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| SMART’s grand vision for a new future for Kuala Lumpur is becoming an imminent reality.
The ingenious SMART Project is a stormwater channel and motorway passage merged into a single tunnel. Completed in May 2007, SMART has put Malaysia on the map of international engineering feats.
Innovative and cost-effective solution
SMART is an innovative and cost-effective solution that addresses two distinct problems in Kuala Lumpur: major floods caused by heavy rains during the monsoon season and severe traffic congestion along city streets during peak hours.
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1. No storm, low rainfall
No flood water will be diverted into the SMART system.
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2. Moderate storm
The SMART system will be activated and flood water will be diverted into the bypass tunnel in the lower channel of the motorway. Up to this point, the motorway will still be open to traffic.
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3. Major storm
The SMART system will be activated and the motorway will be closed to traffic. Sufficient time will be allocated to allow the last vehicle to exit the motorway before the automated watertight gates are opened to allow flood water in. The motorway will be re-opened to traffic within 48 hours.
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| The SMART system will divert flood water from entering the critical stretch of Sungai Ampang and Sungai Klang via a holding pond, bypass tunnel and storage reservoir. The stormwater tunnel between the holding pond and the storage reservoir is about 9.7 km long and runs beneath the city limits, mostly under public roads.
Three kilometres of this tunnel will double-up as a motorway. Convenient ingress and egress ramps at each end of the motorway will direct traffic into and out of the motorway from the existing and congested stretches of Jalan Tun Razak and Kuala Lumpur-Seremban highway.
For more information on SMART, please visit www.smarttunnel.com.my |
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| Gamuda is one of Malaysia's leading engineering and construction company, with civil, infrastructure and township projects and investments in South East and Far East Asia, Indochina, South Asia and the Middle East. |
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