Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway

Malaysia road routebox
code= JKR|68
road= 68
length-km= --
direction= North - South
start= Genting Highlands
destinations= Genting Highlands
Gohtong Jaya
Institut Aminuddin Baki
Genting Sempah
Batang Kali
Ulu Yam
end= Genting Sempah
construction-date= 1963
completion-date= 1966
junctions= MES-E|8 JKR|2 Karak Expressway
JKR|68 Federal route 68
JKR|B119 Jalan Batang Kali-Genting Highlands

The Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway, Federal route JKR|68 is a main highway from Genting Sempah to Genting Highlands, Malaysia's famous mountain resort and entertainment parks.

History

Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway was used to be a private highway owned by Genting Highlands Resort. The construction of the highway was regarded as one of the most astonishing engineering project in Malaysia. However, frequent landslides at the highway during recent years have caused the highway to be recommissioned as a federal road by Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) in 2005.

Events

*30 June 1995 - 20 people were killed in the landslide at Genting Highlands slip road near Karak Highway.
* 16 July 1996 - A bus, ferrying a group of factory workers and their families on a holiday excursion, plunged into a 120m-deep ravine at km 1 of the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway near the Genting Highlands Resort, killing 17 of them. Six were children.

Features

One-way Genting Highlands bound and one way Genting Sempah bound

Bus safety stopping point

The bus safety stopping point are also provided here especially on the one way Genting Sempah bound.

Climbing route to Genting Highlands during Le Tour de Langkawi every year

List of Junctions

Original route