Start/End of six-lane carriageway
	2106	Ampangan Interchange	Northeast Template:JKR Kuala Klawang (Jelebu) Southwest Template:JKR Ampangan Template:JKR Seremban town centre Template:JKR Port Dickson	Parclo interchange
		Sungai Linggi bridge
Template:MES-E --				Start/End of six-lane carriageway Start/End of four-lane carriageway
		Taman Ampangan	Taman Ampangan Taman Bukit Ampangan Taman Margosa	LILO junctions Paroi bound
		Taman Ampangan	Taman Ampangan Taman Bukit Ampangan Taman Margosa	LILO junctions Kajang bound
	2107	Paroi Interchange	West Template:JKR Seremban City Centre Template:JKR Ampangan Template:JKR Paroi East Template:JKR Kuala Pilah Template:JKR Seri Menanti Template:JKR Ulu Bendol Recreational Forest Template:Recreation area sign	Multi-level stack interchange
Kajang–Seremban Highway Kajang–Seremban_Highway Start/End of expressway LEKAS border limit
JKR border limit
			South Template:JKR Persiaran Senawang 1 Template:JKR Senawang Template:JKR Rembau North–South Expressway Southern Route AH 2 North-South Expressway Southern Route Kuala Lumpur Johor Bahru

External links

• IJM
• LEKAS