Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway

The Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (DASH) (Malay: Lebuhraya Bertingkat Damansara–Shah Alam) E31 (or New North Klang Valley Expressway) is an expressway in Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. Estimated cost of the expressway is MYR 11.5 billion.^[1]

Expressway 31
Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway
Subang Airport and RRIM (Kwasa Damansara) Interchange of DASH from Star Avenue Lifestyle Mall, Shah Alam.
Route information
Maintained by Prolintas with its subsidiary Projek Lintasan Damansara-Shah Alam Sdn Bhd (DASH)
Existed	2015–present
History	Completed in 2022
Major junctions
East end	Penchala Interchange
Major intersections	Kota Damansara Subang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport
West end	Puncak Perdana
Location
Country	Malaysia
Highway system
Highways in Malaysia Expressways Federal State

Route background

Surian Interchange.

The zeroth kilometer is located at the Puncak Perdana U10 Shah Alam intersection. It acts a link for Puncak Perdana, Alam Suria, Denai Alam, Kampung Melayu Subang, Jalan Sungai Buloh, RRIM, Kota Damansara, Damansara Perdana and Mutiara Damansara. The expressway ends at the Penchala interchange, linking it to the Damansara–Puchong and Sprint Expressways.

Interchanges include Puncak Perdana, Alam Suria, Denai Alam, Kampung Melayu Subang, Galaksi, Subang 2, LTSAAS, RRIM, Surian, Kenanga, Mutiara Damansara and Penchala.

DASH Highway at Mutiara Damansara section going into a full-enclosure noise barrier tunnel.

History

The increasing development along the links of Shah Alam and Jalan Batu Arang (Persiaran Mokhtar Dahari) facilitated the need of increasing road capacity. So, Prolintas proposed that the expressway to be built to meet these requirements. It would not only serve as an alternative route for Persiaran Surian in Kota Damansara and to the Subang Airport, but also act as a link between east and west of Klang Valley, thus crossing over the New Klang Valley Expressway, and linking existing expressways such as the Guthrie Corridor Expressway, LDP and SPRINT. In addition, the expressway will solve congestion to the existing routes caused by the development at the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia's land in the area.

PROLINTAS held the expressway's opening ceremony at Denai Alam toll plaza on 13 October 2022, and the expressway was opened to traffic on 14 October 2022, at 12:01 AM (MST). The toll were free of charge from the officially opened date until 30 November 2022^[2][3] The project was allocated RM4.2 billion in the Budget 2015.^[4]

Incidents

• 19 June 2021 – While the expressway was under construction, a stop-work order had been issued immediately following an incident which occurred above the New Klang Valley Expressway's Kota Damansara Interchange 107. The incident involved a metal scaffolding that fell off a dozen-meter high pillar, injuring two Bangladeshi workers. The injured workers were rushed to Sungai Buloh Hospital for treatment,^[5][6] unfortunately one of them died on the following day.^[7][8] Since the crash occurred in a closed area, no motorist was injured.^[9]
• 20 October 2022 – A food delivery motorcyclist was killed after his motorcycle skidded and crashed at a highway divider through the full-enclosure noise barriers westbound from Penchala Interchange. The victim was taken to University Malaya Medical Centre for post-mortem.^[10][11]

DASH Highway heading towards Penchala interchange with the Sprint Expressway and Damansara–Puchong Expressway inside a fully-enclosure noise barrier tunnel

Tolls

DASH adopts an open toll system.

Electronic Toll Collections (ETC)

As part of an initiative to facilitate faster transactions at the Kota Damansara, Kwasa Damansara and Denai Alam Toll Plazas, all toll transactions at these three toll plazas on DASH are conducted electronically via Touch 'n Go cards or SmartTAGs beginning 1 December 2022.

Toll rates

There are three toll plazas along DASH, namely, Denai Alam, RRIM (Kwasa Damansara) and Kota Damansara, each charging at the same rate.

