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Jalan Damansara
Major junctions
North end	Bandar Sri Damansara
Major intersections	Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1 (Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar) Jalan Maarof Damansara–Puchong ExpresswayDamansara–Puchong Expressway Sprint ExpresswaySprint Expressway
Southwest end	Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin
Location
Country	Malaysia
Primary destinations	Bandar Utama Taman Tun Dr Ismail Damansara Town Centre Damansara Heights Bukit Persekutuan KL Sentral
Highway system
Highways in Malaysia Expressways Federal State

Jalan Damansara is a major road inKuala Lumpur,Malaysia. One of the oldest roads in the city, it currently serves as a link between the Damansara sections ofPetaling Jaya andKuala Lumpur (fromBandar Sri Damansara through to the Petaling Jaya suburbs ofBandar Utama andDamansara Utama and then to the heart of Kuala Lumpur through its suburbs ofTaman Tun Dr. Ismail andBukit Damansara).

Jalan Damansara was named after a small harbour-like settlement, which no longer exists, that was located near the mouth of theDamansara River along theKlang River. The harbour was known as Labuhan Sara –Labuhan means a place for ships to anchor, whilesara can be taken to mean "departure" or "embarkation" (related to the wordbersara meaning retirement). The name Damansara may have been originally Indian; inHindustani,daman means "foothills" whilesara may mean either "a mansion of wealth", or "water" inSanskrit.^[1]

Damansara Village was a popular place for ships to anchor for those who used the Klang River as a means of travel between the port town of Klang and the mining settlement of Kuala Lumpur. Although many boats can go up to the junction ofGombak River and Klang River in Kuala Lumpur, thesteam boats used by the British to cut the travel time between Klang and Kuala Lumpur could only travel up to Damansara. In order to reach Kuala Lumpur, travellers would then need to traverse overland via a track, established in 1873, connecting Damansara and Kuala Lumpur through the jungles and hills of the Damansara (including the area currently known asDamansara Heights). Around the mid-1870s, after steam boats were introduced, construction began on an unmetalled road between the harbour of Damansara toBrickfields and Kuala Lumpur. This road would become known as Damansara Road. The road was 15.5 miles long, and Brickfields at the end of the road then become known asBatu Limabelas meaning "15th mile". By 1878, 12 miles of the earth road had been completed, with the remaining 3.5 miles built byYap Ah Loy.^[2]

In 1880, the state capital ofSelangor was moved to Kuala Lumpur. Following this, In 1895, the existing Damansara Road was extended to link the suburb ofBrickfields (then the only exit and entry point into KL) and the city centre of Kuala Lumpur. The roads currently known today as Jalan Raja (facing theSultan Abdul Samad Building) and Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin was known as a stretch of road called the Gombak Road, named after its crossing over the Gombak River. The extension included the Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin stretch of the then Gombak Road and Cenotaph Road (today known as Jalan Tugu), ending at a wooden bridge crossing the Klang River at Market Street (today known asLeboh Pasar Besar). This linked the then Damansara Road to Brickfields Road (known today as Jalan Travers), which ran to Brickfields.^[1]

Not much remains of the original Damansara Road today. It eventually became a pioneer road of theDamansara–Puchong Expressway and theDamansara Link of theSprint Expressway. Because sections of the road parts of these highways, Jalan Damansara currently exists in fragments at several locations. The intervening sections of the original road now link with stretches of the road that form these highways at different locations:

• Near Bukit Lanjan where it continues alongside the Damansara–Puchong Expressway (through the Kota Damansara sections) and then merges completely with the highway until it diverges into its original course through the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Taman Tun.
• In the suburbs of Taman Tun where Jalan Damansara exists as a short residential road cordoned off from the rest of the existing road, off Jalan Burhanuddin Helmi.
• Near Taman Tun where it merges with the Sprint Highway this time through the Damansara area of Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur. It then diverges from the highway (near the Semantan interchange at Pusat Bandar Damansara) through Bukit Damansara where it connects with the MRR1 and then ends at Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin (near theKuala Lumpur railway station)

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km	Exit	Interchange/junctions	To	Remarks
		Sri Damansara–TTDI	see also Damansara–Puchong ExpresswayDamansara–Puchong Expressway
		Bukit Lanjan–Penchala–TTDI	West Bukit Lanjan Jalan Bukit Lanjan 2 Jalan Bukit Lanjan 4 Jalan Bukit Lanjan 4/1 Jalan Bukit Lanjan 6 Wisma Mofaz Petronas Kampung Sungai Penchala Jalan Sungai Penchala TTDI Jalan Burhanuddin Helmi	North bound
		TTDI-LDP	Damansara–Puchong ExpresswayDamansara–Puchong Expressway Southwest Kelana Jaya Petaling Jaya Puchong Putrajaya Cyberjaya	Interchange
		TTDI town centre	Shell Petronas DBKL branch office	South bound
		Taman Tun Dr Ismail	East Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad Taman Tun Dr Ismail PlazaVADS(formerly MenaraIBM) Menara LGB TTDI wet market	T-junctions
		SS 20	West Jalan SS 20/20 Jalan SS 20/21 KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital	North bound
		Jalan Damansara Lama Exit	Menara Glomac	North bound
		Jalan Wan Kadir	East Jalan Wan Kadir	T-junctions
		P&RTTDI MRT station	P&RTTDI MRT station 9
		TTDI–Damansara Link	Southeast Sprint ExpresswaySprint Expressway (Damansara Link) Petaling Jaya Damansara Town Centre Kuala Lumpur Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC)	Junctions
		SS 20	West Jalan SS 20/20 Jalan SS 20/21	T-junctions
		SS 20–Damansara Town Centre	see also Sprint ExpresswaySprint Expressway (Damansara Link)
		Damansara Town Centre Damansara City		Trumpet interchange
		Lower Damansara	East Taman SA Jalan Buluh Perindu West Damansara Heights International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Institute of Islamic Banking & Finance (IIiBF) Lorong Mempoyan Jalan Jelutong	North bound
		Instac
		Lower Damansara	South Bukit Persekutuan Jalan Terrenganu Jalan Pulau Pinang	North bound
		Galeria Sri Perdana	Galeria Sri Perdana	T-junctions
		Lower Damansara–Muzium Negara	see also Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1
		Muzium Negara–Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin	see also Jalan Bangsar

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