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Federal Route 1
Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak (Sarawak First Trunk Road)
Route information
Part of AH150
Length	1,077.1 km (669.3 mi)
Existed	2013–present
History	Completed in 2024
Major junctions
West end	Telok Melano
East end	FT 1 Malaysia Federal Route 1 (Sabah) in Merapok
Section 1
West end	Sematan
Major intersections	FT 21 Tebedu Highway FT 25 Batang Ai Highway FT 800 Jalan Tanjung Kidurong FT 801 Kuching Bypass FT 803 Bakun Highway
East end	Sungai Tujoh
Section 2
West end	Kuala Lurah
East end	Pandaruan
Section 3
West end	Mengkalap
East end	FT 1 Malaysia Federal Route 1 (Sabah) in Merapok
Location
Country	Malaysia
Primary destinations	Kuching Serian Sri Aman Sarikei Sibu Bintulu Limbang
Highway system
Highways in Malaysia Expressways Federal State

The Sarawak section of the Federal Route 1, Asian Highway Route AH 150, also known as Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak or Sarawak First Trunk Road, is a 1077-km federal highway in Sarawak, Malaysia, making the highway as the longest component of the Malaysian portion of the larger Pan Borneo Highway network. Construction of the highway began in 2014 after Sarawak government being pressured by Sarawakian to exit Malaysia when they see no proper big highway connecting Sarawak after became a member of the federation of Malaysia for 55 years with all the natural resources being extract and sell by Malaysia Federal Government.

The combined length of the Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak and its Sabahan counterpart forms the longest federal highway in Malaysia, with the total length of 1,503 km.

The Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak is notable for having three separate segments, sandwiched by two segments of Bruneian Pan-Borneo Highway. The Federal Route 1 was built in sections, comprising 92 sections altogether. Generally, all other federal and state highways in Sarawak serve as tributaries of the Federal Route 1. The highway is the only east-west oriented highway in Sarawak and links most of the division capitals in Sarawak except Kapit and Mukah. The sections from Miri to Limbang and to Lawas are connected by Brunei highway networks. At the Sarawak-Sabah border at Merapok, motorists must pass an immigration checkpoint to enter Sabah and vice versa. The highway continues as Malaysia Federal Route 1 (Sabah) in Sindumin.

History

The Sarawak Pan-Borneo Highway was built due to the lack of the intercity highway network in Sarawak. Initially, the intercity highway plan in Sarawak only existed after the Second World War ended in 1945, after Sarawak was ceded to Britain to become a British Crown Colony.

The construction of the first intercity trunk highway in Sarawak was commenced in 1965, dubbed as the "First Trunk Road". Most of the highway network in Sarawak was constructed within the decades of 1960s to 1980s. The Lawas–Merapok–Sindumin section was completed in 1981 while the final missing link from Sibu to Bintulu was completed in 1985. However, the highway had not been fully paved with asphalt yet at that time; it was only by the end of Sixth Malaysia Plan (RMK6) in 1995 that the FT1 highway in Sarawak was fully paved.

Before 1996, all routes in the Pan-Borneo Highway network in Malaysia, including Sarawak Pan-Borneo Highway, were state highways. After the Federal Roads Act 1959 was made effective in Sabah and Sarawak in 1984, those highways were re-gazetted as federal highways in 1996 with the route number of FT1 (from Sematan to Kudat through Brunei), FT13 (Mile 32 Sandakan to Tawau) and FT22 (Tamparuli to Sandakan). Those highways were later gazetted as a part of Asian Highway Network Route AH150.

Although some sections had been upgraded to divided highways, the Sarawak Pan-Borneo Highway was notorious for its poor condition in many sections. The overall condition in many sections of the Malaysian section of the Highway was poor with many potholes, because most sections of the highway were built with standards as low as JKR R3 (design speed limit: 70 km/h; minimum lane width: 3.0 m). A study to upgrade the entire highway to a super two highway under JKR R5 standard (design speed limit: 100 km/h; minimum lane width: 3.5 m) was done, which was expected to cost RM16 billion. Ultimately, the Malaysian federal government had opted to upgrade the Pan-Borneo Highway to a divided highway. The upgrade works of the Sarawak Pan-Borneo Highway to a divided highway is expected to be completed by 2023, with the overall cost of RM27 billion including its Sabahan counterparts.