(Starting 1 December 2022)^[12]

Class	Type of vehicles	Rate (in Malaysian Ringgit (RM))
0	Motorcycles	Free
1	Vehicles with 2 axles and 3 or 4 wheels excluding taxis	RM 2.30
2	Vehicles with 2 axles and 5 or 6 wheels excluding buses	RM 4.60
3	Vehicles with 3 or more axles	RM 6.90
4	Taxis	RM 1.20
5	Buses	RM 2.30

List of interchanges

Main Link

Km	Exit	Interchange	To	Remarks
	3101	Puncak Perdana Interchange	B49 Persiaran Mokhtar Dahari Northwest Puncak Alam Meru Setia Alam Batu Arang Kuala Selangor East Bukit Jelutong Shah Alam Klang Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Johor Bahru	Semi directional T interchange
Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Start/End of expressway PROLINTAS border limit
	3102	Alam Suria Interchange	Sunway Alam Suria Perdana Heights Puncak Perdana UiTM Puncak Perdana Campus	Half diamond interchange. Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only.
		Denai Alam Rest and Service Area		Both directions; separated
Denai Alam toll plaza Touch 'n Go SmartTAG MyRFID SmartTAG Touch 'n Go Opened toll systems Pay toll
	3104	Denai Alam Interchange	North 3104A Guthrie Corridor Expressway Rawang Kuala Lumpur–Kuala Selangor Expressway Kuala Selangor North–South Expressway Northern Route Ipoh Northwest 3104B Persiaran Elektron Bukit Subang Denai Alam Guthrie Corridor Expressway Shah Alam Klang Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Seremban Johor Bahru	Half cloverleaf interchange. Eastbound exits and westbound entrance only.
	3105	Kampung Melayu Subang Interchange	FT 15 Jalan Sungai Buloh Kampung Melayu Subang Bandar Pinggiran Subang	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance only
	3106	Subang 2 Interchange	Subang 2	Westbound entrance only from Jalan Sungai Buloh
		RRIM Toll Plaza Interchange	East Surian Interchange	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance only
	3107		West RRIM and LTSAAS Interchanges	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance only
	3108	Surian Interchange	Persiaran Surian Northwest 3108A Jalan Teknologi Taman Sains Selangor Southeast 3108B Kota Damansara Sunway Damansara	Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only
	3108A	Seksyen 5, Kota Damansara Interchange	Persiaran Kenanga, Petaling Jaya West Kota Damansara East North–South Expressway Northern Route AH2 New Klang Valley Expressway Ipoh Kuala Lumpur Klang Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Johor Bahru	Eastbound entrance only from west
	3109	Sunway Damansara Interchange	Persiaran Mahogani Kota Damansara Desa Temuan	Eastbound entrance from north and westbound exit to south only
Kota Damansara toll plaza Touch 'n Go SmartTAG MyRFID SmartTAG Touch 'n Go Opened toll systems Pay toll
	3109A	Damansara Perdana Interchange	Jalan PJU 8/1 Damansara Bukit Lanjan	Eastbound entrance only
Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Start/End of expressway PROLINTAS border limit
	3110	Penchala Interchange	Diamond Interchange West Jalan PJU 7/9 Jalan PJU 8/1 Stacked Interchange East 3110A Sprint Expressway Penchala Link Sprint Expressway Taman Tun Dr Ismail Sprint Expressway Mont Kiara North–South Expressway Northern Route Kuala Lumpur North–South Expressway Northern Route AH2 Ipoh Duta–Ulu Klang Expressway Ampang East Coast Expressway Kuantan East Coast Expressway Genting Highlands North 3110B Damansara–Puchong Expressway Damansara-Puchong Expressway Kepong Sungai Buloh Bandar Sri Damansara South 3110C Damansara–Puchong Expressway Damansara-Puchong Expressway Petaling Jaya Puchong Putrajaya Cyberjaya Sungai Besi	Stacked expressway interchange (Dubbed as the Spaghetti junction)

