Rapid KL has announced that it has taken delivery of its first train set for the Light Rail Transit 3 (LRT3) line project, which is scheduled to begin operations from February, 2024. The train set is currently located at the CRRC Rolling Stock Center (Malaysia) facility in Batu Gajah, Perak for interior installation work of its three cars.
According to Rapid KL, the LRT3 line will be serviced by 22 three-car train sets that are supplied by China’s CRRC Corporation. As of June 30, 2020, the project, which spans 37.8 km, is 33.12% completed and the company expects it to be fully finished by February 28, 2024.
Following the current plan, the LRT3 line will have 20 stations linking Bandar Utama to Johan Setia, the latter located in Klang. Trains plying the route will pass through interchange stations located in Glenmarie (Kelana Jaya Line), while at Bandar Utama, commuters can switch onto the MRT Kajang Line.
When the project was first announced in 2016, 26 stations were originally planned, but a revision in 2018 resulted in the cancellation of the Persiaran Hishamuddin station, while five other stations – Bandar Botanik, Bukit Raja, Raja Muda, Temasya and Tropicana – were listed as provisional.
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Typo error (Kelana Kaya). It should be Kelana Jaya.
Temsaya or temasya?
Do the trains have drivers?
Modern trains nowadays are driverless however there is controls for manual override, something that was used in that LRT accident few weeks ago.
Only a gagal gomen would cancel building stations at Bandar Botanik, Bukit Raja, Temasya, and Tropicana areas looking at how massive the catchment areas it could have served. Instead people there will just see these trains whizz past by wonder what might have been if they’d made the correct decision back then.
And yet the banyak success government before that routed the original LRT (STAR) to low throughput areas filled with their voters right? Sudah lupa ka?
Those low throughput areas are now high throughput. Apparently banyak success government were thinking 10-20 years ahead while banyak failure government were thinking 10-20 backwards when they decided to cut the stations.
BS. Why did it take 20 years to extend Putra LRT to Subang or build MRT to Cheras when it was already high throughput in the 90’s. If you want to talk about forward planning and not politicking, look at the whole picture. The line is being built, stations added later. Different cost to not building the line in the first place.
Let’s hope they maintain it well to last 15 to 20 years as per global standards. If they recondition them at 15, it can add another 10 years. None of their LRT trains have lasted that long.
Depends on which line, those kelana line 2 car trainsets had been operating since the start so they’re about 23 years old now.