Tracking the pulse of the Pan-Borneo Highway

Rethinking Sabah's Arterial Spine

For half a century, the primary overland route connecting Sabah's capital to its agricultural and timber heartlands consisted of narrow, unlit two-lane roads cutting through unstable geological zones.

The Pan-Borneo Highway project is fundamentally re-engineering this relationship. As Phase 1A packages near completion between Papar, Donggongon, and the interior junctions, travel times that once took four to five hours under heavy rain are being cut by nearly 40%.