Kampung Melayu–Kota Damansara Link

Km	Exit	Interchange	To	Remarks
		Pinggiran Subang Interchange	Bandar Pinggiran Subang	Eastbound entrance from Jalan Sungai Buloh and Persiaran Galaksi
Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (Kampung Melayu–Kota Damansara Link) PROLINTAS border limit
				Eastbound entrance from Jalan Sungai Buloh only
	3106	Subang Airport Interchange	South 3106A FT 15 Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Highway Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Ara Damansara Petaling Jaya Subang Jaya West 3106B FT 15 Jalan Sungai Buloh Bandar Pinggiran Subang Kampung Melayu Subang Denai Alam	Stack Interchange. Eastbound entrances (including from Persiaran Cakerawala) and westbound exits only.
	3107	Kwasa Damansara Interchange	Northeast FT 15 Batu Tiga–Sungai Buloh Highway Sungai Buloh Kuala Selangor Kepong	Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only
		RRIM Toll Plaza Interchange	West Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Main Link Puncak Alam Meru Shah Alam	Eastbound entrance and westbound exit only
		RRIM (Kwasa Damansara) Layby		Westbound
		Tri–Complex Administrative Building		Eastbound
RRIM (Kwasa Damansara) toll plaza MyRFID Touch 'n Go SmartTAG MyRFID SmartTAG Touch 'n Go Opened toll systems Pay toll
		RRIM (Kwasa Damansara) Layby		Eastbound
		RRIM Toll Plaza Interchange	East Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Main Link Mont Kiara Kepong Kuala Lumpur	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance only
		U–Turn	Sungai Buloh Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport	Eastbound only
			East Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Main Link Damansara Perdana Kepong Kuala Lumpur	Southwest bound exit and northeast bound entrance bound only
Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (Kampung Melayu–Kota Damansara Link) PROLINTAS border limit
	3108	Surian Interchange	Persiaran Surian Northwest 3108A Jalan Teknologi Taman Sains Selangor Southeast (vehicles exceeding 5.4 meters in height are not allowed to access the exit) 3108B Kota Damansara Sunway Damansara	Semi directional T Interchange; no entry from northwest direction

External links

• Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Highway (DASH) website

Gallery

• 
  Highway construction to the east.
• 
  DASH Highway in Section 5 of Kota Damansara.
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  Kota Damansara Toll Plaza (previously Mutiara Damansara Toll Plaza).
• 
  DASH Expressway in Section 2, Kota Damansara.
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  Road junction sign at Surian Interchange.
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  Subang Airport Interchange.
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  Toll Plaza Provisional Building along Jalan PJU 5/1 southbound.
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  View of DASH Kota Damansara Toll Plaza from Salvia Apartment

References

1. "No approval for Damansara-Shah Alam highway yet, Selangor rep says". Malay Mail.
2. "Proposed Damansara-Shah Alam Elevated Expressway". Prolintas. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
3. "RRIM rubber estate to make way for development". The Star (Malaysia). Retrieved 15 Oct 2018.
4. "RM48b for four highways, MRT, LRT extension". Free Malaysia Today. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
5. "Stop work order issued on DASH construction site after mishap [NSTTV]". NST.com.my. 19 June 2021.
6. Meikeng, Yeun (19 June 2021). "Scaffolding collapse at DASH injures two workers". thestar.com.
7. "One of the workers injured in DASH scaffolding collapse dies". thestar.com. 21 June 2021.
8. Nurul Hidayah Bahaudin (20 June 2021). "Injured worker in DASH highway construction mishap dies". NST.com.my.
9. "Scaffolding Collapses At DASH Highway Construction Site, One Worker Dies". propertyguru.com.my. 21 June 2021.
10. "DASH Expressway records first fatality". thestar.com. 20 October 2022.
11. BERNAMA (20 October 2022). "DASH records first death". NST.com.my.
12. "KADAR TOL: Lebuhraya DASH". Retrieved 30 November 2022.