Kempas Highway or Jalan Kempas (Johor state route J3) is a major highway in

Johor Bahru Johor Bahru (), colloquially referred to as JB, is the capital city of the state of Johor, Malaysia. It is located at the southern end of Peninsular Malaysia,along the north bank of the Straits of Johor, opposite of the city-state Singapore. T ...

Johor Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan ...

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. It is the only state road in Malaysia constructed as a two-lane highway by an expressway concessionaire company,

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as a part of the North–South Expressway project. Kempas Highway was built to provide access to Johor Bahru from

North–South Expressway Southern Route The North–South Expressway Southern Route is an interstate controlled-access highway running parallel to the southwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The expressway forms the south section of the North–South Expressway, connecting the sta ...

via Exit 255 Kempas Interchange.

Route background

The Kilometre Zero of Kempas Highway starts at Jalan Kempas Lama junctions. At most sections, the Federal Route J3 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h. There are no alternate routes or sections with motorcycle lanes.

List of interchanges

Expressways and highways in Johor

References

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