The Tawau–Keningau Highway is one of the major federal highways in Sabah, Malaysia that connects the main city of Tawau to Keningau along the village in the Interior Division. Built in 2004 and expect to complete in mid-2007, it was to shortened the distance time from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau. It was part of the Pan Borneo Highway phase 3.
The section runs from Kalabakan to Sapulut which is about long, was originally a gravel or essentially a logging roads before upgraded to a two-lanes paved road, though the highway was quickly riddled with potholes, sink holes and uneven road shoulder on certain road segment due to frequent use by logging truck. It is a rugged, mountainous and remote highways, filled with nearby logging tracks and estate.
History Dec 5, 1966, The Keningau-Sapulut Road was started by the Australian Army Engineering Squadrons as an emergency project during the Indonesian Confrontation against Malaysia. They have worked on the project for the past two years and have completed sixty miles of the 76-miles project when their 22nd Construction Squadron pulled out recently as part of the post-confrontation withdrawal of Commonwealth Forces.
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See also Pan-Borneo Highway Federal Route 13 (Sabah)
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