High traffic volume due to long weekend

KUALA LUMPUR: Traffic at three major highways reached almost 1.5 million vehicles on Deepavali eve.

Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department (JSPT) director Comm Datuk Mat Kassim Karim said the number of vehicles on the North-South Highway was 1.27 million, on the Kuala Lumpur-Karak expressway it was 150,936 vehicles, while Phase 1 of the East Coast Highway recorded 53,451 vehicles on Wednesday.