officially by the Minister of Works Ir Mohd Zin Mohamed on 9 January 2009. Three months later, the NKVE section was open to traffic on 30 April 2009. Built to accommodate 120,000 vehicles per day, this expressway will offer an attractive alternative route to Klang Valley residents, especially for those traveling from east to west and for those who want to go to the city centre. Progress Construction progress gallery Developments DUKE Extension Expressway Project The phase two development of the DUKE will be built by Ekovest Bhd and will start in two weeks at a construction cost of RM1.183 billion. Phase two, which will entail the construction of an elevated highway that will complement the existing DUKE, was to be completed in 2015. The DUKE extension will comprise two additional links, namely the Sri Damansara Link and the Tun Razak Link. Both links are proposed to have dual carriageways and the Tun Razak link will be about 9 kilometres in length while the Sri Damansara Link will be 7 kilometres long. The expressway will serve as a link between the Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1 (MRR1) and Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2 MRR2. Features Flyovers passing Segambut, Sentul and Setapak town. Sentul flyover sections with 132kv of Tenaga Nasional Berhad's (TNB) transmmision line (National Grid). During construction on 2007, the Cabinet directed the concessionaire Konsortium Lebuhraya Utara-Timur (KL) Sdn Bhd to share the TNB reserve in order to reduced land acquisition costs. In order to do this, the existing high tension pylons were replaced with monopoles, with the expressway running either side. Tolls The DUKE uses an open toll system. Batu, Sentul Pasar, Ayer Panas & Segambut toll plazas have fully Electronic Toll Collections (ETC). As part of an initiative to facilitate faster transaction at the Batu, Sentul Pasar, Ayer Panas & Segambut Toll Plazas, all toll transactions at four toll plazas on the DUKE are conducted electronically via Touch 'n Go cards, SmartTAGs or RFID tags starting January 2018. Toll rates (Starting 23 November 2017) Note: Toll charges can only be paid with the Touch 'n Go cards, SmartTAGs or RFID tags. Cash payment is not accepted. List of interchanges Phase 1 Duta–Sentul Pasar–Ulu Klang sections (Main Link) Greenwood–Sentul Pasar sections (Karak Link) DUKE Extension Expressway The DUKE Extension Expressway (E33) is an expressway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia connecting Sentul Pasar Interchange on the Duta-Ulu Klang