Sections of the Federal Route 1 in Sarawak

There are 93 sections that form the entire Federal Route 1 in Sarawak:-

See also

• Pan Borneo Highway
  • Malaysia Federal Route 1 (Sabah)
  • Malaysia Federal Route 22
  • Malaysia Federal Route 13 (Sabah)

References

1. ^ Senarai Jalan Persekutuan Utama Malaysia Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Malay) - Malaysian Public Works Department. Accessed 2011-5-14.
2. ^ Hill, R.D.; Bray, Jennifer M. (1976). Geography and the Environment in Southeast Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789622090095.
3. ^ Mody, Ashoka (August 1997). Infrastructure Strategies in East Asia: The Untold Story. Washington, D.C.: Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. p. 35. ISBN 9780821340271.
4. Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (17 November 1981). Sempena Pembukaan Rasmi Lebuhraya Papar ke Sindumin (Speech). Papar-Sindumin Highway FT1 inaugural speech. Sabah, Malaysia. Retrieved 13 March 2013. (in Malay)
5. Loi, Teck Hui (16 August 2017). Practising Corporate Social Responsibility in Malaysia: A Case Study in an Emerging Economy. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 76. ISBN 978-3-319-62475-4.
6. "Asian Highway Database: AH Network in Member Countries". United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
7. ERIA Study Team. "Current Status of ASEAN Transport Sector" (PDF). ASEAN Strategic Transport Plan 2011–2015. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat and ERIA: 3-1 – 3-95. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
8. Zaain Zin (17 December 2011). "Naik taraf jalan Pan Borneo RM16b". Utusan Malaysia. Retrieved 14 January 2012. (in Malay)
9. ^ Wong, Jack (17 December 2011). "Study gets underway for proposed upgrading of much-maligned Pan Borneo Highway". The Star. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
10. Sinyang, Angeline (2015-04-01). "Pan Borneo Sarawak dilancar". Utusan Malaysia (in Malay). Retrieved 2017-10-19.
11. "Lebuhraya Pan Borneo Sarawak dijangka siap pada 2023 - Rosnah" (in Malay). Berita Harian. 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2017-10-19.

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FELDA/FELCRA Federal Roads (Peninsular Malaysia)	1002 1149 1154 1157 1207 1208 1265 1266 1283 1384 1388 1393 1397 1409 1423 1485 1486 1487 1488 1498 1500 1510 1518 1527 1531 1533 1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 1572 1579 1689 1739 2484 2486 2489
Industrial Federal Roads (Peninsular Malaysia)	3000 3001 3050 3051 3052 3053 3110 3111 3112 3113 3114 3115 3145 3416 3147 3148 3149 3150 3151 3152 3208 3209 3210 3211 3212 3213 3214 3215 3216 3217 3218 3265 3374 3484 3485 3486 3487 3488 3489 3684 3685 3686 3739 3740
Institutional Facilities Federal Roads (Peninsular Malaysia)	313 315 317 321 341 342 343 344 345 347 361 362 399 401 420 421 422 423 424 432 433 434 435 436 459 479 480
Main Federal Roads (Sarawak)	1 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 1-10 1-11 1-12 1-13 1-14 1-15 1-16 1-82
Other Federal Roads (Sarawak)	21 25 33 52 800 801 900A 900B 900C 901 902 903-1 903-2 904 905 906 907 908 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 921 2105 3101 8302
Main Federal Roads (Sabah)	1 13 22 500 501 502 503
FELDA/FELCRA Federal Roads (Sabah)	1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806
Institutional Facilities Federal Roads (Sabah)	600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608
Main Federal Roads (Labuan)	700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739

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