Around the mid-1870s, after steam boats were introduced, construction began on an unmetalled road between the harbour of Damansara to Brickfields and Kuala Lumpur.

Following this, In 1895, the existing Damansara Road was extended to link the suburb of Brickfields (then the only exit and entry point into KL) and the city centre of Kuala Lumpur.

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 as Leboh Pasar Besar).

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: TTDI wet market Damansara City International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Institute of Islamic Banking & Finance (IIiBF) Lorong MempoyanJalan Jelutong