LRT extensions to be completed this year – Liow

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The extension of the LRT network is among several key projects to transform and improve public transportation that is expected to be completed later this year, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said, reported by The Star.

“These will help provide efficient, comfortable, reliable and safe public transportation by 2020, especially for the estimated 10 million urbanites living in Greater Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley,” he said in the National Transformation Prog­ramme (NTP) Annual Re­­port 2015.

“The completion of the Perfor­mance Mo­­ni­­toring Hub System and Centralised Taxi Sup­port System later this year will serve as a plat­form to monitor all stage buses and taxis in Greater Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley.

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“Also in the pipeline are the MRT Sungai Buloh-Semantan network and KL Monorail capacity expansion projects by 2017, and the Integrated Cashless System to integrate ticketing systems by 2018,” he shared, while also mentioning the Pan Borneo Highway as a catalyst and a game changer for the economic growth in Sabah and Sarawak.

Just a recap and nothing new with regards to the Light Rail Transit extension project. It involves the two existing lines – Ampang Line and Kelana Jaya Line.

The Ampang Line extension, which is 18.1 km long with 11 new stations, starts from Sri Petaling station and passes through Kinrara, Puchong, and ends at Putra Heights. The latest four stations to open were IOI Puchong Jaya, Pusat Bandar Puchong, Taman Perindustrian Puchong and Bandar Puteri on March 31; leaving only the Puchong Perdana, Puchong Prima, and Putra Heights stations as work-in-progress.

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The Kelana Jaya Line extension, 17.4 km long with 13 new stations, will connect the current Kelana Jaya station to Putra Heights, where it will link up with the extended Ampang Line. The new KJ line will start operations on June 30 this year, Prasarana has announced. New Bombardier Innovia Metro 300 trainsets are already in town, and will serve the extended line when it goes live.

Earlier today, we read that public satisfaction over public transport services is on the uptrend, as indicated by the rise in the yearly Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) index from 48% in 2010 to 74% in 2015. It’s bound to get better, with all of the above coming on stream.

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Comments

  • Muniandy Periasamy on Apr 27, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    Can this Transport Minister also ask his boss Najib where is the 30% car price reduction Najib promised us 3 years ago? Transport Minister seems to kipas Najib and not push Najib to keep his promise to reduce car prices by 30%

    Malaysians are finding it hard to live. Cost of living is so high now. Most people are struggling because a huge chunk of their salary goes to the repayments of 2 cars in their houses. Food prices are skyrocketting and even TNB bills are now touching RM500 for the average house owner in KL.

    This Transport Minister should ask his boss where is the 30% car price reduction his boss has promised. Utter disgrace when Transport Minister keeps quiet.

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    • Hard life because i have 1 car and rent a house. on Apr 27, 2016 at 6:54 pm

      i like how hard life is when they have 2 cars and a house. I know life is hard now but will bitching about it in Paultan solve anything? im just wondering what do you expect to gain from writing all of that in a page like paultan?

      And please dont say its because you want to discuss or gather awareness for the subject, because i know for a fact you wont change your mind on the matter and second, we all know that car prices are not going to get cut anytime soon.

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      • Gargantia on Apr 28, 2016 at 9:50 am

        Bro Muniandy, look at most chinese are suffering even medicine(herbs) need to pay GST but he keep silent and car price are not under Transport Ministry… The dumno and AP system owners that secure the Ministry of International Trade and Industry aka “MITI” position. AP Cronies super rich yet none of the Rakyat comments…

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    • Evan Khan on Apr 27, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      Bro use public transport. Why spend so much on cars, buy axia enough.

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    • LeJohn on Apr 27, 2016 at 7:28 pm

      nah.. no way, you want him to be put in a barrel and then filled with cement or pushed down a building where the police says it is committed suicide ? Boss cakap apa, dia buat saja …

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    • Subaru Forrester from Rm211k to Rm145k. 31% price down. Now u can 14th floor turn left

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    • tokmoh. on Apr 27, 2016 at 9:55 pm

      BMW just announced harga turun, cukuuur

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  • Johan Kia on Apr 27, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    Look at this clown. Should invite him to my kids bday party to fool around soon.

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    • A better clown is at PJ Utara. He will only gip 80% effort but shamelessly demand full payment

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  • Marcus Lee on Apr 27, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    And these LRT lines continue to lose money over the years. Passenger traffic is so low during the afternoon and night.

    Before you build the LRT lines, please refer to Hong Kong urban planning & MRT.

    Schools, Offices, Condos, Apartments, Shopping Malls, Bus Stations, Business Districts, are just outside the MRT station exits. Different passenger groups could use the public transport at different hour. Hence the MRT is making money, unlike our Prasarana.

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    • ahmad kamal on Apr 27, 2016 at 10:44 pm

      Operationally, both MRT in Hong Kong and LRT in Malaysia are profitable. Same goes to Singapore MRT too. Have a nice day.

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  • seancorr (Member) on Apr 27, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    Do remember to resurface the roads that are under the lines!

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  • Jimmy on Apr 27, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Many of my Chinese friends cannot speak proper Mandarin, and can you expect them to write Chinese characters?

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  • azhar on Apr 28, 2016 at 8:24 am

    KIV future station?…must be the residents of kg sri aman protesting it

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  • I’m just hoping they complete it ASAP. The crappy road conditions are adding more cost to my already high car maintenance costs. Damaged suspension, tyres etc from all the potholes and uneven roads.

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    • stasta on Apr 28, 2016 at 2:36 pm

      asap your head. it was originally schedule to be completed in 2015.

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  • Why these extension of the lrt line are still not completed?..supposed to be ready last YEAR!!!

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  • The so call end stop of this LRT doesn’t join with existing LRT stop. This shows the intelligence of our government… and how viable this pieces of public transport is… asking for a complete public transport to KL is too much to ask… or the government seem to good for the people

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