Jalan Cheras led the way to the village of Cheras. The village is said to have received its name from a derivation of the word teras or tras – which is known to mean the hard core of a tree trunk. The Chinese referred to the village as “Chiu Lai”, after the large banana plantation over there.
The overcrowding population along Loke Yew Road and Birch Road in the early 1900s forced a large number of settlers to build their homes to the north of Cheras Road. Today part of the road falls within the jurisdiction of Kuala Lumpur while the other part falls under Selangor.
