Saturday April 15, 2006
KLIG proposes four new lines for monorail system
By LEONG SHEN-LI
KUALA LUMPUR: KL Infrastructure Group Bhd, the company which operates the monorail here, has submitted a proposal to construct four new lines in the Klang Valley with a total length of 71km.
KLIG chairman Datuk Ahmad Sa’adi said the project was estimated to cost RM4.5bil and would take six years to complete.
“We presented this proposal to the Government two months ago,” he said yesterday.
Ahmad said the four new lines were the 21km Petaling Jaya line, 18km Subang Jaya line, 19km Sungai Buloh line and 13km Cheras line. The four lines will have 47 stations.
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All four lines will integrate with the existing light rail transit (LRT) and the KTM Komuter rail systems.
“We expect the new lines to ferry some 400,000 passengers per day,” he said.
He added that when the entire network was completed, the existing lines would also experience an increase in usage because more people would find it convenient to use public transport.
“We should see another 320,000 passengers using the entire rail system daily on top of the current 340,000 passengers,'' he said.
He said this would help the Government achieve the Ninth Malaysia Plan target of a 30:70 public to private transport ratio for the Klang Valley.
Ahmad said under the proposal, MTrans Holdings Sdn Bhd, the holding company of KLIG, would manufacture 62 new monorail trains for the new lines.
“The new trains will have four cars each and carry at least 400 people,” he said.
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