Federal Route 58, or Jalan Batak Rabit-Teluk Intan-Bidor, is a

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state linking Federal Route 1 at

Bidor Bidor (Chinese: 美羅) is a town and mukim in Batang Padang District, southern Perak, Malaysia. Geography Bidor is located 59 km southeast from state capital Ipoh and 116 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur. It is south of Tapah, north of ...

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Route background

The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 58 is located at

Batak Rabit Batak Rabit is a small town in Hilir Perak District, Perak, Malaysia. The town is located near Teluk Intan Teluk Intan is a town in Hilir Perak District, Perak, Malaysia. It is the district capital and largest town in Hilir Perak district ...

, at its interchange with the Federal Route 5, the main trunk road of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

History

In October 1995, the overhead bridge across the railway near Kampung Baru Bidor Stesen collapsed after a goods train jumped rail and crashed onto the beam supporting the bridge. As a temporary measure, a one-lane

Bailey bridge A Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed in 1940–1941 by the British for military use during the Second World War and saw extensive use by British, Canadian and American military engineering units. A ...

was erected while a permanent concrete bridge was constructed from 1997. The new bridge opened to traffic in March 1998 and the Bailey bridge was dismantled. In the early days, this route only had two lanes. However, in 1995, the stretch between the traffic lights junction at

town center to the traffic lights junction to Federal Route 109 was upgraded into a four-lane, dual carriageway road. In 2004, the stretch between Federal Route 109 to Selabak Estate was also upgraded into a four-lane, dual carriageway, as was the stretch between the traffic lights junction to Jalan Kampung Banjar and the traffic lights junction at Federal Route 5.

Features

*The road is mainly a two-lane road except sections of the road several kilometers from

where it features a 4-lane dual carriageway road. At most sections, the Federal Route 58 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h. There is one alternate route: Bidor Bypass.

List of junctions and towns

References

{{Malaysian Federal Roads Malaysian Federal Roads